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ARMED, UNWELCOME VISITORS
• Centralia police were called about 11:30 p.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of Johnson Road where a woman told them two people came to her home armed with a rifle demanding the location of the previous resident who owed them money. The victim said it was a male and female and the gun was pointed at her, according to the Centralia Police Department. She didn’t know the previous resident, according to police. The incident is under investigation.
ILLEGAL KNIFE
• An officer on patrol came upon two young men on the ground hitting each other at North Market Boulevard and Cascade Avenue in Chehalis at about 12:45 a.m. today. Bystanders quickly moved away and neither of the two wanted to pursue charges against the other, according to the Chehalis Police Department. However, a spring loaded knife was located on one of them and he was cited for possession of a dangerous weapon, according to police. Cristian Ramirez-Dado, 18, from Centralia, was then released pending a court date, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called just before 6 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of South King Street to take a report a car had been stolen from there sometime during the previous three days. The white 1993 Acura Integra was subsequently recovered and returned to the owner, according to the Centralia Police Department. A deputy on routine patrol about 3:40 a.m. pulled the car over at the 3400 block of Harrison Avenue because of a defective headlight, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The driver, Daniel L. Carpenter, 39, from Salkum was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a stolen vehicle, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, someone throwing eggs at vehicles … and more among 131 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