CENTRALIA HOUSE FIRE
• A fire broke out this morning in a house on the 1100 block Centralia College Boulevard causing an estimated $70,000 or $80,000 damage. The two-story home looks fine on the outside but the upstairs sustained fire and smoke damage, and water damage – both from fire hoses and plumbing that burst – is an issue, according to Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Tim Adolphsen. Firefighters, called about 10:40 a.m., found fire in the attic space, Adolphsen said. The cause isn’t yet known, he said.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called just before 8 a.m. yesterday about a burglary at a business on the 300 block of Harrison Avenue in which someone broke a window and stole stamps off a windowsill.
VANDALISM
• Police were called to the 300 block of North Oak Street in Centralia yesterday about a rock thrown through a car window.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ARREST
• Thomas Allen Reeves, 39, of Centralia, was arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a patient at a drug rehabilitation center in Chehalis. The patient is a 27-year-old female from Tacoma, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Chehalis police, and prosecutors this afternoon, said he works at American Behavioral Health. The charge of custodial sexual misconduct comes because since patients, or clients, of ABH are required by the state Department of Corrections to be there, a sexual relationship between an employee and patient is custodial sexual misconduct, according to police and prosecutors. Bail was set for Reeves, a care team member at ABH, at $25,000. Reeves was charged in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon and his defense attorney Bob Schroeter told the judge Reeves is employed by a construction company. Deputy Prosecutor Colin Hayes said he didn’t know anything about the defendant working for a construction company.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter