ATTEMPTED ELUDING IN STATE-OWNED CAR LANDS DSHS WORKER IN JAIL, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS
• A DSHS worker was jailed last night after his vehicle was clocked at 78 mph on U.S. Highway 12 and he told a deputy he tried to get away because he was “driving a state-owned vehicle,” according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Shaw C. Seaman, 39, of Olympia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempted eluding, a class C felony, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust. It happened about 9 p.m. just west of Morton where the speed limit is 55 mph, Aust said. After Seaman was spotted by the deputy, Seaman attempted to drive up a logging road, according to the deputy’s report. He told the deputy he was returning from a conference in Tri-Cities and was in a hurry to get home, Aust said.
TWO MINOR BIKE VERSUS CAR ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY IN TWIN CITIES
• Firefighters in Centralia and Chehalis were both called to car versus bike accidents on Monday but nobody was seriously hurt. The Chehalis Fire Department was called just before 9 a.m. to Southwest Cascade Avenue where a bicyclist came out of an alley couldn’t stop and ran into a car. The teenage-age male got “just a bump”, according to the fire department. At about 1 p.m., a bicyclist and an SUV came together in a very slow-speed collision along Harrison Avenue near Country Cousin restaurant, according to the Riverside Fire Authority. The rider had walked away before firefighters got there, said fire Capt. Erik Olson, and they looked for him but could not find him.
PISTOL SEIZED AFTER ROCHESTER FELON SHOOTS AT LIVING ROOM FLOOR
• A Rochester man was arrested Monday after a sheriff’s deputy learned he had reportedly fired “about three rounds” into the floor of his home the day before while he and his wife had friends visiting. Thomas J.E. McMaster, 59, was arrested for second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm; as he is a felon and not allowed to have guns, Lt. Chris Mealy of the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said this morning. A deputy went to the home on the 8000 block of 183rd Avenue Southwest yesterday to do a so-called welfare check after an anonymous caller to 911 described what had happened the day before, Mealy said. A .22 caliber pistol was confiscated, according to Mealy.
SCUFFLE AT BAILEY’S IGA IN ROCHESTER ENDS WITH TWO IN JAIL
• A pair of Oakville residents were handcuffed after a suspected shoplifting incident and a scuffle in Rochester on Friday night in which store security personnel had to grab a shopping cart carrying two children as it rolled toward a lane of traffic in the store parking lot, after a 27-year-old mother allegedly walked away from the cart. Anastasia L. Kinkade, 27, was arrested and booked for reckless endangerment. It started when security personnel tried to question her about a $2.55 bottle of iodine they suspected her of shoplifting, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. It all happened about 9:30 p.m. at Bailey’s IGA on the 10,300 block of U.S. Highway 12, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said on Monday. Randy M. Kinkade, 48, got involved, and after he put his hand on the shoulder of the security person, the unnamed security person took the senior Kinkade to the ground, Mealy said. He was booked for felony harassment, as he was allegedly heard making a threat to kill the store employee.
THEFTS, AND MORE THEFTS
• The sheriff’s office took a report on Monday of a forcible break-in to a Randle-area residence in which somebody removed two buckets of hand tools valued at about $200. The deputy was told it happened sometime between June 4 and Saturday at the home on the 600 block of Skinner Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this morning reported a stolen 2003 Polaris 500 ATV was recovered and Ryan M. Weigant, 23, of Silver Creek, was arrested and booked on Saturday for second-degree burglary and trafficking in stolen property. The ATV was taken from an Onalaska area-shop on the 100 block of Fickett Road sometime between last Tuesday and Friday, according to the report to the sheriff’s office.
• Centralia police on Monday took a report somebody entered a building on the 1700 block of Taylor Street and stole a stereo.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter