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VEHICLE THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 7:10 a.m. yesterday about a Yamaha 225 motorcycle stolen from the 100 block of North Oak Street sometime during the previous 24 hours. The Yamaha, non-functioning, was found abandoned on the 200 block of North King Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER THEFT
• A wallet and a set of keys were reported stolen from a home on the 300 block of Kearney Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday evening.
• Centralia police were called about 6:25 p.m. yesterday about jewelry stolen from a room at a motel on the 1000 block of Eckerson Road.
• Police took a report yesterday from the 500 block of North Rock Street in Centralia regarding the fraudulent use of a credit card.
MORE FROM MORTON COUNTRY MARKET ARRESTS
• Morton police are working with other law enforcement agencies to contact at least 32 victims whose property was found inside the stolen Toyota Scion recovered in the parking lot at the Country Market in Morton last Monday. The driver, 19-year-old Jocelyn R. MacFarland, told the police chief the car was borrowed from a person in Tacoma and that not everything in the car belonged to her and her boyfriend. Besides a stolen firearm located in the glove compartment, police found credit cards, EBT cards, checks and personal banking and financial accounting documents, according to the Morton Police Department. Unspecified medications were recovered as well, according to police. Morton police have determined people in four cities were victimized and are working with the Tacoma Police Department, the Puyallup Police Department and the state Department of Social and Health Services to find the rightful owners, according to information released yesterday. MacFarland, and Austin L. Hedges, 23, both from Morton, were charged on Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court with taking a motor vehicle without permission and other related offenses. Morton police subsequently searched a residence on Third Street associated with the case and turned up more suspected unlawfully possessed credit cards and identifications as well as a “contraband weapon.”
LEWIS COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS
• Crime Stoppers of Lewis County and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s assistance with an arson investigation relating to the 200 block of Aubrey Lane, east of Chehalis. On the night of Jan. 1, someone entered a garage on the property and set a fire in a vehicle. The loss is estimated at $5,000. Crime Stoppers is looking for tips and notes that anonymous calls can be made to 1-800-748-6422 or information may be shared online at www.lewiscountycrimestoppers.org
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Glad my brother’s Yamaha was found. Thank God for the thief that my brother did not catch him in the act as he would probably be in the hospital. I guess you can’t do that anymore and consider it justified–beat the crap out of someone for stealing your belongings, because YOU would be the one doing time. Apparently our society has become a place where thieves can take what they want from victims and are protected.