ASSAULT
• Jesse T. Anderson, 37 of Centralia, was arrested for second-degree assault after allegedly hitting and choking his girlfriend during a dispute at the 1000 block of Alder Street in Centralia yesterday. Centralia police, contacted about 11:30 a.m., booked Anderson into the Lewis County Jail. Prosecutors declined to file the felony charge.
• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School yesterday morning to take a report of an incident that occurred last month in which an 18-year-old student-inmate allegedly grabbed the arm of a staff member, while refusing to go into his room, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The case is being investigated as custodial assault, according to police.
BREAK-IN TOLEDO
• A deputy was called yesterday to the 5100 block of Jackson Highway to take a report that someone had broken into the Cowlitz Prairie Grange sometime during the previous two weeks. It appeared they had climbed in through a window and while inside, damaged a door frame and window. Nothing was taken, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
• A 23-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday for allegedly tampering with railroad equipment at the 600 block of North Railroad Avenue in Centralia. Pablo Enriquez-Martinez was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called at 6 p.m. yesterday to take a report of of the theft of license plates from a vehicle at Harrison and Belmont avenues.
• Chehalis police were called to a parking lot at the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue where sometime between 6 a.m. and 3:56 p.m., yesterday someone removed a curved 50-inch LED light bar from a truck. It was described as a Cree 228W, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Centralia police were called to the 600 block of F Street about 8:40 a.m. yesterday to take a report that jewelry had been stolen from a dresser after a guest stayed overnight in November.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, probation violation, misdemeanor theft; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, shoplifting, trespassing, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances … and more among 147 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