METAL PIPE TO HEAD
• Centralia police responded to an incident about 10 p.m. last night on the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue in which a male was reportedly struck in the head with a pipe by a family member. Further details were not noted in a summary from the Centralia Police Department.
HIT AND RUN DRIVER LEAVES BEHIND BUMPER
• Responders were called to a hit and run collision just after 9 p.m. last night in which a bumper from the offending vehicle was left behind, according to authorities. A woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the incident at North Tower and East Main Street, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Officers subsequently arrested and booked for felony hit and run Yaney Rodriguez Serrano, 37, of Mexico, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• Police responding about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday to a location on the 1700 block of Cooks Hill Road arrested a homeless man from Longview for first-degree criminal trespass, third-degree malicious mischief and possession of methamphetamine. Micheal S. Cabe, 28, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Centralia police.
• A 30-year-old Chehalis man, Mark A. Silva, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine following a traffic stop about 12:10 a.m. on Saturday on the 100 block of East Sixth Street in Centralia. The 58-year-old female driver from Centralia and a 37-yea-old Rochester man were booked for felony warrants, according to the Centralia Police Department.
LOADED FIREARM MISSING FROM UNLOCKED VEHICLE
•The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a loaded 9 mm Smith and Wesson pistol was reportedly stolen from under the seat of an unlocked vehicle when it was parked on Forest Service Road 23 outside Randle. The victim, a 40-year-old man from Tacoma, reported the theft on Wednesday but said it occurred sometime on Nov. 10 and 11 when he was hunting. Its serial number is 206304, according to the sheriff’s office.
BURGLARIES
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a digital camera was stolen in a residential burglary on the 4900 block of state Route 6 outside Chehalis. A deputy called on Friday was told it happened sometime between 9 a.m. and noon, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• Four Black Hills gold rings were discovered missing from a home on the 200 block of Falls Road in Randle, according to a report made on Thursday morning to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim told a deputy she realized they were gone that day but suspected they might have been taken around the same time a neighbor’s residence was burglarized a few weeks earlier, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss was estimated at $2,600.
CAR PROWLS
• A stereo was stolen from a vehicle on the 1400 block of Johnson Road, according to a report made to Centralia police about noon yesterday.
• Chehalis police early Saturday took a report of a car prowl on the 100 block of Northeast Washington Avenue. A distributor was missing from the glove box of an unlocked vehicle, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Somebody stole a stereo and tools from a vehicle on the 1000 block of Southeast Washington Avenue, according to a report made to Chehalis police early Saturday.
SLASHING AND SMASHING
• Police were called about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday after the rear window was found smashed in a vehicle outside the movie theater at the Lewis County Mall on Northeast Hampe Way.
• Centralia police took a report early Saturday of a vehicle’s tire being slashed sometime overnight on the 1000 block of L Street.
• On Friday morning, an officer took a report of a tire being slashed on the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia.
GRAFFITI TO BUSINESS
• Centralia police reported gang-style graffiti was found at a business on the 1400 block of Lum Road.
SPACE HEATER BLAMED FOR SHED FIRE
• A green house was destroyed in a fire that appeared to have been started from a space heater on Centralia-Alpha Road on Wednesday morning, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter