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TOOL HEIST
• Chehalis police were called about 11:10 a.m. yesterday about a break-in to an outbuilding on the 1500 block of North National Avenue. Among the items taken sometime over the weekend were a Milwaukee sawzall, a Ryobi 18-volt charger, a Ryobi impact driver, a Stihl hand-held blower, two more Stihl blowers and a 20-inch power saw chain, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There are no suspects, according to police.
• Centralia police were called to the 900 block of West Pear Street about 5 p.m. yesterday to take a report of a burglary to a garage. A generator was taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN
• A deputy was called yesterday to the 600 block of Nevil Road in Winlock to take a report of a possible attempted burglary. The resident found screens removed from two windows and a key broken in a lock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
DRUGS
• When police were called by an individual who said there were three males trespassing on his property at the 1000 block of Northwest Prindle Street in Chehalis just before 2 p.m. yesterday, one of them was taken into custody for an outstanding warrant and subsequently suspected methamphetamine was found in his jacket pocket, according to authorities. Joseph K. Hansen, 23, from Centralia, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A 24-year-old Chehalis woman went before a judge today, charged with first-degree theft in connection with more than $24,000 allegedly missing from her workplace, a liquor and wine store at the Twin City Town Center where she was employed from December until March. Amberly M. Morehead reportedly told police she got behind on her bills, took money from work and intended to pay it back but kept getting further behind. Chehalis police began investigating on March 26 when the manager reported he had suspicions of internal theft, according to charging documents. The manager told police the cash reports came up short nearly every time Morehead worked, but it didn’t happen with other employees, according to the documents. He showed the officer video images that indicated her selling bottles of whiskey, but not scanning them or printing a receipt and provided paperwork that showed $1,850 cash taken from the store, refunds of $4,756.29 Morehead allegedly made to herself and $17,987.33 in alleged fraudulent returns to herself, according to the court documents. Charges were filed on Sept. 1 and Morehead was summonsed to appear this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. A judge allowed her to remain free on a $10,000 unsecured bond and set her arraignment for Sept. 29.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, malicious mischief, driving under the influence, driving with no license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, third-degree theft, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 167 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