GRANDMOTHER KNOCKED DOWN, INJURED
• A 17-year-old girl was arrested yesterday after she allegedly pushed her grandmother who fell to the ground and broke her shoulder in Packwood. Deputies and aid called about 10:15 a.m. to the 100 block of Smith Road learned the event occurred during a verbal altercation, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The teenager was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for second-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office.
INTRUDER DOES DAMAGE
• Centralia police were called to a business at the 500 block of West Main Street about 9:40 a.m. yesterday following the discovery of a a break-in there. Phone wires inside were cut, but nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
MISSING VALUABLES
• Centralia police were called about 8:30 a.m. yesterday to an apartment on the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue to take a report that jewelry had been stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER THEFT
• An American flag was reported stolen yesterday evening from the 800 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia.
• An officer was called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to take a report of “items” stolen from a vehicle at the 600 block of Richmond Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
LIQUOR VIOLATION
• Chehalis police were called just before 4 p.m. yesterday for a complaint of intoxicated persons at a bus stop at the 500 block of North Market Boulevard and arrested 58-year-old Brian T. Kelley of Chehalis for drinking in public, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
OTHER POLICE CALLS
• An officer was called about 4:30 p.m. yesterday to a report that a female walking a dog was waving a hatchet and smiling, at the 100 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue. The subject was not located, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
OUTBUILDING CATCHES FIRE
• Firefighters were called just after 5 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of Alden Johnson Road in the Ethel area where a wooden storage building on residential property was burning. Most of the contents were ruined, according to Lewis County Fire District 8. “They had a lot of storage, a lot of memorabilia inside,” Fire Chief Duran McDaniel said. “A lot of boxes.” A fire investigator is looking in to the cause. McDaniel said approximately 20 firefighters, including some from neighboring departments, answered the call. They were on scene until about 8 p.m., he said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, third-degree theft, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances … and more among 153 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
Fire trucks racing on Leonsrd rd last evening where were they going