HOMELESS MAN THROWS BEDROLL AT OFFICER
• A 57-year-old man who threw his bicycle and bedroll in the direction of a police officer and took up a fighting stance ended up get Tazed and then booked into jail overnight. Police were called about 2:15 a.m. about a suspicious person near North Tower Avenue and Center Street. The man had plugged a radio into an outdoor electrical outlet not meant for public use, according to Centralia police. When first asked for identification, the man pulled the cord and began to walk away shouting obscenities but then became combative, according to Sgt. Carl Buster. David R. Anderson, a homeless person, was arrested for obstructing a law enforcement officer, police reported.
ABANDONED CAR WAS STOLEN
• Centralia police are asking if anyone saw anybody near an abandoned vehicle found about 7:20 a.m. yesterday on North Pearl Street partway in the southbound lane just beyond the Skookumchuck Bridge. Officers impounded the maroon Saturn because it was a hazard, and then learned the car was stolen out of Thurston County, according to police.
“SO DOPE”
• Police were called yesterday afternoon to the 800 block of E Street where somebody had used florescent orange spray paint on a camper parked in an alley, leaving the words “so dope”, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GALLONS OF FUEL SPILL ONTO STREET
• The Chehalis Fire Department was called about 4:40 p.m. to the Market Street Market near 13th Street where an estimated 10 to 15 gallons of fuel had spilled and flowed down the street. Firefighter Adam Myer said they ended up spreading “kitty litter” well onto 12th street to soak up the fuel.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter