Lewis County Sirens.com

Updated at 4:12 p.m.

ASSAULT ON OFFICER

• A 32-year-old who allegedly scratched an officer’s arms while trying to break free as she was being detained for a warrant was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault last night. It was about 8:15 p.m. at the 1200 block of Mellen Street in Centralia when Jacqueline M. Kilmer was contacted by police, according to the Centralia Police Department. Kilmer, a Chehalis resident, was subsequently booked without further incident, according to police.

AUTO THEFT

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office yesterday evening recovered a stolen and burnt car near milepost 6 of the 3000 Line off Lincoln Creek Road. The red 2007 Ford Mustang belonging to a 21-year-old Bucoda resident had been taken from where it was parked at  Schaeffer Park in Centralia between Feb. 2 and on Feb. 3, according to the sheriff’s office. Someone abandoned it and set a fire inside, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning.

OTHER THEFT

• An officer took a report of the theft of cash from a briefcase while it was unattended at the 1400 block of Kresky Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday by a motorist who said while his vehicle was at the park and ride lot –  in the area off Main Street near Liberty Place – someone stole a Helly Hanson jacket, a Black and Decker drill and a Craftsman socket set. It happened between 8 p.m. on Monday and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police were called about 7:50 a.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue where an individual reported their purse-wallet was taken out of an unlocked vehicle while it was left unattended in a parking stall.

DRUGS

• Briana A Carrouthers, 32, of Chehalis was arrested and booked for outstanding warrants and possession of heroin after contact with an officer about 7:50 p.m. yesterday at the 1200 block of Mellen Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.  Prosecutors declined to file the felony drug charge today.

VANDALISM

• An officer was contacted just after noon yesterday at the Centralia Police Department to take a complaint that an individual’s vehicle was spray painted while it was parked unattended in Centralia. The owner wasn’t sure where it had occurred, according to the Centralia Police Department.

UNWELCOME MESSAGES

• Chehalis police were called about 6:40 p.m. yesterday by an individual on Northwest New York Avenue who reported being harassed on Facebook by someone. The complaint was handled with a phone call, according to a spokesperson for the Chehalis Police Department.

• The Lewis County Coroner’s Office alerted Chehalis police yesterday morning they had received a death threat via voice mail message a week earlier. The victim said it sounded almost mechanical or even computer generated, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An officer discovered the phone number it came from appeared to belong to a landline near Baghdad, Iraq, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. The message essentially warned, “be careful, someone’s going to kill you,” Bailey said. A report was taken for informational purposes, according to police.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Police and aid responded to an approximately 3:30 a.m. wreck today where a big rig hauling lumber northbound on Interstate 5 at Chehalis left the freeway and came to rest in a swampy area near Northwest Maryland Avenue. The driver was uninjured, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. The semi took out several feet of fencing and spilled lumber, according to the Washington State Patrol. The driver, a 42-year-old resident of Camas, was cited for wheels off roadway and the inspection showed a brake on the trailer was out of adjustment, according to Trooper Will Finn.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor theft, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, receipt of counterfeit $20 bill … and more, among the 166 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6 a.m. today

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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