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PACKWOOD RESIDENT JAILED FOR NAKEDNESS
• A Packwood man who reportedly made a habit of standing nude in his windows with the drapes open as well as walking around outside him home entirely unclothed was arrested yesterday. The sheriff’s office says his residence is directly across the street from the Timberline Resort, at a busy intersection. A deputy was called back on April 8 to the 13,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 when alarmed employees of the motel complained, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the situation was close to a school bus stop as well. Law enforcement made several attempts to contact the subject, who didn’t come to his door or return their phone calls, according to the sheriff’s office. The man, whose full name is simply Vinyasi, was seen driving yesterday, pulled over and arrested for indecent exposure, according to Brown. Vinyasi, 57, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, she said. His vehicle was impounded.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 8 o’clock yesterday morning about a vehicle stolen from the 300 block of South Street. Missing is a maroon-colored Chevrolet Blazer with a license plate reading AJN9306, according to the Centralia Police Department.
STOLEN LANDSCAPING
• Some pulled up a pair of two-foot tall fir trees growing in the front yard of a residence on the 1000 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police last night.
BROKEN GLASS
• Chehalis police were called about 8:40 p.m. yesterday to a home on Southwest Snively Avenue after someone threw a cantaloupe-sized rock through the front window.
• An officer was called about 10:40 p.m. yesterday regarding a rock through a vehicle at South Market Boulevard, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE: POSSIBLE THIRD STRIKE FOR SHOPLIFTING STRUGGLE
• A 27-year-old Centralia woman is facing a third strike – and life in prison – if convicted in what a defense attorney described as basically a “shoplifting gone bad.” Margaret D. Shults was scheduled for arraignment today following charges filed on Monday for a weekend incident in which she allegedly fought with and bit a Safeway employee in Chehalis who detained her for suspected third-degree theft. Police said Shults was seen removing items from a makeup display and concealing them on Saturday night. Chehalis police booked her for first-degree robbery, but prosecutors charged her with second-degree assault, for the injury to the employee’s shoulder. Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said Shults has a 2009 conviction for first-degree robbery and a 2006 conviction for first-degree burglary as well as numerous lesser convictions. Shults was also charged in Lewis County Superior Court with third-degree attempted escape, for pulling out of a police handcuff during the attempt to take her into custody, temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke said. Prosecutors further charged her with escape from community custody, an offense usually related to not staying in touch with one’s probation officer after release, O’Rourke said. Shults remains held in the Lewis County Jail on $750,000 bail.
PHONE SCAM ATTEMPTS
• At least 15 people contacted local law enforcement on Tuesday after getting phone calls from someone claiming to be with the Treasury Department, demanding the person send money immediately or they would be arrested or forced to go in front of the magistrate. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said the calls are coming from a phone number that begins with 717 and people should simply hang up immediately. “This is a scam,” the sheriff’s office states. “Do not ever give personal information over the phone.” The sheriff’s office suggests if a person is concerned a call may be legitimate, then they ought to ask for a phone number where they can call the caller back. and do so. Most scammers won’t give information out about themselves or their supposed organization, according to the sheriff’s office.
EMAIL SCAM ATTEMPTS
• Someone is sending out emails purportedly from District Court, indicating a notice to appear for court in Grays Harbor County, according to the sheriff’s office. The messages instruct the recipient to open an attachment, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate. “Grays Harbor District Court does not send email communications to the general public,” Shumate states in a message to the news media. “This type of email is a scam and should be immediately deleted.” Citizens should be warned not to open the attachment.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drugs; responses for alarms, dispute, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets, tiny bit of toilet paper set on fire in a park restroom … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Sure is sad what became of Packwood. I remember riding motorcycles & quads on the chip piles at the mill in the 80s
I don’t think there is a law against nudity in this state. I see people laying around nude all the time when I hike up to the alpine lakes.
Anyway I guess there is a difference if you are exhibiting you stuff for effect. This guy isn’t the only Packwood exhibitionist. The cops warned my neighbor about displaying his junk to a couple walking in the woods near my house a while back.
That motel in Packwood they were talking about doesn’t have any business anyway, so I doubt that it affected them. And I doubt there are any school kids up there as we hardly have any children since the mill closed and they closed the school.
My guess is they will quietly let this guy out of jail and drop the charges and tell him to keep his pants on in the future.