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SUPER SHOPLIFTING
• Chehalis police were called about 7:35 p.m. yesterday to the 500 block of South Market Boulevard after an alarm sounded at a rear emergency exit at Rite-Aid and then employees discovered “a lot” of alcohol missing from a back storage room. Two male suspects were described as in their 30s or 40s, one white and one black, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A dollar value of the loss was not yet available, police said.
• A trooper happened to be in the area when a man wheeled a big screen television out of Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon, without paying, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Donny L. Clark, 55, of Olympia, was contacted then arrested for third-degree theft in connection with the merchandise, a 55-inch TV valued at $620, according to police. He was then released pending his court date, according to police.
• A call to the parking lot at Wal-Mart for suspicious circumstances, a man seen looking into a vehicle, happened about the same time yesterday morning that a woman pushed a shopping cart of merchandise outside the store without paying and led to one arrest, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It turned out the two had arrived together and he was released, but she was detained, according to police. Elicia A. Thebiay, 40, from Oakville, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for a drug violation, as a glass smoking device was found, according to police. A case for third-degree theft was also forwarded to prosecutors, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.
SHOPLIFTING SCUFFLE
• Two individuals were detained for alleged shoplifting at Sun Bird Shopping Center and a third person reportedly punched an employee and fled late yesterday afternoon. Officers responding to the approximately 5:35 p.m. call to the store on North National Avenue let the female go and arrested 35-year-old Jose A. Pulido for third-degree theft in connection with a flashlight taken, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was then released pending a court date, according to police.
AUTO THEFT
• Two stolen vehicles were recovered in Centralia yesterday morning, one parked on the side of the street at the 400 block of South Diamond and the other abandoned in a lot on the 300 block of South Street.
LOCKER ROOM THEFT
• An Apple watch was reported stolen yesterday from a locker room at the 800 block of Eshom Road in Centralia.
MAIL THEFT
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to take a report that someone stole mail two days in a row from a mailbox on the 1500 block of Fairview Lane.
CAR PROWL
• Cash was stolen from a vehicle parked at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street in Chehalis sometime in the half hour previous to an approximately 7 p.m. call to police yesterday. One door had been left unlocked, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Police were called about 10:25 a.m. yesterday regarding an unlocked vehicle prowled at the 700 block of Gold Street in Centralia. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer took another report a while later from the same area of someone stealing the rear view mirror from inside another, unlocked, vehicle, according to police.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called yesterday to the 600 block of West Cherry Street where someone had slashed two truck tires sometime during the night.
DOMESTIC DISPUTE
• A fight over a plate of food being knocked out of one person’s hands led to a 59-year-old man arrested last night for fourth-degree assault. Officers called about 10:50 p.m. to the 2600 block of Fords Prairie Avenue in Centralia booked Eric J. Underwood into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, hit and run, suspicious circumstances, blankets on the backside of a building as though someone may be sleeping there … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter