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BAD CUSTOMERS
• Police were called about 12:20 p.m. yesterday to the hotel at the 700 block of Northwest Liberty Place where guests from one room took the television, coffee maker and a clothes iron but left behind a “glass smoking device,” according to the Chehalis Police Department. Officers are investigating.
MISSING GREENERY
• Centralia police were called about 9:25 a.m. yesterday to take a report that potted plants had been stolen from in front of a building at the 200 block of South Tower Avenue.
FOUND GREENERY
• Chehalis police were called to the school on the 300 block of Southwest 16th Street about 1 p.m. yesterday after personnel found a marijuana cigarette in a 15-year-old boy’s backpack. The case is being forwarded to prosecutors for charging, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report about 11:25 a.m. yesterday of graffiti painted on a fence at the 500 block of West Pine Street. An officer returned after another call at 8:45 p.m. about multiple fences in the same area getting hit with graffiti, according to the Centralia Police Department.
SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
• A Puyallup resident pleaded not guilty yesterday following allegations of sexual abuse spanning a decade of a female relative who is eight years younger than him, taking place in part in Lewis County. David A. Carosa, now 25, appeared with his lawyer before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court following an investigation by the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office that began in October, about two weeks after the most recent alleged incident. He is charged with first-degree incest as well as rape of a child in the first, second and third degree. Judge James Lawler quashed the $100,000 arrest warrant and allowed his release on a $20,000 unsecured bond. His trial was set for the week of Feb. 27.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, reckless driving, failure to register motor vehicle after sale, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, animal cruelty, suspicious circumstances, collision off city street … and more among 137 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.