AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 5:30 a.m. today about the theft of a truck from the 400 block of South Cedar Street. Missing is a maroon 1992 Mazda pickup truck, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A tow company which did a private impound from a parking lot on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis called police yesterday morning to report it was a stolen vehicle. The 2002 Dodge Durango was missing from Auburn and law enforcement there was asked to contact the registered owner, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
COURT ORDER VIOLATION
• A 44-year-old Chehalis man who reportedly was at a residence he was not allowed to be at on Southeast Spring Street in Chehalis was arrested yesterday after an approximately 2:40 p.m. 911 call. Jerry L. Bostwick was contacted in the area by an officer and booked into the Lewis County Jail for burglary and violation of a restraining order, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called yesterday by an individual who said someone stole a pair of earrings from his vehicle the night before at the 600 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue.
DRUGS
• A 23-year-old woman from Cinebar was arrested yesterday for possession of a controlled substance after someone reported seeing a female in a car in a parking lot who appeared to be smoking something from tin foil. An officer responding to Northwest Louisiana Avenue after the approximately 7:20 p.m. call subsequently located her vehicle at a freeway offramp, conducted a traffic stop and found suspected heroin, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Teanna M. Simmonds was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, probation violation, driving with no license, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, report that someone is living under a business’s stairwell, people believed to be “transients” going through trash, people believed to be “transients” in an area … and more among 136 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