Updated at 11:29 a.m.
AUTO THEFT
• A red 2007 Ford Mustang disappeared from where it had been left a Schaeffer Park in Centralia, according to a report made about 10 a.m. yesterday to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Its owner, a Bucoda resident, said he parked the car there off the 800 block of state Route 507 about 5 p.m. on Tuesday and when he returned on Wednesday morning to pick it up, it was gone, according to the sheriff’s office.
• Centralia police were called about 1:10 p.m. yesterday to a car dealer on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue to take a report that a potential customer who took a truck for a test drive never returned. The vehicle is described as a green 1989 GMC 1500 pickup and has a Washington state dealers’ license reading 3909G, according to the Centralia Police Department. The suspect is identified as Joseph T. Little, 54, according to police.
MISSING MEDS
• Centralia police were called about 7:35 p.m. yesterday to the 400 block of West Main Street to take a report of prescription medications stolen from the home.
SHOPLIFT OF INFANT FOOD
• Chehalis police were called about 8:10 p.m. yesterday to Safeway on South Market Boulevard where two females were reported to have stole a shopping cart-full of baby formula. An officer was told they got into a green car and fled, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
• An officer was called to a residence on the 1500 block of Delaware Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning, following a report from Centralia City Light that a meter had been tampered with
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Centralia police gave up trying to catch a car that fled an attempted traffic stop around 7:15 a.m. yesterday, for safety reasons, according to the Centralia Police Department. The incident associated with the 100 block of West Maple Street involved a minor traffic violation and a 2002 Dodge Neon, according to police. The car made several turns on various roads in an effort to lose the pursuing officer. Officers have its license plate numbers and continue to investigate, police indicate.
UPDATE TO UNFOUNDED STABBING REPORT
• Chehalis police this morning said they don’t know why a 28-year-old woman called for help yesterday morning, saying she had been stabbed. She went to a neighbor’s for help, at the apartments at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street and officers looked for a time for a supposed suspect who they were told had fled. At the hospital, she was found to have no injury, police said. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said this morning he couldn’t say for sure if she lied, had a medical event or maybe even just a nightmare.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, third-degree domestic malicious mischief, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
John makes a valid point. I’ve been reading Sirens for a long time and you’re right, there sure are a lot of suspicious reports of prescription drugs mysteriously disappearing from people’s medicine cabinets popping up here all the time. They always manage to sneak in the words “unspecified” medication, which would make it real tempting to assume the missing pills were Dilauded, OxyContin, or Valium.
I guess the reading public is to just assume that even though the person who made the complaint knew they were missing some meds, they couldn’t remember what those meds were.
Seems legit.
I think a lot of these numbers are inflated because matching funds of some kind are given by the fed govt. I would be willing to bet there is some kind of a govt program that says if an agency takes $1,000 of drugs off the street they receive $1,000 of federal money or something really stupid like that. There is probably another one to “fight drugs” that says if something is even reported they will get more money. That is a magnet for fraud. Every granny who reports a stolen aspirin now becomes a 500 count bottle of OxyContin stolen from her unlocked car that nobody ever saw. Or someone mysteriously came into her house and just took it while her doors where locked and there is no sign of forced entry. Simply amazing.
How many people just walk into your house and take your prescription drugs and disappear? It has never happened to me. Ever. Why? I don’t hang out with scumbags, abuse drugs myself, I lock my doors, I have dogs and guns and nobody is coming in here without my knowing it.
Is this a crime that “could” happen? Uh huh. Right up there with the fraudulent debit card usage thefts that happen. They take reports on things they know are bogus to pad crime stats so they can hire more officers. If they can charge someone with a false report and solve the case that’s an easy clearance rate. Centralia, on the other hand, isn’t interested in clearing cases.
The real amount of drugs taken off the streets is always exaggerated and sometimes blown out of proportion completely. It’s extremely rare for the value of seized drugs to match their street value in the amounts they were intended. Is it a coincidence that the Federal Government gives more of our tax dollars to police agencies that, at least of paper, appear to have heavy drug trafficking going on? I don’t think so. With crime rates at historic lows and with so many people being careful trying not to break every little law for which there is a hefty fine, is it any surprise that that police agencies are lacking funding? It’s clear that the police will do and say whatever they need to try to create any worst-possible-case scenario that they can to keep our tax dollars flowing into their little slush funds so they can buy bigger guns, faster cars, and more bullets, but not body cams. They can’t afford body cams. Crime isn’t THAT bad.
They are supposed to work for the public. Why would they want to keep anything a secret much less such good news? We all know the answer to that question dont we? If i was part of such a crooked operation i guess i would be as secretive as i could as well. Very ugly business indeed.
gee ramon i’m sure they’ll be more than happy to provide you with such a detailed list of their activities…NOT. file a public information request and stop making yourself sound like a whiny little boy on here.
3,000,000 is that including bribes?
Will jnet list the drug seizures and amounts of drugs seized that evidently added up to $3,000,000 in the first six months of 2015 in LewisCounty? I want the specific arrests and dollar amounts of drugs associated with each. Kara Kostanich reported in a story that komo news recklessly aired and took at face value that 3,000,000 in drugs were taken off the streets of lewis county in the first six months of 2015.I am anxious to see how these numbers were arrived at. Its time for accountability gentlemen. If the numbers are fraudulent as i suspect i want a retraction and the readers deserve an apology.