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ARSON INVESTIGATION

• The cause of a Saturday night fire at the 200 block of U.S. Highway 12 south of Chehalis is under investigation, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Members of Lewis County Fire District 5 – Newaukum Valley Fire and Rescue – responded to an 11:34 p.m. call and found an outbuilding burning, according to Fire Chief Gregg Peterson. They extinguished it, he said. Peterson described  the shed and its contents as a total loss. The sheriff’s office said this morning two sheds were set on fire. It is believed to be related to an ongoing neighborhood dispute and both parties are pointing fingers at each other, according to the sheriff’s office.

STUDENT ACCUSED OF PILFERING IN BACKYARD

• A 28-year-old Centralia College student was arrested on Saturday morning following a call about a man seen pulling a cart with a bicycle through a backyard on the 500 block of South Cedar Street and then a call soon after by a person on the 500 block of South Ash Street who said he came home to discover numerous items dumped in his fenced yard. Among the property found was an air compressor and solar radio that belonged on Cedar Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. The makeshift trailer located on Ash Street also contained metal and tools including a small chainsaw, according to police. The resident on Ash Street showed police other items he found, including four bicycles and a tote with bike wheels and bike parts, police reported. Jeremy A. Goldner was booked into the Lewis County Jail and subsequently charged today with second-degree burglary. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke said he is a full time student, on the honor roll, trying to major in diesel mechanics who lives with his mother, but has arranged to go live at a sobriety house in Lewis County. His bail was set with a $10,000 unsecured bond when he went before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.

BELONGINGS PLUCKED FROM OPEN WINDOW

• Centralia police were called to the 400 block of West Plum Street about 6 p.m. yesterday where they were told a bag sitting on the sill of of open window had been stolen. It contained $20, identification and a green card, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE THEFT

• A pickup truck reported stolen about 3:40 p.m. on Friday from the Twin City Town Center was located on Sunday afternoon at Wal-Mart. It was returned to its owner, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

MISSING MEDS

• An officer was called about the theft of prescription medication yesterday from the 1000 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening to the 500 block of Northwest New York Avenue where an individual said she discovered numerous of her Oxycodone pills were missing.

OTHER THEFT

• Police yesterday contacted an individual in Centralia who said the rear license plate had been taken from her vehicle. She didn’t know when it went missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 33-year-old woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after contact with police about 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Stephanie R. Keen, described by police as a resident of Ethel, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 6:15 a.m. today following the discovery of several windows damaged at R.E. Bennett Elementary School on the 200 block of South Market Boulevard. They had holes in them, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Somebody spray painted a car at the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• Prosecutors asked for $50,000 bail and a judge set it at $100,000 today for a 52-year-old Mossyrock man accused of assaulting his girlfriend, threatening to cut her head off, taking her phone and keeping her from leaving the home for five hours. Police were called on Thursday afternoon after she finally did leave and called 911 from someone else’s home, according to charging documents. The woman told police Stephen L. Shores was angry she wasn’t helping him sell his artwork and allegedly pinned her to the bed, spit on her and slapped her repeatedly, according to charging documents. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail early on Friday and went before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court, charged with unlawful imprisonment and harassment. Prosecutors told the judge they had concerns about community safety in part because Shores has seven convictions for second-, third- and fourth-degree assaults from 2008 and around that time period, plus five convictions in 2002 for assault and harassment.

ON THE ROAD

• A 29-year-old Castle Rock man was arrested for driving under the influence after his car took out several small trees over a distance of about 30 yards near Avery Road West and North Military Road early on Sunday morning. Deputies responding about 3:30 a.m. for a collision found burning rubber and smoke rising from the 2006 Dodge Stratus; it’s engine running, stereo blaring and wheels spinning at maximum RPMs, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A passenger window was broken to extract the driver Jeremy L. Franklin who was unconscious, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said Franklin woke up but was confused and was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. Blood was drawn as he was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, according to Brown. Franklin was then booked into the Lewis County Jail. The car was totaled.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, hit and run, drugs, urinating in public, protection order violation, reckless endangerment, malicious mischief, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft, collision in parking lot, vehicle stuck on railroad tracks, student driving like a maniac at or near W.F. West High School, someone lighting off fireworks at a house with Christmas lights … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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