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ONLOOKER CAPTURES MAN RUNNING FROM POLICE
• Police were called about 6:20 p.m. yesterday about an individual stealing a jacket from a store on the 100 block of West High Street in Centralia. An arriving officer saw a suspect flee on foot and then a citizen near Burger King on Harrison Avenue tackled the man, and held him for the officer, according to the Centralia Police Department. Thirty-four-year-old Lupe Ramos said he and his son were in the play area at the fast food establishment when he looked out the window and saw a guy running, carrying an orange jacket, and then saw a patrol car cut off the runner at the driveway. “He doubled back, I just saw an opportunity,” he said. Ramos, who said he stands 6-feet 5-inches tall and is as big as a doorway, said he ducked outside, took two steps, and jumped into him. “It was mostly his momentum,” he said. “We were on top of him, the officer turned him over, and then the officer high-fived me, and said, ‘that was awesome dude, thanks’,” Ramos said. The suspect, Anthony R. Madison, 26 of Aberdeen, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree theft, according to police. Ramos, who lives in Rochester and works at W.F. West High School, said he played football when he was a teenager. “It’s been years since I’ve done that,” he said. “But it all comes back to you.”
BURNED OUT OF HOME
• Centralia police were contacted last night by a homeless man in his 30s who said someone burned his tent. Officers found a burn pile near the 1400 block of West Main Street with what appeared to be a tent pole, according to the Centralia Police Department. Its owner had been away away at the time, police said.
GARAGE BURGLED
• Centralia police were called about 6 o’clock yesterday evening regarding a welder stolen from a a garage on the 600 block of South Diamond Street.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT
• A 45-year-old Toledo man who allegedly assaulted his wife on Monday night turned himself in yesterday morning. Ronald J. Mitchell went to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office.
TEEN ARRESTED WITH STOLEN HONDA
• An 18-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of methamphetamine yesterday morning on the 500 block of Coal Creek Road outside Chehalis. A deputy was responding about 7:15 a.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle and found two vehicles parked off the road with a man and a woman standing nearby, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When the deputy checked, it was discovered the green 1999 Honda Civic had been reported stolen from Chehalis a few hours earlier, according to the sheriff’s office. Uriah W.C. Osborne was booked into the Lewis County Jail, detective Sgt. Steve Aust said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, harassment, trespassing, resisting arrest, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, protection order violation, collision on city street … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter