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Updated at 5:58 p.m.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called about 7:30 a.m. yesterday after a worker at a business on the 1500 block of Lum Road came in to find someone rummaging through employee lockers. A K-9 track was initiated but another officer spotted a suspect running and stopped him before the dog caught up to him, according to the Centralia Police Department.  Christopher L. Wessels, 32, a homeless person was arrested for second-degree burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

HIDDEN FIREARM

• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart just before 2 p.m. yesterday because a customer came in and asked if the store could hold onto his gun. He was told no and to go outside and when an officer arrived, the 55-year-old Glenoma resident reportedly had the handgun in his interior jacket pocket, but didn’t have a concealed pistol license, according to the Chehalis Police Department. David W. Peterson was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. A department spokesperson said she did not know the reason for his request to the employee at the store.

OTHER THEFT

• Centralia police were called to a home on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue about 3:45 p.m. yesterday to take a report that jewelry had been stolen. Possible suspect information was provided by the victim, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 58-year-old rural Chehalis man who allegedly shot a deer with two pistols in a neighbor’s field, out of season – and asked the property owner not to report him – was allowed to remain free pending trial with a $10,000 unsecured bond when he went before a judge today in Lewis County Superior Court. Peter P. Petta is charged with the class C felony of witness tampering, a misdemeanor and two gross misdemeanors for his alleged actions off the 3000 block of Jackson Highway last month. Charging documents state the neighbor called 911 on Oct. 11 after finding Petta in his field standing next to the dead buck; on property posted “No Hunting.” Petta reportedly told officers with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife he was inside his trailer when he saw three to four deer in the field, grabbed his 9 mm and his 22 and shot the buck. He is also charged with second-degree unlawful hunting of big game, hunting wildlife on the property of another and hunting with a firearm with a barrel of less than four inches. He was summonsed to court and when he appeared before Judge James Lawler this afternoon, asked for a court-appointed lawyer. Lawler told him his household earned too much to qualify and told him to return for his arraignment on Dec. 1.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, third-degree malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, fraud, civil issue, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, unconscious person laying on a curb … and more among 144 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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