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ATTEMPTED CAR THEFT
• An officer was called to the Twin City Town Center in Chehalis just after 10 p.m. yesterday when an individual discovered someone had broken in to their vehicle and damaged the steering column.
ELUDING
• An officer tried to make a traffic stop about 4:40 a.m. today at the 900 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and the small passenger car fled onto Interstate 5 at a high rate of speed, according to the Centralia Police Department. The investigation is ongoing, police reported this morning.
OUT-OF-CONTROL
• Chehalis police responded to calls of a man screaming, yelling and kicking over sidewalk sandwich board downtown about 4:20 p.m. yesterday and arrested 33-year-old Michael Hilton for disorderly conduct. Hilton, in talking to police, indicated he was a physicist and was building an aircraft, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was booked into jail.
DRUGS
• Police were called about 12:20 p.m. yesterday to a home on Northwest Middle Street in Chehalis for a possible burglary. They found the 18-year-old relative of the owner there and subsequently arrested him for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Booked into the Lewis County Jail was Brandon L. Caley.
TRESPASS ON TRACKS
• Chehalis police were called about 8:15 p.m. by BNSF and advised there someone on the railroad tracks around North National Avenue, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, first-degree assault, probation violation, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor assault, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, call for an injured robin … and more, among 152 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter