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• A 32-year-old Centralia man was arrested early this morning after allegedly entering someone else’s home at the 200 block of West Magnolia Street in Centralia and frightening the occupants. Officers responding to a 3:30 a.m. call booked Sparticas Arrington IV into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree trespassing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 29-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act when police contacted her yesterday at the 200 block of Southwest 14th Street in Chehalis after a 12:40 p.m. call about a person staying in a camper parked at a condemned house. Megan M. Murphy was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 22-year-old Toledo resident who allegedly gave police someone else’s name as his own to avoid arrest on an outstanding warrant was arrested just after noon yesterday for identity theft, possession of meth and possession of heroin. Centralia police contacted Tavryn L. Lindsey at the 800 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Lindsey also swallowed a small plastic baggie he later said contained cocaine, according to the Centralia Police Department. Lindsey was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. Centralia police indicate they plan to forward information to prosecutors for a potential additional charge of tampering with evidence,.
• Centralia police say a motorist tossed drugs out the window of his vehicle as he was being pulled over early yesterday morning at the 1500 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia. It happened just before 7 a.m. David C. Rahnert, 40, a homeless person, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 51-year-old Rochester man contacted because he was riding a bicycle in an area where a car prowl had occurred on Wednesday night was frisked and a glass pipe was found in his pocket with a white powder residue that field tested a presumptive positive reading for methamphetamine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Gerald P. Abbott was contacted at a gas station at the 1100 block of state Route 6, arrested for possession of methamphetamine and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors declined to file the charge and he was released yesterday.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning that five small marijuana gardens discovered in the woods off Forest Service Road 25 south of Randle were photographed and then pulled up to be taken into evidence. Forest service employees found them when they were out spraying weeds on Monday near the Woods Creek wildlife area, Chief Deputy Bruce Kimsey said. Seized were 43 adult plants, according to Kimsey.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called about 8:10 p.m. yesterday to the 2600 block of Seward Avenue where someone had damaged vehicle with rocks and eggs.
• Chehalis police were called about 10:50 a.m. yesterday to the 100 block of Southwest Eighth Street to take a report of a fence getting tagged with spray paint.
ANIMAL ENCOUNTER
• An individual was airlifted to an unspecified hospital after getting attacked by a bull at the 700 block of Hamilton Road in Chehalis about 5:30 p.m. yesterday, according to Lewis County Fire District 6.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license, driving with no license, protection order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, shoplifting, disorderly person, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, dog alone in parked vehicle … and more among 221 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