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Updated at 5:38 p.m.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called just before 1 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of West Third Street to take a report about the theft of a 1994 Honda Civic. The car is blue with a black hood, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 24-year-old Pe Ell woman was arrested yesterday for possession of a stolen vehicle in connection with a 2000 Dodge Caravan recovered on Monday night at the 100 block of Mauermann Road in Pe Ell. The owner, from Raymond, retrieved the van but the arrest was not made until witnesses were contacted to make a positive identification, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Angelina M. Tomburello was contacted yesterday, taken into custody without incident and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sherif’s office.
• Officers called about 2:35 p.m. yesterday about a car being moved from one spot to another at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street and a notebook left inside determined the owner of the notebook was a recent victim of a car theft. Her Honda Civic was recovered in the area with all four tires flattened, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
TWO ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY
• Centralia police arrested two individuals about 10 a.m. yesterday for second-degree burglary in a case associated with the 1200 block of St. Helens Street. Jennifer L. Barber, 40, of Mossyrock, and Stanley A. J. Pesicka, 33, a homeless person, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. The two were caught allegedly taking household items from a home which has been unoccupied for several years.
FRAUD
• An individual called Chehalis police yesterday to report one of her bank cards from her recently stolen wallet in Tumwater was used at the Wal-Mart in Chehalis. Police are following up, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• A 600-watt generator was stolen from bed of a pickup truck parked at the 1100 block of G Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.
TIP THEFT ARREST
• A 42-year-old Chehalis woman contacted about 7 a.m. today at North Pearl Street and Reynolds Avenue was arrested for an outstanding warrant as well as cited for third-degree theft as police identified her as the suspect who early yesterday morning stole approximately $5 from a tip jar at a business on the 1100 block of View Avenue in Centralia. Genaveve R. Webb was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
WALLET STOLEN
• Centralia police were called at 12:10 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of South Tower Avenue where an individual said while she was on her phone, someone stole her wallet which was sitting next to her, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor domestic assault, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, third-degree theft, hit and run, harassment, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 151 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