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LAW ENFORCEMENT PURSUES CAR PROWL SUSPECT
• Deputies investigating a car prowl from the 100 block of Forest Service Road 25 yesterday afternoon went to the gas station in Morton where the victim said her credit cards were being used and ran into their suspect, briefly. The suspect pulled up to the gas pumps at Gas Plus, but when an officer tried to contact him, he got back in his vehicle and took off, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A chase ensued west on U.S. Highway 12, spike strips were deployed but the motorist parked on the south side of the Mayfield Lake bridge and fled on foot, according to the sheriff’s office. A K-9 track was unsuccessful, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. The vehicle turned out to have been stolen in Pierce County, Breen said. The suspect was described as a balding white male wearing a blue shirt, shorts and white knee-high socks.
TOOLS TAKEN
• A radial arm saw and multiple saw horses were reported stolen in a burglary at the 600 block of J Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 10 a.m. yesterday.
EGGS APPROPRIATED
• An 80-year-old resident from the 600 block of Boistfort Road contacted the sheriff’s office yesterday morning to report that an estimated 15 dozen farm eggs had been stolen from her home since mid-April. Also missing is a Ryobi drill and charger, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
AUTO THEFT
• A gold 1993 Acura Legend was reported stolen from in front of a residence at the 500 block of State Street in Centralia about 7:40 a.m. yesterday. The four-door car has a license plate reading BFD 5216, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FUEL STOLEN
• Chehalis police were called at 1:30 p.m. yesterday to investigate the theft of gasoline from two vans during the night on Northeast Kresky Avenue.
SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA
• Centralia police were called about 12:45 a.m. today to take a report that unwanted communication of a sexual nature had occurred over Facebook in an incident associated with a location on the 400 block of South Silver Street.
• Police were called about 5:15 p.m. yesterday by an individual at the 2500 block of Kristine Court in Centralia who reported receiving pornographic images of two teenage looking boys through Facebook from an unknown person. This case is being referred to the Washington State Missing and Exploited Children Task Force, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• Two Chehalis residents were arrested yesterday morning in Centralia for possession of heroin after contact with an officer at the 1100 block of Alder Street. Sarah A. Gee, 28, and Benjamin T. Stenberg, 24, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, , according to the Centralia Police Department. Prosecutors declined to file a charge on Stenberg today.
LOST AND FOUND
• Chehalis police were notified about noon yesterday that a wedding ring set had been found in a parking lot on Northwest Chehalis Avenue.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT BURNS
• The fork truck was heavily damaged when it caught fire inside a shipping shed at a Centralia area business yesterday, but a sprinkler system activated, keeping the fire in check until firefighters arrived and extinguished it, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The cause of the approximately 2:50 p.m. yesterday fire at the 2000 block of Industrial Drive in under investigation. Nobody was hurt.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 40-year-old motorist was arrested after he allegedly backed his vehicle into a city of Centralia community services vehicle at Summa and South Pearl streets in Centralia just abut 5:10 p.m. yesterday. David C. Rahnert, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 21-year-old Toledo resident sustained lacerations and possibly an ankle injury in a rollover wreck at Jackson Highway and state Route 505 last night, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responding about 10:30 p.m. noted the Ford F250 pickup was totaled and arrested Jonathan M. Hinkley for driving under the influence, according to the sheriff’s office. Hinkley was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, hit and run, misdemeanor assault, reckless endangerment, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, protection order violation; responses for alarm, fraud, civil issue, hit and run, trespassing, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, vehicle collision … and more among 197 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