HOSPITAL ASSAULT
• Centralia police were called about 10:30 p.m. yesterday to Providence Centralia Hospital for an alleged assault on hospital staff. The case was referred to prosecutors for a possible charge of third-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FUEL THEFT CENTRALIA
• Centralia police took a report yesterday from the 3600 block of Northpark Drive where someone stole gas from a company vehicle that was parked inside a fenced compound, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FRAUD IN CHEHALIS
• Police were called yesterday by a Chehalis resident who said someone tried to file a tax return using their name and social security number.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday regarding attempted fraudulent charges to a credit card associated with the 1400 block of Northwest Airport Road.
SHOPLIFT OF ALCOHOL
• Chehalis police were called to Safeway on South Market Boulevard about 10:40 p.m. yesterday after a male left with several bottles of liquor in his backpack. He was not located, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
WARRANT ARREST AT WINDOW
• An anonymous report about the location of a wanted person – the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office warrant of the week posted on their Facebook page yesterday – led law enforcement to Packwood where after knocking a door of a house, the subject was caught crawling out the window. Ryan A. Justice, 27, of Randle, was taken into custody at the 100 block of Edmonds Road yesterday afternoon and booked into the Lewis County Jail for his warrant from the state Department of Corrections, his warrant for escape from community custody and his warrant for failing to appear in Lewis County District Court for a fourth-degree assault case, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
COLLISION
• A 43-year-old Olympia woman was hospitalized after her Honda Accord was rear-ended on U.S. Highway 12 in Randle yesterday, while she was making a left turn onto Kindle Road Troopers called just after 8 a.m. report a 2002 Buick Rendezvous was traveling at a high rate of speed when it hit the car. Both vehicles were totaled, according to the Washington State Patrol. Nina R. Sebastin, of Olympia, was transported to Morton General Hospital, according to the state patrol. Shannon K. Wagner, 40, from Moses Lake was reportedly uninjured. Speed and inattention were blamed, and Wagner was to be issued a citation for second-degree negligent driving, the investigating trooper reports.
• A 50-year-old Rochester resident was injured early yesterday morning when his his pickup truck left the roadway to the left shoulder and struck a cable barrier on eastbound state Route 8 near Mox Chehalis Road in Grays Harbor County. Troopers responding about 3:40 a.m. to the scene about seven miles east of Elma report James E. Ammons was transported to Summit Pacific Medical Center, according to the Washington State Patrol. Ammons had been wearing a seatbelt, according to the state patrol. Alcohol or drugs are not suspected, but the cause of the wreck remains under investigation, the state patrol reports.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, theft, obstructing, driving without a license; responses for alarms, vandalism, hit and run, protection order violation, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, a lost white ferret … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter