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ROBBERY CENTRALIA
• Centralia police are investigating a robbery that took place last night at a home on the 300 block of Courtland Street. Officers called at about 11:30 p.m. learned the victim was assaulted, according to the Centralia Police Department. Unspecified items were reportedly taken from inside the residence. The investigation is ongoing. Further details were not readily available.
BURGLARY CENTRALIA
• A deputy was called about 8:30 p.m. yesterday regarding a Centralia area burglary in which the victims said approximately $16,000 worth of valuables were taken, mostly jewelry and electronics. The residents said they left at about 10 o’clock that morning and returned home at 5:45 p.m. to find their place on the 2300 block of Padrick Road ransacked, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It appeared someone pried open a sliding glass door, according to the sheriff’s office. Two safes full of firearms were broken into and a handgun and various other items were removed, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Some evidence was left at the scene, including tire marks across the yard, that led to Nugget Drive, where a neighbor said two males in their 20s came to the door saying they’d lost their friend hiking, Brown said.
THEFT CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were called at 7 o’clock this morning by an individual who said someone broke into his work truck overnight while at a motel on the 200 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue and stole a GPS unit as well as a remote control device for heavy equipment valued at more than $5,000.
BREAK-IN MOSSYROCK
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a residence in Mossyrock was burglarized sometime between July 18 and July 22 and some $4,500 worth of property stolen, including a 17-inch computer and three Xbox games. Someone got inside the home at the 100 block of Workman Road through an unsecured door, according to the sheriff’s office.
CAR TABS ARREST
• A 22-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday for allegedly having license tabs from a stolen vehicle. Julie A. Rogers was booked into Lewis County Jail for third-degree possession of stolen property in a case associated with the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called to Fort Borst Park in Centralia about 9:50 a.m. yesterday regarding a broken window to a vehicle.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license, arrest for an alleged child sex crime in which the individual was released from jail with no charges filed pending further investigation; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, abandoned cats, collision on city street, dog alone in parked car and panting … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter