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FELONY ASSAULT CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were called just before 8 p.m. yesterday to an assault at the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue. An investigation is ongoing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
BREAKING AND ENTERING
• Centralia police were called just before 2 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of K Street where an individual returned home to find their front door open and their place ransacked. The victim was not yet sure anything is actually missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this morning reported someone broke a door jamb at a vacation cabin on the 100 block of Timber Trail Lane in Packwood sometime during the past week. It was not readily apparent if anything was stolen, according to the sheriff’s office.
CHAINSAW RECOVERED
• A detective yesterday arrested a 25-year-old man at Labor Ready in Centralia after an investigation that turned up a chainsaw stolen from the 300 block of Fawn Hill Drive outside Chehalis two weeks ago and then recovered at a pawn shop in White Center. Joel L. Kaech was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree burglary, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the detective had conducted an online search for the stolen property and discovered a pawn slip in which the suspect listed an address on the same street as the victim. Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges today.
NOT BURGLARY
• Chehalis police were called just before noon yesterday to the 1500 block of Southwest Thomsen Avenue where someone said two people had parked a truck and just busted through the back door of a vacant house. An officer contacted the couple and learned they were doing work for the bank-owner, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
CARPORT PROWLED
• Police were called yesterday morning to the 300 block of South Street in Centralia where someone had stolen a chop saw from a carport sometime during the previous week.
DRIVE-BY THEFT
• A contractor working in the area of Bridge Street and Harrison Avenue called police just before 1 p.m. yesterday after a passing motorist stopped, grabbed his tool bag, threw it in the back of his truck and drove off. The bag contained a transmitter-locator, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim told police the bluish/purple Dodge Ram 2500 had stopped in the road to steal the item, and then continued eastbound.
DISORDERLY PERSON
• A 51-year-old man described by police as transient was arrested yesterday evening for allegedly causing a disturbance when he was getting discharged. from the emergency room at Providence Centralia Hospital. Officers called about 6:30 p.m. to the 900 block of South Scheuber Road booked Jeffrey J Hanby into the Lewis County Jail for interfering with a health care facility, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter