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VIOLENCE
• Police are looking for a 40-year-old Centralia man who allegedly caused extensive damage to his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle last night at the 400 block of Prairie Rose Street in Centralia. Officers called about 6:40 p.m. were told that Steven G. Ward threatened her and prevented her from leaving, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is being referred to prosecutors for charges of unlawful imprisonment, felony harassment and first-degree malicious mischief, according to police.
• Centralia police were called just before 9:30 p.m. yesterday about an assault at the 600 block of H Street in which a young woman said she met up with an acquaintance to work out some differences and was hit in the head with a stick. The person had brought a friend along to meet the victim, according to the Centralia Police Department. The injuries were minor but officer are looking for the suspect for second-degree assault, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called about 5:35 p.m. yesterday to a business on North Market Boulevard about a customer who allegedly took a swing at an employee after he was asked to leave. Police were told he wouldn’t speak when employees at Les Schwab tried to talk him and they finally had asked him to go, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Employees held him down until officers arrive, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for disorderly conduct was Samuel P. Kaye-Rau, 22, from Morton, according to Kaut.
• An individual at the 400 block of Southwest 15th Street in Chehalis called police at 12:40 p.m. yesterday that one of their chickens was killed and another injured. “They think it was a dog, but they didn’t see it happen,” Chehalis Police Department Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said.
THEFT OF MONEY
• Chehalis police called about a ruckus in a motel lobby on the 100 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue about 6:10 p.m. yesterday arrested a 27-year-old man from Federal Way who allegedly had gotten into the cash drawer behind the counter before leaving in a motor home now suspected to have been stolen. Officers stopped the vehicle and took Frisco A. Falcon into custody, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail. They are seeking a search warrant to get inside the motor home to look through what appears to be stolen property, Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said this morning.
BABY BY ITSELF
• Chehalis police were called about 2:10 p.m. yesterday by an individual who said a baby had been left alone in a parked vehicle on Northwest Louisiana Avenue. The officer could not locate the suspect vehicle, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called to the 1000 block of Northwest State Avenue about 8:30 a.m. yesterday following the discovery someone had broken the glass on the front door of a business. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Both vehicles appeared seriously damaged but both drivers said they were unhurt after a car crossed the centerline and struck an oncoming vehicle yesterday morning at the 300 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning, according to authorities. Firefighters and police called about 7:45 a.m. One driver was a 16-year-old girl and the other an 18-year-old man, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, disorderly person, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, collision on city street … and more among 148 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
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Harrison Avenue in Centralia on Tuesday morning. / Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter