BURGLARY CHEHALIS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that someone stole two large sheets of stainless steel being stored in the parking lot area of a Chehalis business, valued at about $3,600. A deputy called to Mohawk Industries on the 200 block of Downie Road on Wednesday learned the items vanished sometime during the previous four days, according to the sheriff’s office. One piece was circular and 76 inches in diameter and other was 80 inches by 100 inches, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that someone broke into an office building at the 1500 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis and attempted to break into a safe. It happened sometime between last Tuesday and the following day, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. Damage to the safe and a window is estimated at $750.
PHONE CALL ISSUES
• Chehalis police were contacted on Friday regarding a suspected telephone scam involving someone purporting to be from the IRS. It was the typical threat the woman would be arrested if she didn’t pay up, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. The IRS doesn’t operate that way, Wilson said.
• Chehalis police took a report from the Lewis County Assessor’s Office that an individual on the phone who was upset suggested someone needed to get a gun and shoot the employees there. They just wanted police to be aware of it, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said of the report from last Wednesday morning.
SHERIFF’S OFFICE: CHAINSAW THEFT SOLVED
• A 47-year-old Mineral man who learned he was facing possible charges in connection with a Winlock burglary broke out of the Nisqually Jail because he didn’t want to be brought back to Lewis County, the sheriff’s office reported this morning. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said a week ago on Sunday, a deputy went to interview the suspect in jail about the early November theft of two chainsaws and a winch from a metal building on the 400 block of state Route 505. A few hours later, deputies got a call from Thurston County dispatchers who said Tim C. Saterdal had escaped, and was last seen scaling a fence and running off into the woods, Brown said. He was subsequently located, with severe lacerations and other injuries, and told authorities he’d left because he didn’t want to come back to Lewis County, she said. The case involving Saterdal and the stolen equipment from Winlock is being referred to prosecutors for possible charges of second-degree theft and second-degree burglary. Brown said the reason he was arrested on Nov. 10 and locked up in the Nisqually Public Safety Correctional Facility, was a police officer in Roy was responding to a fire call, and Saterdal thinking he was getting pulled over drove recklessly to get away.
COLLISIONS
• A 30-year-old Toledo man was arrested on Friday night for reporting his Jeep Grand Cherokee was stolen, after deputies concluded he had been the one driving it when it wrecked earlier on the 300 block of Leonard Road in Onalaska. Sean D. Leonard was booked into the Lewis County Jail for making a false statement to a public servant, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle sustained major damage but Leonard didn’t seem to have any injuries, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A young woman was hospitalized with back pain after the car in which she was a passenger left Interstate 5 south of K-Mart in Chehalis, crossed over Northwest Louisiana Avenue and crashed through the fence surrounding the Chehalis-Centralia Airport on Thursday afternoon, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disputes, harassment, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation, counterfeit $20 bills, parking lot fender benders, wrecks on county roads … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
“Tim C. Saterdal….He was subsequently located, with severe lacerations and other injuries,”
Now that’s the best news I’ve read in weeks!