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Updated at 5:38 p.m.
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called about 4:15 a.m. today for a burglary at a home on the 1300 block of Kulien Avenue. The victim is compiling a list of items stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Sometime between noon and 1:50 p.m. yesterday, someone broke a window to a residence on the 200 block of Chehalis Valley Drive outside Chehalis and stole a Dell laptop computer from a table. A Homelight chainsaw with a 40-inch bar was also discovered missing from an adjacent shop, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A deputy took a report yesterday of a burglary to a shop building on the 400 block of Drews Prairie Road outside Toledo in which an estimated $1,100 worth of tools were stolen including such items as a chop saw, skill saw, cordless drill and sawzall, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said this morning they arrested Donny R. Elliott, 40, Chehalis, yesterday for residential burglary in connection with a break-in at the 100 block of Chandler Road reported back on Aug. 18 in which a safe, cash and diamond rings were among the items missing. As much as $20,000 was stolen, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A case is being referred to prosecutors for charges against a 41-year-old Pe Ell man suspected to have been involved as well, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. Some of the property has been recovered, Breen said.
SELLING OTHER PEOPLE’S STUFF
• Deputies arrested a 27-year-old Chehalis man this weekend for allegedly selling a travel trailer that belonged to somebody else, using forged documents. Back on Aug. 25, Matthew M. Morris allegedly sold the 13-foot 1976 Trillium trailer from the 100 block of Sheridan Street in Centralia, belonging to a Tacoma resident. He accepted $50 cash from an Olympia man for the trailer, which is valued at $2,500, according to the sheriff’s office. It has been recovered, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. Morris was already in jail on an unrelated matter, but was booked Sunday for second-degree theft and forgery, Breen said.
AUTO THEFT
• A stolen Honda Accord was recovered yesterday evening abandoned at the 1100 block of E Street in Centralia and returned to its owner. It had been taken from the 200 block of West Oakview Avenue around July 23, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 39-year-old man from Edmonds was arrested yesterday evening after a police officer in Morton “ran the plate” on the car he was driving on Second Street and discovered it was stolen out of Seattle about 2 a.m. the day before. The officer allegedly found in the Honda a plastic smoking device that contained a substance that field tested positive for meth as well as three bank cards in the driver’s pocket with other people’s names on them, according to charging documents. Anthony H. Laico said he borrowed the car from a friend but was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for escape from community custody from the state Department of Corrections. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of methamphetamine and escape from community custody.
CAR PROWL
• An officer was called about 1:10 p.m. yesterday for a vehicle prowl at the 1000 block of E Street in Centralia. A window had been broken out and “items” stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called to the 1300 block of Logan Street about 11:50 p.m. yesterday where someone had stolen tools from a truck.
PHYSICAL ALTERCATION CHIPS TOOTH
• Chehalis police called about 10:45 p.m. on Saturday about a fight between two clients at American Behavioral Health Services on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue ended up arresting a 26-year-old who allegedly punched the other guy in the face, causing him to get lightheaded and leaving him with a chipped tooth. Purcell D. Toston Jr., from Seattle, was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with third-degree assault.
MORE ‘PRUNO’ UNCOVERED INSIDE JAIL
• Two inmates were arrested on Saturday after a shakedown at the Lewis County Jail for second-degree introducing contraband. Jared A. Heminger, 21, Rochester, was allegedly found in possession of a hypodermic needle and Tristen J. Allender, 22, Olympia, was allegedly making “Pruno,” according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office today declined to file the felony charges.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor domestic assault, third-degree malicious mischief, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, suspicious circumstances … and more among 135 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