Updated at 3:58 p.m.
UTENSIL ATTACK
• A 51-year-old woman was arrested last night after her ex-husband said while she was staying with him a camper, she was intoxicated and began to fight with him, allegedly including stabbing him in the abdomen with a fork. A deputy called just before 11 p.m. to the 400 block of Bunker Creek Road found the victim with minor scrapes and bruises as well as a puncture mark on his stomach, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Maryann E. Cook, of Buena Park, California, was arrested for third-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
KIDS IN TROUBLE
• A juvenile female was arrested last night for allegedly making death threats in a case associated with the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday morning to Green Hill School to take reports of two incidents in recent days, one in which a 16-year-old resident allegedly took a grape from his mouth and threw it at an employee on Sunday and another on Thursday in which a 16-year-old reportedly spit on a staff member. Both cases are being referred to prosecutors for charges of custodial assault, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police are investigating an incident at W.F. West High School reported yesterday morning in which someone poured “gasket maker” into the crankcase of a motorcycle in the shop class. The motorbike is valued at $1,100, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Centralia police were called to the 1200 block of Alder Street at 7:30 p.m. yesterday to take a report of tools stolen from a vehicle.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Chehalis firefighters responded to a pair of motor vehicle accidents just before 10 a.m. yesterday on southbound Interstate 5 near milepost 77, the first one a rear end collision in which a pregnant woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation. A few hundred yards to the north, an also pregnant driver hydroplaned and hit the median head on, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Fire Capt. Derrick Paul indicated she was transported with injuries to Providence Centralia Hospital. One lane was shut down for 35 minutes, according to Paul.
• The driver of a pickup truck was uninjured when she lost control on the slippery roadway and rolled over an embankment at the onramp to Interstate 5 at Chamber of Commerce Way in Chehalis just after 1 p.m. yesterday, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.
• Nobody was injured when the driver of a mini van said he accidentally hit his accelerator and ran into the front of a grocery store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia this morning. Riverside Fire Authority shared photos showing a broken window and bottles laying on the floor in front of a shelf inside. It happened just before 10:40 a.m., according to Riverside Fire Authority. “Repair is already being performed on store and the business remains open at this time,” Fire Capt. Jesse Berry wrote.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, trespassing, misdemeanor assault, probation violation, third-degree malicious mischief, interfering with domestic violence reporting; responses for alarm, dispute, harassment, hit and run, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, fourth-degree assault, a dozen individuals in a field petting someone else’s horses … 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.
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Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
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