Updated at 2:09 p.m.
BEEPING BOX EMPTIES CENTRALIA LIBRARY
• A package sent to the Centralia library which began beeping this morning caused the building to be cleared out and a bomb squad called around 11 a.m. Centralia Police Department Sgt. Stacy Denham said the box was X-rayed, and turned out to contain someone’s personal belongings, as though someone else had packaged them up for them. It included items like a small Hibachi, a watch a speaker, and an ID card, Denham said. Police suspect the sender used the library’s return address on South Silver Street because they didn’t want the parcel to get returned to their address. Police are trying to contact the intended recipient, who they believe knows nothing about it, he said.
K-9 TRACKS TO APARTMENTS AFTER MORNING BREAK-IN
• Centralia police were dispatched about 2:45 a.m. today to an interrupted attempted burglary at the grocery store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in which the suspect appeared to be the same person from an incident the night before. A Lewis County Sheriff’s Office police dog assisted with a track in the area which led to a nearby apartment building, according to the Centralia Police Department. Yesterday at about 4 a.m. officers responded to the same place after someone broke a window to grab a bottle of liquor. The investigation continues, according to police.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Centralia police yesterday took a report of power tools getting stolen from the back of a pickup truck at the 1700 block of Shamrock Lane on Friday night.
MISSING LICENSE PLATE
• Chehalis police were called yesterday by an individual who said the license plate was stolen from their car while parked at Safeway on South Market Boulevard.
EXPOSED
• A 37-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday for indecent exposure in association with an approximately 10:25 a.m. call to the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard. Charles R Simpson booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
COLLISION
• Chehalis police responded to the area near Kresky Avenue about 2:40 p.m. yesterday for a two-vehicle collision that may have involved one of them traveling the wrong direction on a one-way street. Further details were not readily available.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, protection order violation, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, dispute, vandalism, hit and run, big dog attacking little dog, stolen jewelry, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
It would take more than just better spelling and grammar for me. A story about a suspicious package turns into Obama creating ISIS?
Sleeping Giant: I would be able to take you more seriously if you knew how to punctuate, spell and use correct grammar.
Good thing no one was hurt or killed by the police. A watch is not illegal nor a hibatchi. Sending mail is not illegal. But what is of great concern is the way this was handled. Remember a world before the Police State. Next time just deliver the package, if was a bomb it would already exploded after the beep And police want to think there heros. Contrators have a higher rate of death than a cop at work. Isis was created by our own Government the war are terror is a facade to take your rights away. Thanks CPD for opening package of mail. Lol