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Updated at 3:16 p.m.
BREAK-IN TOLEDO
• A deputy was called for a residential burglary on Saturday at the 100 block of Templeton Road outside of Toledo in which a safe, three cell phones and two security cameras were stolen. The break-in occurred between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. that day, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The safe was found down the road on Sunday morning, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
BREAK-IN WINLOCK
• Someone got into a Winlock woman’s barn at the 600 block of Meier Road and stole a Chicago meat saw valued at $350 sometime in the weeks previous to Sunday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
MESSING WITH THE MAIL
• A deputy was called on Sunday to the 200 block of Blakeley Lane in Toledo where a woman reported two $400 rent checks had been stolen from her mailbox sometime during the previous two weeks, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 6:40 a.m. today to take a report of a black 2000 Honda Civic stolen from the 200 block of South Tower Avenue. The car has a license plate reading BAE 8186, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• An officer was called to the 300 block of Southwest 16th Street in Chehalis just before 2 p.m. on Sunday following the discovery of a vehicle prowl that occurred sometime since Friday. The driver’s side back window was broken out, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A window was broken on a friend’s vehicle parked there as well, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called just after 3 p.m. on Saturday to the Lewis County Mall where a woman found someone had broken out her passenger side window. Nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 2:30 p.m. on Friday to the 1000 block of South Market Boulevard to take a report of a stolen rear license plate from a vehicle.
WALLET LIFTED
• Chehalis police were called on Friday afternoon by a woman who had left her purse in a cart at the 2100 block of North National Avenue the Monday before and while someone turned it in to the store, her checkbook-style wallet was missing from inside.
MACGYVER MOVE
• A deputy was called to the Lewis County Jail on Saturday following the discovery an inmate allegedly took apart a mop bucket, removed a metal rod and attempted to sharpen it. Jeremy L. Boggess, 45, of Centralia, reportedly said he wasn’t going to hurt anyone with it but planned to use it to destroy a camera, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Boggess was re-booked for possession of weapon by a prisoner, according to the sheriff’s office.
DRUGS
• A 45-year-old man picked up on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant was also arrested for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver following a search incident to his arrest on Friday evening at the 500 block of South Oak Street in Centralia. Harold J. Bland, from Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School about 1:45 p.m. on Friday where a 16-year-old student-inmate had allegedly been found with suspicious green vegetable material.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Chehalis police were called just after 8:30 a.m. on Saturday after a vehicle slid on some ice in the parking lot at the 600 block of West Main Street and hit the building. The damage was minimal, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Two Olympia men were injured when their car crossed the centerline on U.S. Highway 12 about 15 miles east of Packwood just before 9:20 yesterday morning and collided with a fifth-wheel trailer being towed by a pickup truck. The 1997 Audi was totaled as was the fifth-wheel, according to the Washington State Patrol. The driver, Haroun W. Bryant, 27, and his passenger Jordan A. Frost, 25, declined to be taken to the hospital, according to the state patrol. They had been wearing their seat belts and headed westbound, the investigating trooper reports. The 55-year-old driver of the pickup truck, from Puyallup, was reportedly unhurt.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, assault, driving with suspended license, driving without a license, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, unfounded report, suspicious circumstances, a hypothermic male laying on the road asking passerby for a ride … and more among 116 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