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Updated at 2:58 p.m.
JACKPOT CAR PROWL
• A deputy was called for a car prowl about 8:50 a.m. yesterday just southeast of the city of Chehalis in which one of the items stolen was a backpack containing approximately $52,800 worth of bonds from a bail bond agency. The driver’s side window of the 40-year-old victim’s Toyota Corolla had been broken out, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened at the 100 block of Roberts Drive, according to the sheriff’s office. The case is being investigated as a first-degree theft. Chief Deputy Dusty Breen asks anyone with information to please contact the sheriff’s office or Crime Stoppers of South Sound.
BREAK-IN MINERAL
• A deputy responded to a residential burglary yesterday at the 3400 block of state Route 7 in Mineral and found someone had entered through the back door and made off with televisions, clothing and other personal items. It happened sometime since Sept 3, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at about $2,000, according to the sheriff’s office.
OTHER THEFT
• Chehalis police were called just before noon yesterday to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue to investigate the use of fraudulent checks. The case is ongoing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 7:25 a.m. yesterday to the 2100 block of North National Avenue to take a report of the theft of a Penske tow dolly. The loss is $3,500, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called just before 5 p.m. yesterday to take a report of spray painted tagging of a building at the 400 block of Southwest 15th Street.
LIFE SAVED ON RAILROAD TRACKS
• Centralia police say a bystander pushed a man out of the path of an approaching train yesterday at the 200 block of East Main Street in Centralia. The potential victim, described by police as a male transient, had a cart of his belongings which got stuck on the railroad tracks and didn’t see the train coming just before 11:20 a.m., according to the Centralia Police Department. He was not injured, according to police. It was two summers ago when Victor J. Bonagofski, 72, lost his life when he fell off his bicycle on the tracks at the nearby Locust Street crossing and was hit by a freight train.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
• Lewis County Fire District 5’s Lt. Laura Hanson reminds the driving public that when the expected rains arrive on Sunday, people will need to be super careful about the oil on the surface of the roadways. “It will be super slick,” Hanson said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor theft, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, shoplifting, hit and run, trespassing, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, to put a neighbor dog back in its yard so a woman could safely exit her car … and more among 176 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
Yeah “Didn’t see it comin'” is a euphemism for “we don’t want to advertise the fact that our town is so depressing people are killing themselves via trains downtown.”
Nobody likes depressing news, but deaths have to be reported, so claiming ignorance is a gentle way of whitewashing the negative to keep the flouridated population calm and happy.
Isn’t it secretary hanson? Thanks for the safety reminder. Don’t forget to keep your eyes open while driving as well, that may result in something “super bad”.
Didn’t see the train……couldn’t HEAR it??????