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BLAST OUTSIDE BOWLING ALLEY UNDER INVESTIGATION
• An explosion that drew police to the 800 block of South Market Boulevard over the weekend appears to have resulted from dynamite or something similar, Chehalis police said today. Several people called 911 to report hearing an explosion and authorities were told a man was laying on the ground behind the bowling alley just before 6 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An arriving officer found a person sitting up against the building, police said. He was unhurt but was intoxicated, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. He told police that “cars with CIA people pulled up and set off a nuclear bomb next to him,” Bailey said. An arson investigator from the fire department was summoned and found a small amount of damage to the cinderblock structure and also recovered debris from the blast, according to Bailey. Bailey said there was at least one report of a vehicle in the area but it was gone when police arrived. The incident is under investigation, she said.
SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORTED
• Centralia police are investigating a report of a rape at a motel on the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue from last night. An officer contacted just before 8 p.m. indicates the two were traveling together and the 34-year-old man from Lakewood said it was a consensual sexual encounter while the 30-year-old woman from Murrieta, Calif. said she was raped, according to the Centralia Police Department. The investigation is ongoing, according to police.
UNCOOPERATIVE TRIO
• Three people were arrested for obstructing a law enforcement officer when police responded to the 700 block of Euclid Way in Centralia about 8:30 p.m. yesterday. Bryant R. Elliott 19 of Vancouver, was cited and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department. Cited and booked into the Lewis County Jail were Bradly M. Elliott, 25, of Centralia; and Haiden A.A. Cole, 19, of Pe Ell, according to police. Bradly Elliott was also arrested for violating a domestic violence protection order, according to police.
CELL PHONE TRACKED
• Centralia police took a report yesterday from an individual who said she lost her cell phone the night before at a business on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. She was able to locate it by the GPS at a location in Thurston County and the phone was subsequently recovered by the Thurston County Sheriffs Office, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• Deputies called about 1:20 p.m. on Saturday to the 200 block of Clinton Road found that Justine K. Abbott, 26, had brought an acquaintance to her parents home and while there, the acquaintance allegedly took clothing and a cell phone from Abbott’s sister’s room. Deputies subsequently arrested Abbott for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and booked her into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The 20-year-old friend was picked up by Centralia police for an outstanding warrant, sheriff’s Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. The sheriff’s office is referring a case for third-degree theft against the friend, according to Breen. All the items except the Note 3 cell phone were returned, Breen said.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called about 7:45 a.m. yesterday to the 200 block of East Van Buren Street where an individual reported unknown person or persons cut the hose from his propane tank to his travel trailer, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BACK TO NATURE
• A Chehalis police officer spotted someone going to the bathroom in a grassy area near the park and ride lot on the 800 block of West Main Street about 8:30 a.m. yesterday and issued a 66-year-old homeless man a citation for urinating/defecting in public, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, third-degree theft, hit and run, civil issue, unfounded report, suspicious circumstances, possible shoplifting, suicidal person, teenager being harassed by cell phone, possible theft of iPhone from a shopping cart … and more, among 115 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6:50 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter