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Updated at 6:04 p.m.
HIGH-SPEED CHASE CONCLUDES ON DEAD END ROAD
• A trooper traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 12 sees a motorcyclist approaching from the opposite direction at more than 90 mph. The man on the motorcycle slows and waves as he passes the trooper, in the 55 mph zone. Trooper makes a U-turn and tries to catch up to the speeder, who pulls away at an estimated 113 mph, even going around two vehicles in a curvy no-passing zone. Motorcyclist turns off the highway onto Damron Road and trooper catches up just as motorcycle turns right on to Cindee Lane. A gravel, dead-end road. The 36-year-old biker loses control, lays bike on its side. The aforementioned pursuit occurred about 8 p.m. yesterday near Mossyrock, according to the allegations by authorities. As trooper is handcuffing Luke J. Foss, Foss mutters, “Shoot, that was dumb.” So says the Lewis County Prosecutors Office, which filed charges today for attempting to elude. The LaCenter resident was allowed release on a $10,000 signature bond, with an arraignment for the felony charge scheduled for May 26 in Lewis County Superior Court.
WINLOCK SHED BURGLED
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that someone broke into a storage shed a Winlock man rents out and stole a set of Toyo tires mounted on aluminum wheels, valued at $2,000, as well as a small square Sentry safe. The burglary at the 400 block of state Route 505 occurred sometime during the past month, according to the sheriff’s office.
POPSICLES STOLEN IN CENTRALIA BREAK-IN
• Deputies are considering the possibility that kids my be behind a burglary to an office at the 3100 block of Ives Road in Centralia, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday. Someone spray painted the letter “R” on a wall and stole several popsicles from a freezer, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The freezer door was left open, so that ice cream melted, Brown said. It happened around 9 p.m. on Friday, she said.
COMPUTER TAKEN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called about 12:15 p.m. yesterday regarding the theft of a laptop computer from the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard.
CHECK PRINTING SCHEME LEADS TO INCARCERATION
• A Cinebar man accused of using a printer to create fraudulent checks was sentenced to a bit more than six years in prison today. Richard R. Perry Jr., 37, was arrested on March 29 after a short police chase that ended in Onalaska. He pleaded guilty previously to numerous offenses in the case, as well as a first-degree identity theft from last August. This afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court, Perry also was sentenced for four counts of second-degree identity theft, two counts of unlawful factoring of a credit or payment card and attempting to elude. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office had been investigating Perry since the end of December. He reportedly told a deputy he received a check from a non-profit organization that feeds homeless people, scanned it into his computer, then would modify it to make it look like paychecks. Prosecutors said he traveled with the printer and computer in his vehicle. Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Nelson said this afternoon there were a lot of different victims and between the bank, account holder and merchants who cashed the checks, he’s still trying to figure out if and how much each victim lost. Perry’s was one of eight sentencing hearings scheduled for today in Lewis County Superior Court.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, no-contact order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, injured deer, misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances … and more, among 168 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