FARM EQUIPMENT MISSING
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday that a $28,000 bailer was stolen from the 800 block of Oyler Road in Onalaska. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said the red and yellow New Holland model 570 bailer was last seen two weeks ago. She is asking anyone with information on the piece of farm machinery to call Lewis County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-748-6422 or call 911.
BURGLARY IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police responded to a burglary yesterday morning on the 500 block of East Main Street. Missing from a residence was a television, a computer and money, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ARREST FOR ASSAULT
• Somebody heard yelling coming from a Centralia motel room drawing police officers who arrested a 34-year-old man for allegedly choking his girlfriend on Wednesday. Jeffrey J. Lucas of Centralia, was arrested and booked for second-degree assault after the approximately 11 a.m. call to the Motel 6 on the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue, according to Centralia police. Officer John Panco said a little bindle of methamphetamine was found in Lucas’s possession. The victim, a woman in her late 30s from the local area, was seen by medics but not seriously injured enough to be hospitalized, according to Panco.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday to Northwest Park Street and told a male broke a window on a vehicle and took something.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter