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MISSING STOLEN PROPERTY FOUND ON CENTRALIA TRAIL
• A stolen motorcycle and a stolen ATV were found in tall grass along a trail north of the viaduct and Delaware Avenue in Centralia yesterday evening after the owner of the ATV called 911 to say she saw her ATV near the railroad tracks behind Schaefer Park. Deputies and Centralia police surrounded the area and a detective subsequently saw two people with a similar description of the suspects who had been seen on it, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for possession of stolen vehicles were Ronald A. Yeager, 24, from Bucoda, and Qierstin Ramsay, 19, from Chehalis, according to the sheriff’s office. They were booked into the Lewis County Jail. Recovered and returned to their owners were a 1988 Yamaha XT350 and the 2005 Honda TRX90 ATV, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.
BURGLARY AT CENTRALIA BUSINESS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday that someone forced their way into a business on the 2000 block of Gallagher Road in Centralia and stole five steel-bladed knives with elk horn handles as well as a cash drawer, a camera and a scanner. The loss to Centralia Fur and Hide is estimated at $975, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Stay Brown said it happened between 9:30 a.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. on Sunday.
MORE THEFT IN CENTRALIA
• Someone stole tools at a garage sale on the 1000 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.
• Centralia police were called just before 8 o’clock yesterday to the 700 block of South Pearl Street regarding the theft of lawn maintenance chemicals and decorative lights.
• A four-wheeled ATV was reported stolen from a shed on Monday at the 2400 block of Eureka Avenue in Centralia.
• A 34-year-old was arrested for first-degree burglary by Centralia police on Monday night in a case associated with the 1200 block of Mellen Street in Centralia. Ryan A. McCarter, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges and he was released from jail yesterday.
FRAUD IN CENTRALIA
• Police were called about 10 o’clock yesterday morning to the 200 block of West Magnolia Avenue in Centralia regarding identity theft. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called to the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue on Monday afternoon about a fraudulent check.
• Centralia police took a report on Monday morning from an individual who said someone else was using their social security number.
JAIL OFFICERS THREATENED
• Wellington M. Waggener, 26, of Centralia, was arrested at the Lewis County Jail yesterday for two counts of harassment as he allegedly told a corrections officer he wanted to see her head explode and that he would kill her if he saw her outside the jail. The Centralia man was booked into the jail on Friday night in connection with an incident a local motel for which he has been charged with a felony. The inmate allegedly also, early yesterday morning, told a jail sergeant that he wanted to slit his throat and that when he was released, he would do so, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
BRUSH CATCHES FIRE
• Firefighters were called twice yesterday to small brush fires that broke out at the 2200 block of Centralia-Alpha Road east of Chehalis at the Thousand Trails Campground. The first was just after 1 p.m. and the second was reported about 3:40 p.m. in a different area of the property, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. Firefighter Kyle Eiswald said personnel from the state Department of Natural Resources responded to take over.
• Fire broke out in tall grass along railroad tracks on South King Street in Centralia shortly after a locomotive passed through the area, prompting citizens to try to put it out with buckets on Monday evening. Firefighters called at 5:30 p.m. finished extinguishing the fire that burned a small section of fence as well as an area estimated to be 60 feet long by 30 feet wide, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Responders also put a second fire against the tracks just north of there, the fire department reports.
• Another fire broke out at TransAlta coal mine’s South Field, drawing firefighters from two fire departments and the state Department of Natural Resources. It was about 10 p.m. on Monday when an employee at the mine advised that vegetation was burning an area estimated to be less than three acres, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The crews were assisted by heavy equipment from the mine and the main fire was contained by midnight, according to Riverside. It was about a mile from the wildfire eight days earlier also on property owned by TransAlta, according to Fire Chief Mike Kytta.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, hit and run, probation violation, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, shoplifting, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, assault, barking neighbor dog, suspicious circumstances, a male falling asleep in the hallway of a hotel … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter