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Updated at 5:38 p.m.
BLOODY HEAD AND SPIT
• A 25-year-old man who got upset when he was asked to leave a downtown Centralia business yesterday morning ended up getting arrested for two felonies. Police called about 9:50 a.m. to the 100 block of North Tower Avenue told the man the restaurant didn’t want him there and he just needed to go, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer decided to arrest him for trespassing and once in the back of a patrol car, he reportedly got out of control, banging his head, police said. Sgt. Dave Clary said he bled all over inside the police car so he was arrested for second-degree malicious mischief. He allegedly spit blood at an officer so he was arrested for third-degree assault, according to Clary. Andrew A. Zech, 25, of Wilton, Connecticut, was taken to the hospital to be checked out and subsequently booked into the Lewis County Jail, Clary said.
RV THEFT
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning a 16-foot travel trailer went missing from property at the 200 block of Jarvis Road in Mossyrock. A deputy who responded to the report on Monday learned it had been parked there about a week and vanished sometime between 7 p.m. on Sunday and 8 a.m. on Monday, according to the sheriff’s office.
BAD BILL
• Someone tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a business on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called to the 1700 block of Providence Lane just before 8:30 a.m. yesterday for a vehicle prowl. Miscellaneous tools were stolen during the night, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone stole a garage door remote opener from a vehicle parked at the 1700 block of Providence Lane in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 8:10 a.m. yesterday.
DRUGS
• A 40-year-old Rochester man was arrested yesterday after a search of a residence in which drug detectives found a Tupperware container with approximately one-quarter ounce of meth, a digital scale, plastic baggies and $190 cash. Dallas L. Hale-Pogue allegedly had twice sold meth to a confidential informant sometime since Sept. 1, according to court documents. Hale-Pogue was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with two counts of delivery of methamphetamine and one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver. Charging documents state the search by members of the Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team took place at Hale-Pogue’s home in Lewis County, although temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told a judge this afternoon he resides in Rochester. His bail was set at $25,000.
• A 51-year-old Mossyrock man pulled over by a trooper yesterday and subsequently found to have outstanding misdemeanor warrants was arrested for possession of methamphetamine. When the trooper searched Jeffrey A. Lowe’s sweatshirt, he found a glass smoking device with residue that field tested positive for meth, according to court documents. Lowe was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a 16-year-old student was caught with marijuana at Winlock High School on Monday. A deputy called to the school about 5 p.m. that day learned from the athletic director the boy was asked about it and handed it over, according to the sheriff’s office. The case is being referred to juvenile prosecutors, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
PRUNO FOUND INSIDE JAIL
• A 23-year-old inmate at the Lewis County Jail seen disposing of three bottles of “Pruno” yesterday was arrested for possession by prisoner, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responding about 9:20 p.m. used a portable breath test to see that each of the bottles showed an alcohol concentration, according to the sheriff’s office. Calvin E. Holder, from Olympia, was being held in the jail on an unrelated matter, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. The material was sent to the state crime lab for testing, according to Been. Pruno is a nickname for a homemade alcoholic drink.
BEER ON THE STREET
• Chehalis police ended up arresting a 54-year-old Vader resident yesterday after calls about a drunken individual laying by a bus stop and yelling at people. Officers responding the second time to the area at the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard arrested Ronald W. Carpenter for having an open container in public and for second-degree trespassing, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for unrelated issues, according to police.
BURNING IMPALA DOUSED
• Firefighters were called about 1:40 a.m. today when the driver of a car filling with smoke pulled over the near the 600 block of Main Street in Chehalis. The occupants grabbed their stuff and jumped out, but the 2003 Chevrolet Impala was fully involved in flames when the crew arrived, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. They put the fire out, Capt. Casey Beck said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, 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.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter