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BURGLARY CHEHALIS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports a 2005 Honda Foreman 500 ATV plus a Stihl brush cutter were stolen from a shop behind a residence on the 100 block of Pattee Road near Chehalis sometime between 4 p.m. last Thursday and 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The loss is estimated at $3,000.
FRAUD
• Police arrested a 19-year-old Centralia resident for forgery yesterday morning after he tried to cash a check written out to himself for $320 at Umpqua Bank on the 200 block of North Pearl Street and it turned out the check’s owner had recently cleaned out his vehicle at a car wash and thrown away temporary checks because he thought they were no longer any good. Officers called to the bank about 10:30 a.m. were told by Michael W. Severance that two individuals waiting around the corner in a car had told him to cash it, according to charging documents. Severance was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 1 p.m. yesterday to the parking lot at Wal-Mart on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue where an individual reported two tool boxes had been stolen from the back of his truck. The 26-inch Milwaukee brand red and black boxes contained carpentry and power tools, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Centralia police were called about 11:30 a.m. yesterday about the theft of tools from an unlocked vehicle at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A glass smoking device with white residue was found in the rear of an officer’s patrol vehicle after a suspect was taken out at the jail, leading to the arrest of the suspect for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department. Bibiana Martinez-Torres, 30, of Olympia was being transported to the Lewis County Jail for resisting arrest and third-degree suspended license following contact with an officer about 12:40 a.m. today at the the 1500 block of North Scheuber Road, according to police.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report about 8:40 a.m. yesterday of graffiti placed during the night on a building at the 1500 block of Kresky Avenue.
INVESTIGATION
• Centralia police report they began investigating yesterday morning a report of inappropriate touching involving juveniles.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation, minor in possession/consumption of alcohol; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, vehicle collision … and more among 166 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