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UNLAWFUL GUN PLAY
• A deputy responding to a report of a vehicle blocking traffic and a man in the middle of the road firing a rifle towards the woods contacted the individual and found he had a prior conviction that prohibited him from possessing guns. It happened about 7 p.m. yesterday at the 1400 block of Middle Fork Road near Onalaska, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The weapon and several spent rounds were collected for evidence and Anthony C. Burchfield, 41, was arrested, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Police were called about 11:15 a.m. yesterday to take a report that shoes and clothing were taken from a car at the 200 block of North King Street in Centralia on Sunday evening.
VANDALISM
• Two windows of a house had rocks thrown through them at the 400 block of Prairie Rose Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 6 p.m. yesterday. The house was also egged, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called about 11:25 a.m. yesterday to take a report that three mailboxes were pried open sometime during the previous two days at the 100 block of South Silver Street.
• Chehalis police were called just before 11 a.m. yesterday regarding vandalism to a 2017 Jeep at the 1800 block of Bishop Road. There was a hole in its hood, about an inch in size that looked like a tear, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 12:15 p.m. yesterday to take a report of someone “keying” a foul word onto a vehicle.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Firefighters were called about 8:15 a.m. today to a rollover crash on Jackson Highway just north of North Prairie Road, Nobody was transported, according to Lewis County Fire District 5.
• Two vehicles were totaled and one driver hospitalized after the motorist didn’t see the SUV in front of her had stopped for road construction on southbound state Route 7 about 11 miles north of Morton this morning. Troopers called to the scene just after 8 a.m. found the Dodge Dakota pickup struck the rear of a 2017 Audi Q7 sport utility vehicle, according to the Washington State Patrol. Sandra L. Gidley, 39, from Spanaway, was injured and taken to Morton General Hospital, according to the state patrol. James M. Bieker, 41, of Eatonville, was injured but not transported, the investigating trooper indicates. Gidley was to be cited for second-degree negligent driving.
• Chehalis police were called about 1:20 p.m. yesterday when a tow truck and passenger car collided at West Main Street and Cascade Avenue.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, trespassing, resisting arrest, fourth-degree assault, protection order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, harassment, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances … and more among 149 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter