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NEIGHBOR FOILS BURGLARY WINLOCK
• Deputies were called about 8 a.m. yesterday to the 100 block of Awmiller Road in Winlock right after a 911 caller caught three people in a silver 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser with an Oregon license plate in the midst of burglarizing a neighbor’s residence. When confronted, the two males and one female apologized and removed items from their vehicle back into the house, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Responding deputies were unable to locate the suspect vehicle but did find forced entry to the garage and back door of the home, according to the sheriff’s office.
BURGLARY CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were called about 2:30 p.m. yesterday to a home on Southwest Sixth Street where an unknown person had entered a residence and rifled through their belongings. Nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
THREAT
• A 72-year-old man was arrested late yesterday afternoon after deputies were called to Linda Vista Drive outside Chehalis because he had allegedly told his wife they were both going to be dead, as he was going to shoot her then himself, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Jerry A. Hill was booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment, according to the sheriff’s office.
ASSAULT
• Halis C. Hankins, 22, of Chehalis, was arrested for hit and run and third-degree assault in a case last night associated with the 800 block of South Gold Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BAD BILL
• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue where a counterfeit bill had been received the evening before.
• Chehalis police were called about 4:40 p.m. yesterday to a business on Southwest Interstate Avenue where an individual tried to spend a counterfeit $5 bill, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Gang graffiti was discovered spray painted on the side of the viaduct at the 100 block of East Sixth Street in Centralia yesterday morning, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BRUSH FIRE BREAKS OUT
• Four fire departments responded to a fire about 6:30 p.m. yesterday at the 100 block of McLaughlin Road near a former mill site found vegetation burning in a dry creek bed covering approximately 25 feet by 30 feet. Crews had the fire under control and knocked down within 15 minutes, according to Lewis County Fire District 6.
LUCKY DAY
• Firefighters were called this afternoon to the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road for a man pinned in a toppled over commercial forklift. Just as the rescue truck arrived, neighbors managed to dig the dirt out from beneath the operator’s ankle and got him free, according to Lewis County Fire District 8. Chief Duran McDaniel said the ankle had only been stuck, and wasn’t broken.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, reckless driving, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, suspicious circumstances, vehicle collision … and more among 129 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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At the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 8
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