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OWNER CHASES SHOPLIFTER
• The owner of a Centralia business fought with a suspected shoplifter yesterday who fled with a rack of CDs. Officers called about 2:30 p.m. to the 600 block of North Tower Avenue learned that when the suspect got into a car, the owner grabbed the rack of CDs and the suspect’s cell phone, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police have identified a “person of interest” and are investigating the case as a second-degree robbery because the alleged shoplifter struck the owner while in the parking lot, according to police.
AUTO THEFT
• A 1987 BMW 535, with flat tires, was reported missing from the 200 block of Hemlock Street in Centralia yesterday afternoon. The car has a license plate reading AHT 9494, according to the Centralia Police Department.
MISSING MEDS
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to the 700 block of North Pearl Street to take a report of the theft of medication. A caregiver is suspected, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday regarding suspected stolen medication from a home on Southwest Third Street.
OTHER THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 12:10 p.m. yesterday to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue regarding a theft. Further details were not yet available.
• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday about a cell phone missing from a locker at Chehalis Middle School.
• Centralia police took a report on Monday morning of the theft of mail from a mailbox at the 300 block of East Main Street.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called about 1:10 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl at the 400 block of East Main Street. A window had been broken out and it wasn’t yet known what might be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by a previous car prowl victim who reported a bank card had been stolen, from the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue.
• Police called about 8 p.m. on Monday about a person seen trying door handles in the parking lot at Wal-Mart contacted the individual and discovered he had a misdemeanor warrant. He denied the suspicious activity, but Stephen F. Lynn, 56, of Olympia, was arrested for the warrant and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Police were called to the 700 block of North Pearl Street on Monday about an overnight vehicle prowl there.
• Change was stolen from a locked vehicle during the night a t the 900 block of E Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police on Monday.
• A pocket knife was among the items missing following a vehicle prowl at the 1300 block of Central Boulevard in Centralia, which was reported to police about 11 a.m. on Monday.
JUST ODD
• Someone cut the lock off a dumpster at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police at about 5:10 p.m. on Monday.
MORTON COUNTRY MARKET ARRESTS
• A couple pulled over in a stolen car in the parking lot at the Country Market in Morton were brought before a judge yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court. Jocelyn R. MacFarland, 19, and Austin L. Hedges, 23, were each charged yesterday with taking a motor vehicle without permission, second-degree possession of stolen property and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. They told the Morton police chief when they were arrested on Monday the Toyota Scion was borrowed from person in Tacoma and that not everything in the car belonged to them, according to charging documents. A loaded Smith and Wesson was found in the glove box and the vehicle also contained two driver’s licenses, a social security card, a debit card and a credit card all with various people’s names on them, according to court documents. A third person told police she was only with them because she was getting a ride, prosecutors wrote. The judge yesterday ordered the two held on $10,000 bail and scheduled their arraignments for Thursday.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Troopers called about 11 a.m. yesterday to U.S. Highway 12 in Glenoma when an eastbound box truck left the roadway and came to rest about 50 feet away on its side found the driver had been distracted, according to the Washington State Patrol. The driver was taken to Morton General Hospital as a precaution, according to the state patrol. The truck was towed, Trooper Tara Hicks said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation; responses for alarm, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, receipt of counterfeit bills … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Carrie. Sentence structure and punctuation errors are not good things to ignore when correcting someones spelling. It has also been my experience that when trying to correct someone that misstating things by saying that one individual stole from another individual when it was a business being stolen from and not an individual, does not lend itself to giving oneself the moral highground.
Go home with tjat sad shit.
Red Tape, perhaps if you could manage to spell correctly, you could more effectively express your thoughts. Do not blame your phone, by the way. You are, after all, in control of it……aren’t you? Furthermore, it matters not what you believe the value of the merchandise stolen is/was. The bare bones fact is an individual STOLE from another individual. Period. This is about a THIEF, a low-life, a drain on society.
Red Tape, I can’t argue with someone who has no common sense or rationality . How are new DVD’s in wrappers bought wholesale by a store stolen?………LOL.
theres a good chance alot of those DVDs were ‘stolen’ at some point so maybe he was just collecting ‘evidence.’ the only crime being commited here in ignorance. You can get lots of free movies on the internet using steaming services such as netflix sorry but DVDS are worthless. The dude had his cell phone entered into evidence? But really that was the only thing of value taken from anyone. The irony. Criminal, yes i rape and pillvage your small mindedness. Its not 1955 anymore grandma. You couldnt pay me to take those DVDs away. Worthless coasters.
Red Tape, Really!! A owner has just been robbed!!! Evidence was collected from the person being robbed. That is not theft! Good job for this owner who helped to catch the suspect. Another thief off the street. I have a sense from your post that you have a criminal record Red Tape!
RED TAPE, The police have the cell phone. The Cell phone was in the basket with the DVD”s. Before you speak you should know the facts…… Therefore it was not theft of a cell phone if you had any common sense or knowledge of what happened. Who has been arrested for robbery? Idiot!!!
What about the owner who stole his cell phone? Isnt that theft? Or is theft ok when your getting robbed?
Update on the shoplifter in the 600 block of North Tower. It was actually a shopping basket full off DVD’s. After this incident the owner reviewed surveillance over the last weekend because on Monday the owner noticed there was high number of DVD’s emptied off the shelf. The same suspect was seen doing the same thing on Saturday. The suspect was picked out of a line up by 2 witnesses this morning. He was arrested in the 1400 block of Oxford st. in Centralia this morning. He confessed in writing to both incidents and will be facing prison time for second degree robbery and theft.