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Updated at 5:38 p.m.

DRIVE-THRU RAGE

• A 65-year-old was woman apologizing after bumping the vehicle ahead of her at the Centralia KFC drive-thru was attacked and knocked down by the other motorist yesterday. Police called to the 600 block of West Main Street at 5:15 p.m. were told the 65-year-old had gotten out of her car to examine the damage to the pickup truck and say she was sorry. The female in truck reportedly got out, confronted her, assaulted her and then drove off, according to the Centralia Police Department. The 65-year-old was transported to the hospital for possible injuries, according to police. The dark-colored Ford 350 pickup had Oregon license plates, police said.

AT HOME RAGE

• A 26-year-old rural Chehalis man who allegedly threatened to shoot a family member yesterday was arrested for felony harassment. A deputy was called about 1:50 p.m. to the 2000 block of Rice Road and booked Maxx Weston into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutors declined to file the felony charge and the case will be handled instead in Lewis County District Court.

PORCH THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 7:20 p.m. yesterday to the 2300 block of Eureka Avenue where someone had stolen a package from a front porch which had been delivered by the carrier. The individual was able to take the item without being caught on video, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A deputy contacted a pedestrian with a warrant about 4:50 p.m. yesterday walking on the 70 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue and found he had a glass pipe with suspected meth, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Terry R. Strong, 48, a homeless person, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

SURLY AND DRUNK

• A deputy responded about 10 p.m. yesterday to a convenience store and gas station on the 700 block of Leonard Road where an extremely intoxicated and agitated 24-year-old allegedly broke the glass door, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Charles E. Evans III, of Onalaska, was subsequently located and arrested for second-degree malicious mischief and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. The damage is estimated at $1,000.

CHILD PORN ARREST

• A 26-year-old man was arrested after a search warrant was served about 7:30 a.m. yesterday at the 100 block of Paradise Lane in Toledo following the November receipt of information from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force that suggested he had 147 suspect videos, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chriss Grammount, a Toledo resident, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of depictions of minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct as well as dealing in depictions of minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the sheriff’s office. Grammount was charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with four counts of the first offense. Charging documents allege he used his phone to download videos from Kik and transfer them to a publicly available Dropbox account in which his user name and associated email address were his own first and last names. His bail was set at $5,000 when he was brought before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. He works at Wal-Mart and the judge ordered him not be around children but said he would be allowed to go to work.

CHILD MOLESTATION ARREST

• A 55-year-old man was arrested yesterday and charged today with first-degree child molestation after a 9-year-old girl said he made her put her hand down his pants and touch him. The case was reported to the Chehalis Police Department in November when the girl’s mother noticed her child freaked out when she learned Eddie J. Martin was going to be coming to their home, according to charging documents. The girl’s step-sister told the mom what had occurred and the mom thought it must have been about two years ago because she had not seen Martin for a long time, charge papers relate. A forensic interview was conducted last week and the child repeated the story, saying he made her move her hand up and down, according to the allegations. Martin, who has a Winlock address according to court records, went before a Lewis County Superior Court judge this afternoon and his bail was set at $50,000.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A driver was injured and her 3-year-old passenger apparently unhurt when a car crashed into two trees off state Route 508 yesterday and was totaled. The driver, Joella M. Leal, 39, from Mossyrock, was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and the transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to the Washington State Patrol. Trooper called at 1 p.m. to the scene near Cinebar found the Dodge Neon had been traveling eastbound when it left the roadway, vaulted across Johnson Road and hit the trees, according to the state patrol. The wreck is under investigation.

• A deputy pulled over a vehicle which almost hit his patrol car on Interstate 5 near milepost 74 south of Chehalis about 5:50 p.m. yesterday and the driver reportedly said she was falling asleep while driving, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Desiree M. Stockert, 49, from Lacey, was found to be driving with a suspended license and a search that followed turned up suspected methamphetamine in her jacket pocket, according to the sheriff’s office. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of meth, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, trespassing, harassment, third-degree theft, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, runaway returned to parents, collision on city street … and more among 152 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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