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SHOPLIFTING
• Centralia officers “physically subdued” a 25-year-old homeless woman who was running from a store security person last night following an alleged shoplift. Police called to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue just before 10 p.m. arrested Shila K. Brennan, 25, for third-degree theft and booked her into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWLING
• Chehalis police were called a little after 2 o’clock this morning to the 400 block of Northeast Adams Avenue where a woman said she’d gone out to her car to get something and found a man inside it with a flashlight. He ran off and was not located, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It appeared a neighbor’s vehicle had also been prowled, police said. The suspect was described only as white and in his mid-20s, with short hair or bald and wearing “skater” shoes, according to police.
BAD CHECK
• Chehalis police were called about 2 p.m. yesterday regarding someone trying to fraudulently cash a check at a bank on the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
ASSAULT
• The Olympian reports a 37-year-old Centralia man accused of choking and beating another man at a mobile home near Rainier a week and a half ago pleaded not guilty yesterday to second-degree assault and felony harassment in Thurston County Superior Court. News reporter Amelia Dickson writes the victim’s girlfriend and children witnessed the altercation that began with Mike J. Poulton banging on the man’s door while he slept.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, probation violation, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter