Lewis County Sirens.com

Updated at 5 p.m.

RETAIL EMPLOYEE BOOKED FOR THEFT

• An 18-year-old Rochester resident was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing merchandise from her Centralia employer. Police called just before 9 p.m. to the 100 block of West High Street arrested Esmeralda Sanchez Carpio, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree theft and organized retail theft, according to police.

MISSING LICENSE PLATE

• Centralia police were called about 8:50 a.m. yesterday to the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue where an individual reported the theft of their  license plate from off of their vehicle. The Washington plate reads ABS 3311, according to the Centralia Police Department.

COUNTERFEIT CASH

• Centralia police took reports from two businesses yesterday about receiving counterfeit $100 bills the day before. One was at the 600 block of North Tower Avenue and the other at the 800 block of North Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 41-year-old Pe Ell man was arrested yesterday for possession of methamphetamine after being contacted by police at the 1100 block of state Route 6 about 3:20 p.m. yesterday in what was initially and erroneously believed to be a stolen vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers later learned the vehicle Shane Pedersen was driving had previously been stolen and then recovered, but not removed from law enforcement’s system as stolen, according to police. Pedersen was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

HOUSE FIRE TOLEDO

• Members of four fie departments responded to a residential structure fire around 11 a.m. yesterday at the 5500 block of Jackson Highway, according to Lewis County 911 Communications. Further details were not readily available.

SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE

• A 23-year-old Centralia resident was arrested and brought before a judge yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court, charged with second-degree rape following an investigation that began in April when a 16-year-old girl reported he forced himself on her a few nights earlier when she and a friend met two guys at Schaeffer Park outside Centralia. When Juvencio E. Ayala Rodriguez was contacted by a deputy in August, he told the deputy he did not do anything inappropriate and the girl wanted it, according to charging documents. He was picked up on a warrant and booked into the Lewis County Jail on Tuesday. A judge yesterday afternoon ordered him held in lieu of $25,000 bail.

‘ESCORT’ MET ON BACKPAGE.COM BOOKED FOR ROBBERY

• A 26-year-old woman pleaded not guilty today for her alleged role in the robbery of a rural Chehalis man, who had invited her to his home after making contact on Backpage.com at the end of April. The victim was attacked, tied up and pistol whipped by two males who arrived after the woman did, according to court documents. The Pierce County men were arrested, charged, pleaded guilty and then sentenced to prison terms this summer. Among the valuables missing after his assailants left were his television and some checkbooks. Court documents indicate a deputy used the website the victim had first contacted her on, conducted a Google photo search and was able to locate a phone number associated with Toyleasha J. Greene, according to court documents. A warrant served on Greene’s mobile phone provider showed her phone was in Lewis County the night of the robbery, court documents relate. Greene was charged in Lewis County Superior Court in July with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and also with first-degree kidnapping. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Monday. Her bail is set at $100,000. Defense attorney Shane O’Rourke said his client pleaded not guilty this afternoon.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, protection order violation, hit and run, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street; complaint of more than 20 cars running a red light during  20-minute period at South Market Boulevard and Second Street in Chehalis  … 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

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