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THREATS
• Centralia police were called to the 500 block of South Oak Street about 11:10 p.m. yesterday where they learned from a 72-year-old resident that his former tenant-roommate had threatened to beat him up and break all the windows out of his house. Police said Randy J. Toups, 52, was upset because his belongings had been thrown out. Toups was arrested for misdemeanor harassment and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BREAK-INS
• Police responded to an alarm at 5:45 a.m. today at a business on Southwest 13th Street in Chehalis where they found a door and a window open. Some dental floss was knocked over, but it wasn’t yet clear what, if anything, might be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• An officer was called to Southwest Interstate Avenue in Chehalis about 6:40 a.m. today regarding items taken from a vehicle during the night.
DRUGS
• Chehalis police were called yesterday by a woman who said someone else picked up her prescription pain medication at a pharmacy on the 1200 block of Louisiana Avenue. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police responded yesterday evening to a report of a person trespassing in a vacant building at Duffy Street and Oregon Way and ended up arresting a 25-year-old Chehalis resident for possession of methamphetamine. An officer found small bag of white crystal, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Drake A. Lorber was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report overnight of someone spray painting orange lettering onto a house on the 400 block of South Street. it appears to be gang-style graffiti, according to the Centralia Police Department.
KITCHEN FIRE
• Firefighters were called at 9 p.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of West Main Street in Centralia where a pan of cooking oil left on the stove unattended caught fire. The occupant was able to put it out before the fire department arrived, according to Riverside Fire Authority. A crew used fans to remove the smoke from the residence. The minor damage was confined to the stove and the pan, according to the fire department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, possession of liquor by a minor, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor theft, telephone harassment, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street; complaints of intoxicated male scaring customer, of someone messing with someone else’s car … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter