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CALLER TRICKS WOMAN INTO GIVING HIM $2,000
• A 77-year-old Centralia area woman who answered a phone call yesterday morning from a man who said he was an officer with the U.S. Treasury Prepaid Department and she would be arrested if she did not immediately pay more than $6,400 she owed, stayed on the phone with him while she drove to her bank and got him the money. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said the victim purchased four $500 card from Rite Aid and gave the foreign-accented caller the activation numbers. However, the clerk warned the woman it could be a scam and the women drove to the sheriff’s office to report what happened, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. A deputy tried to call the man back, but the person just kept hanging up, Brown said. The victim is out $2011.80. The sheriff’s office recommends if anyone is ever skeptical about such a call, they can contact the sheriff’s office for assistance. Also, Brown said, anyone who gets a call from someone demanding payment ought to hang up, independently verify the number of the supposed agency and phone them to check.
RESIDENTIAL THEFTS
• Police were called on Thursday to a home on the 200 block of East Chestnut Street where an individual reported the theft of prescription medications sometime during the night, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• An officer was called to the 2400 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia about 6:40 p.m. on Wednesday regarding the theft of prescription medication, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called at about 4:55 p.m. on Wednesday about a burglary to a home on the 1500 block of Delaware Avenue. Taken were electronics, vehicle keys, a wallet and numerous other items, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation.
• Chehalis police were called about 1 p.m. on Tuesday to the 1900 block of South Market Boulevard after the discovery someone went inside an unlocked apartment and stole a television.
• Somebody stole a flag from a front porch at the 200 block of West Chestnut Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police arrested a 32-year-old man for possession of a stolen vehicle after responding to a dispute on the 1200 block of Ward Street about 3:45 p.m. on Thursday and concluding he was not supposed to have the vehicle. Lucas J. Davis was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was released from jail today as prosecutors declined to file the criminal charge.
• A 31-year-old man was arrested at Scheuber and Fords Prairie roads just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday for allegedly being in possession of a stolen vehicle. Michael E. Thomas, a homeless person, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. According to charging documents, an officer noticed the vehicle was parked at an odd angle, conducted a check and learned it was stolen. Thomas, who was standing at the open driver’s door told the officer someone else had been driving the car, but the officer found two keys in Thomas’s pocket that had been shaved, or ground down, charging documents relate. Neither Centralia police’s summary nor charging documents mention the make or model of the vehicle in question. At his court appearance on Thursday, a defense attorney told the judge Thomas resides in Olympia with his girlfriend. He was released on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
THEFTS AT BUSINESSES
• Centralia police called to a fight in a grocery store parking on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue lot at about 2:15 p.m. on Thursday discovered two security officers struggling to detain a suspected shoplifter. Twenty-three-year-old John R. Cabell had allegedly fled the business with candy hidden in his clothing, according to the Centralia Police Department. Cabell suffered small cuts to his forehead and the other two sustained minor scrapes, according to police. Cabell was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called Thursday to the 700 block of South Market Boulevard after the discovery of images on security video from around 6 a.m. of someone wearing a Halloween mask cutting a lock from an outdoor storage container. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday where a woman said she’d accidentally set down her purse and then it vanished.
• Chehalis police were called to Bartel’s clothing store on the 400 block of North Market Boulevard on Wednesday morning following the discovery that during the night somebody cut a lock to their glass front display case and stole shoes and backpacks.
VEHICLE PROWL
• A suspected car prowler wasn’t too difficult to apprehend in Chehalis early on Wednesday morning as he dozed off in the front passenger seat of the car he’d allegedly been rifling through. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said the car’s owner called police just after 5 a.m. to say there was someone sleeping in his vehicle on the 500 block of Northwest St. Helens Avenue. The suspect was still napping when the officer arrived and had to be physically removed from the car, according to police. When Joshua G. Dagris was searched, an iPhone that belonged in the car was found, as were credit cards from a Centralia car prowl a few days earlier, according to authorities. At the jail, a disassembled plastic pen on Dagris was found to have suspected heroin residue inside it, charging documents relate. The 27-year-old was booked and subsequently charged in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree vehicle prowl, second-degree possession of stolen property and possession of a controlled substance. An attorney arguing for his bail on Thursday in Lewis County Superior Court noted although the W.F. West High School graduate had just been sentenced a week earlier for a drug violation, he’s been working really hard to get back on his feet. Dagris, homeless during his last case, is now paying rent for a place to live, had just landed a job three days earlier and is undergoing outpatient treatment, defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge. His bail was set at $5,000.
• Someone broke into a vehicle at the 400 block of Northwest North Street in Chehalis and stole speakers and jumper cables, according to a report made to police on Wednesday.
• Officers took a report on Wednesday from the 1500 block of Delaware Avenue in Centralia that someone entered the victim’s unlocked vehicle and removed his wallet, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 43-year-old inmate at the Lewis County Jail was arrested for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act last night after suspected methamphetamine was found under her mattress. The sheriff’s office reports Felicia F. Harris was brought in on the relay from another jail earlier in the day and a corrections officer suspecting drug activity in her cell found the white crystal substance, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police on Thursday took reports of buildings tagged with graffiti on Northwest Pacific Avenue and North Market Boulevard.
GUN SHOT
• Chehalis police were called at 7:23 p.m. on Tuesday after a gunshot was heard on Southwest Sylvenus Street. The officer was not able to locate its source, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
PERSON IN DISTRESS
• Centralia police responded about 7:35 p.m. on Thursday to an argument between family members in which one of the participants sliced their own throat with a knife, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim was transported from the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road to Providence Centralia Hospital. The case is under investigation, according to police.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, suicidal person, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, possible identity theft, various unfounded reports … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Hey Crazy old man. I get it. You can go to infowars .com and make true comments about issues but as soon as you post here about race or welfare bums your attacked. I notice this site is always about attacking the commentor not the problem. Then theres the spelling police and the you dont know her or him person. Its just the same old re-Run on the comment boards. This web site could be turned in to a monster if we all pulled together as a team. We could catch those bike theives, those honda theive, those car prowlers. Crimes dont go un noticed there are eyes all over in our streets. If you see something say some thing. This web site is for our community, its not here to attack on another it should be used to better our lives. Just one example why did the Centralia pool ever get shut down? When was the day what caused it who was in charge at the moment why was it not fixed and how much does it really cost to open back up. Another issue construction on the freeway, we speak of welfare bums but I wonder why there are so many men standing around at the construction site doing nothing?. These things are all around us we need to be a team not divided. 3Rd issue call me crazy but the damm fluoride in the water people are treated as if their crazy when they mention it here. Has anyone ever public disclosed the content info? Or do you just go with the flow and label people crazy because they might be right. I care about my country and when I see poison added to the water it makes me want to act. This is what this web site is for its for a group of togetherness not take cheap shots at screen names. I guess its just a dream that we could come together as a community for once. I know this will never happen I just thought Id mention it. Let the attacks begain.. no hope even know it could be a great place to live if we all chipped in and took the pool away from whom ever let it go un cared for. Im sure it had something to do with a city official that failed at doing their job
Sorry @AngloSaxon – a case of mistaken identity.
Do you see a comment from me in this section crazy Old Man. No ya dont what are you talking about? Please direct me to my comment………
Come on Sharyon when are you going to update the news blog? Im itching for the next crazy crime story!
I often wonder how people receiving these calls can be stupid enough to send them money, but after receiving a few myself it’s less mysterious.
The people that call are dumb and usually have a dumb story to access your greed or fear. You’ve won something and they just need a little for taxes or fees, You are in trouble with the IRS, your grandson is in jail and needs your help, etc.
Most old people have enough mental capacity to realize it’s a scam and hang up or chum them a little for cheap entertainment like I do. But, if they call enough people, they are bound to hit someone who has diminished capacity or dementia and will be susceptible to their scam.
But almost advertised in America is a scam now, some are just more blatant than others. Even the institutions that you would once trusted such as the banks have their various scams. You really have to be careful to not be taken and still you are bound to be victimized a bit.
@Anglo Saxon: The racial slander is not cool. The changes in American society are not the fault of individuals or particular racial groups.
When I graduated high school I was an economic refugee from a small town. I went to the closest Midwest city seeking employment. When approaching that city the first thing that I could see was the smoke of industry. There was a lot of manufacturing industry with manufacturing jobs and all of the associated economy.
I eventually got a job with a manufacturer whose name you would recognize and worked side by side with whites and blacks with minimal education in a job that paid decently for the time. Perhaps these people had problems but a paying job solves a lot of problems. These people supported families, bought houses and cars, and paid taxes.
Then the Army caught me up and sent me to Vietnam. When I was discharged I got a job in an underground copper mine and worked there for two years before going to college on the GI bill. Again I worked with people with not a lot of education who made decent money, supported their families, bought houses and cars, and paid taxes.
During the last 30 years the people who run this world have decided that we should have a world economy and people in the United States cost too much and most of this manufacturing has been distributed to China and the third world.
Now, in the United States, we don’t have those manufacturing and resource industry jobs which people who were not highly educated could obtain, support their families, by houses and cars, and pay taxes. This is over simplification as there are a lot of other trends such as automation affecting the working class.
So now we have trended into minimum wage socialism to support people who would have held those jobs that the money people and politicians have sent overseas.
So know we have neighborhoods were young people with no opportunity run wild in the streets and we need a militarized occupation police force to keep some control. We have less than half of the people pulling the wagon and more than half of the people riding in it. 50+ million people on food assistance. Record numbers on SSI.
These conditions have been created in America from on high. Same with the immigration, legal and otherwise. The tech industry brings in people from around the world at a low wage. These people strive to stay here permanently and try to bring there family members once they establish themselves. The farmers bring in poor people from Mexico to pick the crops that Americans won’t pick. These people want a better life and strive to stay here and bring family members. I think they would prefer to stay in Mexico if conditions were better there.
This is the new America and it’s here to stay and it will continue until China and the rest of the world won’t take our IOU’s anymore. They need to take them now or let their manufactured stuff sit on the docks, but that can’t last forever.
Bra bustn cow… O well.this poor women got 2000 $ stole by what sounds like Mexican trash. That’s the problem,these lil illegal turds don’t teach there future welfare scum anything. Well except how to be trash. When I found the scum bag Mexican that stole my sons bike , I let my bat fix it . And I bet he never will steal in the u.s.a again… The cops won’t do there jobs.. Maybe we should ??
Wow somebody just made a quick $2000! The old saying:there is a sucker born every minute!!! Oh,well lol!
Mr. Donald Trump called me a while back and told me that I had won $1 million plus a new Mercedes. I didn’t realize that English was not the Donald’s first language. Then I looked up the area code and found that he was calling from the Dominican Republic.
Anyway, he said the bulk of the taxes were taken care of but I just had to send them a pittance of $600.00 or so to take care of the remainder and FedEx would come by with my $1 million and new car.
I told him that I already had plenty of money and a nice pickup truck so that I didn’t need it.
One month later he called back and I had won again. Should I send him some money?