ROBBERY IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road about 6:40 a.m. today on a report of several females working together to steal an individual’s wallet. The case is being investigated, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FRAUD
• An unknown suspect accessed another person’s credit card online in two cases reported to Centralia police on Friday morning. One was related to the 1400 block of View Avenue and the other to the 1000 block of North Schueber Road, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• An individual report to police late Friday night that someone got into his unlocked vehicle and stole his iPhone at the 200 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia.
NO MONEY FOR CAB
• Centralia police responded about 3:30 a.m. today to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road after a report a woman got a taxi ride and failed to pay the fare. Janie S. Weibling, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree theft, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called yesterday to the 300 block of East Main Street in Centralia to take a report of tires getting slashed on a vehicle overnight.
DRYER LINT TUBE IGNITES DAMAGING CHEHALIS RESIDENCE
• Fire broke out in a laundry room in a home on Gails Avenue in Chehalis on Friday evening causing an estimated $20,000 damage, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Firefighters called about 6 p.m. learned the resident, home with his kids, had smelled smoke and heard the alarms. Arriving crews had to tear into a wall and the floor to extinguish the flames, Firefighter Derrick Paul said. It started in the dryer’s lint tube, Paul said. “The only thing good I can say is it happened during the day when they were home and every smoke detector in the home was working,” he said.
TOUTLE RESIDENTS FIND PILES OF DEAD, ROTTING REPTILES
• A Toutle woman found a huge pile of dead and rotting reptiles while on a walk in the woods near her home, some skinned, some missing their heads and others with their guts hanging out, according to The (Longview) Daily News. Reporter Lauren Kronebusch writes that Shaylee Antila and her husband discovered snakes, lizards and even what they described as the carcasses of four-foot long crocodiles; and the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office thinks they were put there within the last week.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, possession of marijuana; responses for vandalism, misdemeanor theft, collisions on city streets … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter