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Updated at 5:32 p.m.
CRITICAL CRASH IN CENTRALIA
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning a 58-year-old Centralia man remains in critical condition following a motorcycle crash at the 100 block of Joppish Road outside Centralia yesterday morning. A deputy arriving just before 7:30 a.m. yesterday found the 2008 Harley Davidson was totaled and its operator had suffered internal injuries after colliding with a road sign, according to the sheriff’s office. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. He had been wearing a helmet. Breen said it appeared speed was involved as the motorcycle rider had been northbound and failed to negotiate a curve.
FOOD FIGHT
• A 42-year-old man angry because someone stole his Lunchable allegedly used a large piece of lumber to strike a tent that was occupied last night in a wooded area off the 1700 block of Airport Road outside Centralia. A deputy responding about 10:15 p.m. learned the victim, a 54-year-old Centralia woman, sustained a large lump on her left cheekbone, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Douglas M. Martin, also from Centralia, was arrested for third-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.
AUTO THEFT
• Police called about 1:20 p.m. yesterday when a 2006 Saturn was discovered missing from the parking lot at Wal-Mart in Chehalis. The keys had been left inside the unlocked car, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Not long afterward, an officer driving through the parking lot at Twin City Town Center, also on Northwest Louisiana Avenue, spotted the unoccupied car, which still had a purse in it, although a cell phone and medications were missing, according to police.
• Centralia police were called just before 12:30 p.m. yesterday when a block 1995 Honda Accord was discovered missing from the 100 block of West High Street.
• Chehalis police were called just before 8:30 a.m. yesterday when a 1997 Honda Accord was discovered missing from the 1000 block of Southwest 20th Street. The car was located about 3 p.m. at the Chehalis reservation and the owner notified to come and retrieve it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
BURGLARY CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called about 4:15 p.m. yesterday to a residence on the 1000 block of Centralia Avenue where they were told that checks and household items had been stolen during the previous several weeks.
TOOLS TAKEN CHEHALIS
• A deputy responded yesterday to a report that a family member was suspected of taking a floor jack and some tools from the 100 block of Kennicott Road outside Chehalis. Bradley J. Economou, 26, of Chehalis, who wasn’t supposed to be at the residence, was contacted and subsequently arrested for residential burglary and then booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was released today when prosecutors declined to file the felony charge.
YARD THEFT CENTRALIA
• An officer was called to the 1400 block of Crescent Avenue in Centralia yesterday to take a report that sometime during the night someone stole a lighthouse cross ornament from their yard.
OTHER THEFT
• An officer was called just before 10 a.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue to take a report that groceries had been stolen and alcohol was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• An 18-year-old Centralia resident was arrested yesterday in connection with a $775 cell phone stolen while its owner’s son had it while swimming at the Adna trestle the day before. Mikel J. Herren was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft and possession of stolen property, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
FRAUD
• An individual contacted Centralia police yesterday from the 1000 block of Swanson Drive to report that someone in California had opened a credit card account using their name.
• An officer was called yesterday to Providence Centralia Hospital to take a report that someone had used a false identity when they received care. A victim was billed for services, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation, according to police.
CAR PROWL
• A jewelry box was stolen from a vehicle parked at the 700 block of Ham Hill Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 3:45 p.m. yesterday.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A 20-year-old Chehalis resident was charged today for allegedly beating a person she suspected was a confidential police informant, punching the person in the face at least 10 times while her companion tore up and cut up the person’s clothing with a small knife. Charging documents say only it occurred in Lewis County sometime after Jan.1 of this year. Stevi L. Taylor was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Sunday night for what appears from the facility’s online roster to be a warrant for failing to appear in court on a misdemeanor theft case. Taylor has no felony convictions in her past but is now charged with intimidating a witness, an offense with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Charging documents state the incident occurred when drug detectives set up a controlled buy operation for an informant to purchase heroin from Taylor and her companion, and someone present saw a message on the person’s phone from a local drug detective. Her bail was set at $10,000. Her arraignment is tomorrow in Lewis County Superior Court.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, third-degree theft, misdemeanor assault, probation violation, driving with no license; responses for alarm, dispute, disorderly person, collision on city street, someone spotted going to bathroom in bushes behind park and ride … and more among 163 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
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard!!! No I don’t have Facebook!! I’m not into drama, thanks tho! I get enough entertainment reading comments on this page!! Hahaha
I can no longer use Facebook since I was seeing a Shrink for a Bad case of Facebook Addiction. I was up to 12 hours a day at one point, lost my home, my dog , my wife and my damm laptop all over Facebook. If you’re hooked I reccomend you get professional help too. You can’t fight it alone.
Hey Peabody!! Go to her Lewis co sirens public Facebook page!! She don’t care what’s posted on there!! It’s pretty disgusting!!! U’ll fit right in!! Hehehe
Re: The latest serious motorcycle accident. It had my curiosity, so I typed in motorcycle wrecks in the upper right search window. There’s – not surprisingly – a lot of hits on that subject. I noticed a distinct pattern, this most recent wreck also fitting the pattern.
The over whelming majority of accident victims being adults over the age of forty. Many 55+, Harley Davidson seemingly the riders the brand of choice.
Interesting.
I hate Censorship I am on Topic. Lewis County USSR
And the Honda thefts Continue with no game plan to crack down on these specific vehicles being stolen. I’m really starting to wonder how many police man hours are being devoted to dealing with the theft reports. Plenty of money to investigate marijuana grow labs yet CPD and LCSO falls short on property crimes that involve an auctual victim. Once again I will give my advice on the Honda’s it’s real simple and costs just a few hundred dollars. Advice rigjht here. When a Honda is impounded and not recovered by the owner, instead of auctioning it off, use the car as a bait car with a GPS Tracker and a remote engine kill switch. Then place car on the streets so the bait can be seen by the Honda Theives. This is how it’s done and this is how we make efforts to protect people’s property. I’m pretty sure that the City officials are just coming here to shit in our back yard and pick up a Paycheck.Things can change but it takes effort and problem solving skills. Remember all the sand bags laying all over the streets of Centralia a few years back? Those sand bags were in piles and rotting after years of neglect. (Abandoned) Notice you dont see them anymore? That’s right I had to go to jail for this community’s eye sore that littered our community.I’m sure I could of asked them if they would pick them up but after 7 years I’m pretty sure they didn’t even care. Yes the Centralia Kangaroo Court tried to charge me with 2 counts of theft for drawing smiley faces, writing city offical’s names on the abandoned bags, and lets not forget the nice ballons I attached to them. I did all of this at the city hall, they just could’nt understand why it was being done in such a manner. In their rubber police report they claimed they were protecting building. Even with the sand bags falling apart they still claimed I stole city Property, Needles to say I challenged their Jurisdiction.and the case was dropped. So in all I was out 1000 dollars for bail and two hours in jail. Now when you drive through town you no longer see the piles of abandoned city waste. The outcome Priceless. Now when it comes to the bait car We dont need the police, we can do it ourselves, just one citizen can stop these car thefts or atleast put the fear in the theives. I no longer feel the spirit I once had to help on this city. Remember that guy that spent two weeks cleaning up Tower Ave? I sure do, I had a gun pointed at me by the No body Dash Camera Police Peace Officers. Needless to say my caring stopped right there. This City will always be a pile of shit if you don’t force change. Me I’m done I won’t give until there is real change. Like I said about the car theft problem, the solution is on the table. How many more Centralian’s will be without a car just because our Peace Keepers are not problem solvers.
Some kind if stupid….Wal Mart, unlocked car with keys and purse in it. SMH.
Looks like someone got a healty dose of the drinking water here in Centralia. No brain no headache they say.
Park in the WalMart lot and walk away with your keys, cell phone and purse left behind in your unlocked car. What could possibly go wrong?