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Updated at 10:26 a.m.
DOMESTIC ISSUE PROMPTS SEARCH
• Centralia Middle and High schools were put on precautionary lockdowns yesterday while law enforcement searched for a man who allegedly punched out a bedroom window in anger, at the 800 block of Cowlitz Road in Centralia. Deputies called about noon learned that Mark S. Chesler Jr. had fled the area and also that his presence at the home was in violation of a no contact order, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The area was searched, including with a police dog and Chesler was taken into custody after a 911 call about a person seen trying to enter a camp trailer at the 3100 block of Laurel Lane, according to the sheriff’s office. Chesler, 36, also had four outstanding misdemeanor warrants, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. He was arrested for third-degree malicious mischief, the order violation, the warrants and then booked in to the Lewis County Jai, according to Breen.
PROWLING
• Chehalis police were called about 7:10 a.m. today to the 700 block of Northwest Maryland Avenue where someone had entered a locked, fenced area and broken into three vehicles.
• A 38-year-old Centralia resident seen by an officer trying to get inside a vehicle that did not belong to him at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue was subsequently arrested for attempted vehicle prowl yesterday. It happened around 4:15 p.m., according to the Centralia Police Department. The subject tried to flee, the officer detained him, according to police. Ranier P. Wagner was booked into the Lewis County Jail also for obstructing and resisting arrest, according to police.
• An officer was called just after 9 a.m. yesterday to take a report of a vehicle prowl at the 1100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. Paperwork was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ABUSE INVESTIGATION
• Chehalis police were called to a school on the 200 block of Southwest Market Boulevard at 9:45 a.m. yesterday to take a report of possible child abuse. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUGS
• A deputy responded to the Lewis County Jail about 9:15 p.m. yesterday to take a report about an person being booked who allegedly was in possession of methamphetamine. Troy L. Fadness, 52, of Centralia, was interviewed and a field test was conducted that came out positive for meth, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called to the 300 block of Wilding Drive in Centralia just after 8 o’clock yesterday morning where sometime during the night, someone had slashed the tire on a car.
SMOKE CHASES INHABITANTS FROM HOME
• Firefighters called around noon yesterday about a possible fire in a mobile home on the 500 block of state Route 508 found light smoke showing and the residents outside, according to Lewis County Fire District 5. They found that wiring on a furnace had burned, Firefighter Sam Heldreth said. The damage was limited to the wiring, she said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, littering, trespassing, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, person who keeps sleeping in an alley … and more among 128 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