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Updated at 7:17 p.m.
PARTY CRASHED BY THE LAW
• Deputies, police and troopers broke up an underage party at a campsite at the 700 block of state Route 7 near Morton over the weekend and contacted 17 juveniles whose cases will be referred for charges of minor in possession of alcohol, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Several attendees ran off into the woods when law enforcement arrived about 1:10 a.m. on Saturday according to the sheriff’s office. Those who were under 18 had to call their parents, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The youth were from Mossyrock, Morton, Glenoma and Randle, Brown said.
TEACHER FINDS BOOZE AT SCHOOL
• The case of a 16-year-old boy reportedly caught with a bottle of liquor at W.F. West High School on Friday will be referred for charges of minor in possession of alcohol, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An officer was called about 10:40 a.m. after the alcohol was found by a teacher, according to police.
OUT-OF-CONTROL BOYFRIEND
• A 34-year-old man was arrested after deputies were called to a dispute about 11:50 p.m. on Saturday at the 100 block of Brady Lane in Winlock. Phillip L. Ray had reportedly threatened to jump out of a moving car on the freeway on the way home from dinner with his girlfriend and then the argument continued at home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were told Ray called their dog to him and kicked her twice in the stomach and then threw items including a television remote at his girlfriend. He had left out the backdoor before law enforcement arrived, but was found behind the residence smoking a cigarette, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree animal cruelty, third-degree malicious mischief and fourth-degree assault, according to Brown.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT
• Morton police arrested Jordan M. Gillispie, 24, last night for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, according to the Morton Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail and then charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree assault. The Morton resident’s bail was set at $10,000. Judge James Lawler signed that order that prohibits Gillispie from consuming any alcohol if he gets out of jail.
THEFT
• Police were called about 5:30 a.m. on Sunday to the 900 block of South Schueber Road in Centralia about a stolen wheelchair. There has a been a suspect identified and the case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• An $850 Schubert brand helmet vanished from its resting place on a motorcycle while its owner slept in a tent nearby over the weekend. It happened between midnight on Sunday and 10 o’clock the following morning at the Iron Creek Campground in East Lewis County, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VANDALISM
• Police were called at 6 a.m. on Sunday to take a report of window being broken out of a business on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia.
• Centralia police responded to a 1:10 p.m. call yesterday a the 800 block of South Gold Street regarding damage to the window of a vehicle.
NOT VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called about 10 p.m. yesterday by someone who reported vandalism at W.F West High School, with toilet paper and spray paint all over the school. It wasn’t, according to police. It was celebratory decorating that included a large rock set aside to get painted on, according to detective Sgt. Gary Wilson.
STRANGER IN SHED
• A 35-year-old man was arrested about 9:15 p.m. on Friday after a neighbor along the 1200 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia reported seeing a person in a shed. Ian E. Roe, described by police as transient, was cited for trespassing and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for a warrant from Olympia Municipal Court, according to the Centralia Police Department.
STRANGERS NEXT DOOR
• Officers were dispatched to a report of intruders at a residence in the 100 block of First Street in Morton on Thursday afternoon, but it turned out the home just had new renters, according to the Morton Police Department.
COLLISIONS
• Mikail A. Bullock, 25, of Chehalis, was reportedly uninjured but his car sustained major damage when he wrecked it in a ditch at about 10 p.m. on Friday at the 2200 block of Rice Road outside Chehalis. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A 43-year-old Ashford resident said he fell asleep before he collided head-on with a tree at milepost 3 on Skate Creek Road North outside of Packwood on Saturday afternoon. His Ford F250 was totaled and he was transported to a hospital with a bump on his head and other injuries, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was cited for wheels off the roadway, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, gas drive-off, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets; complaint of littering, that someone keeps filling up someone else’s dumpster, about a homeless man panhandling in front of a fast food restaurant … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter