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BANK WINDOW SHATTERED
• Police were called just before 11 o’clock last night to Umpqua Bank in Chehalis when a customer dropping off a deposit discovered the glass door broken. A person responsible met an officer at the business on the 400 block of North Market Boulevard, checked inside and found everything seemed to be in order, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There was a small hole which appeared to have been made by a pellet gun, according to police.
MORE PELLET GUN ACTION
• Someone broke out a window of a vehicle parked overnight at the 1200 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police yesterday morning. It appeared it may have been shot at with a pellet gun, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
OFFRAMP DISAGREEMENT
• Chehalis police were called about 10:40 a.m. yesterday regarding two people involved in a dispute with a “panhandler” at the northbound Interstate 5 offramp at Chamber of Commerce Way in Chehalis. Further details were not yet available.
FISHERMAN RIPPED OFF AT COWLITZ RIVER
• An individual reported his backpack containing about $1,000 worth of fishing gear including expensive reels vanished from the riverbank at the 100 block of Osprey Lane outside Toledo when he turned his back on a young man who’d struck up a conversation with him. The 65-year-old man from Lynnwood reported yesterday that it happened on Friday while he was at the Cowlitz Trout Hatchery, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He told a deputy that after they spoke, the stranger wandered off to check on his friend and the victim retrieved something from his truck. When he returned, the gray, teardrop shaped pack was gone, according to the sheriff’s office. The victim went to the parking area where he saw the silver pickup truck the young man and his friend had been in was gone, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The suspected thief was described as white, in his mid-20s, slender an about 5-feet 10-inches tall, Brown said. He’d said he was from Buckley, according to Brown. The sheriff’s office is reminding the public that anyone with information can remain anonymous and earn a reward up to $1,000 by calling Lewis County Crime Stoppers.
URBAN DEER HUNTING REPORT
• Chehalis police were called at 9:45 a.m. yesterday to a complaint of someone firing a gun and chasing after a deer off of Northwest Prindle Street in Chehalis.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, protection order violation, misdemeanor assault; responses for dispute, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on roundabout, saw a truck swerve so driver might be texting … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter