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FELONY SHOPLIFTING
• A 36-year-old Centralia man who allegedly stole items from a retail store and assaulted store personnel after they attempted to detain him was arrested for second-degree robbery yesterday. Police called at 3:20 p.m. to the 1600 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia booked William J. Coe, into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
IDENTITY THEFT
• Curtis D. McDougall, 46, of Centralia, was arrested yesterday following an investigation into a Feb. 1 traffic stop in the Centralia area which he allegedly used his brother’s name instead of his own. He was arrested for second-degree identity theft and a case for making a false statement of an officer was referred to prosecutors, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. McDougall was contacted at the Lewis County Jail where he is being held on another matter, according to the sheriff’s office.
OTHER THEFT
• Centralia police were called at 11 a.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of Windsor Avenue where they were told someone stole a flower rack from an individual’s front porch.
• Police took a report from the 600 block of West Main Street in Chehalis about 4:45 p.m. yesterday of a vehicle prowl. Missing from a wallet were various cards, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The driver’s side ing window had been broken and the trunk lock damaged, according to police.
DRUGS
• A 25-year-old Onalaska resident detained by an off-duty officer for allegedly trying to shoplift a jacket at the 400 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis yesterday was found to have an outstanding warrant and also suspected heroin, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Logan P. Buholm was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• A juvenile was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center on a warrant and for possession of methamphetamine after a search incident to his arrest revealed the suspected drug in an approximately 11:30 a.m. yesterday case associated with the 700 block of Harrison Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called at 1:45 p.m. yesterday to take a report of a headstone being vandalized at a cemetery on the 500 block of North Ash Street.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, vehicle collision, disorderly person, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances; complaint of person urinating in someone else’s yard captured on video tape … and more among 143 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