PAIR WITH GUN BARGE INTO CENTRALIA HOME
• Police were looking for a black Honda-type car after a home invasion robbery overnight in Centralia. A 29-year-old resident of the 1000 block of Yakima Street called police about 1:20 a.m. and reported two males kicked his door in and one of them stuck a shotgun in his face, according to the Centralia Police Department. They demanded and got his wallet and cash, according to detective Sg. Pat Fitzgerald. Described at this point only as “a large guy and a small guy” the pair left quickly and then were seen getting into a car like a Honda, Fitzgerald said. The sergeant said it did not appear to be random, as the house sits far enough back from the road, no one would know it was there in the dark.
ASSAULT
• Police took a report about 9:25 p.m. last night that an individual was assaulted outside his home on the 900 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia by several males who fled in vehicles before officers arrived. Further details of the assault weren’t readily available.
NO ROOM FOR HIM AT THE INN
• A 22-year-old man was arrested early this morning in Chehalis for breaking into a hotel room. Staff at the Chehalis Inn found the plastic covering a broken window was torn and called police. An officer who went to the Interstate Avenue inn looked, and “there he was, asleep in the bed,” detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said. Levi S. Ramirez has no permanent address and has been warned by police numerous times he officially is not welcome there, according to McNamara. Ramirez was booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary.
METH
• Donald J. Green, 23, of Centralia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for unlawful possession of a controlled substance after a traffic stop just before after midnight this morning at B and East Fifth streets in Centralia. According to the report, Green tried to conceal a yellow package and then dropped it on the ground and stomped on it. The remains tested positive for methamphetamine, according to detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald.
MORE METH
• When police arrested Robert S. Russell, 46, of Centralia, for unlawful possession of a firearm on Tuesday night, they also found a “significant” amount of methamphetamine in his car, according to detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald. He described it this morning as: if one could mold it into a a clump, it would be the size of a tennis ball.
FLY FISHING EQUIPMENT TAKEN FROM CAMP SITE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this morning said it took a report of an estimated $2,700 of fly fishing gear stolen from the back of a pickup truck at a camp spot outside Randle. A deputy was told about it yesterday, but it happened sometime after midnight and before 3 a.m. on Sunday off Forest Road 25, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust. Taken were a fishing vest, two tackle boxes, more than 400 “flies” and equipment including a Sage rod, a Croix rod, an Orvis reel and two other spinning reels, Aust said.
BREAK-IN AT ESPRESSO STAND
• At about 5 o’clock this morning, Centralia police took a report somebody broke the drive-up window to an espresso stand on North Pearl Street and stole a small amount of cash from a bank bag inside.
MEDS MISSING
• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon of medication stolen from a residence on the 2700 block of Russell Road.
THEFT OF WIRE
• Somebody has been removing wiring from a vacant building on the 1700 block of Lum Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.
BICYCLE HELMETS GET THE ATTENTION OF ASSISTANT CHIEF
• Assistant Chief and Fire Marshal Larry Allen gave safety citations yesterday to a pair of little girls he spotted wearing helmets while they were riding their bicycles. The Chehalis Fire Department firefighter saw the children with their parents in the parking lot at Yard Birds on his way back from a meeting and gave them the citations, which are each good for one fat-free ice cream at McDonalds. “We pull over and give a citation to them, explaining that we caught them doing something smart, following the rules of the road,” Allen said. He has handed out four since the program with Chehalis police and firefighters started at the beginning of May.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter