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PURSE SNATCHING
• A Thurston County Sheriffs K9 unit was called in to help after a 22-year-old Centralia woman reported a white male in his 20s stole her purse off her shoulder and fled yesterday afternoon in Centralia. Officers called about 4:15 p.m. to the parking lot in the 500 block of Harrison Avenue learned a witness – a Centralia man – chased after the suspect and was able to recover the purse, according to the Centralia Police Department. The K-9 track was unsuccessful, according to police. The case is under investigation.
AUTO THEFT
• A vehicle that had been reported stolen to the Chehalis Tribal Police was recovered abandoned in a parking lot at the 2500 block of Seward Avenue in Centralia about 7:30 a.m. yesterday.
FRAUD
• Centralia police were called about 5:35 p.m. yesterday from an individual who reported receiving a call from his bank regarding a male attempting to cash a check on the victim’s account, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim responded to the bank and was able to verify that the check was unauthorized, according to police. The case is under investigation.
OTHER THEFT
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a deputy learned that a Honda E100 generator vanished from the 200 block of Stubb Road in Onalaska on Sept. 20, between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Deputies called about 12:35 p.m. yesterday for a rollover accident along the 500 block of Tauscher Road found a totaled 2016 Kia Soul in a field off the east side of the road and a driver who smelled “overwhelmingly” of intoxicants, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The driver, Ruby M. Sprayberry, 26, of Chehalis, was reportedly uninjured and was arrested for driving under the influence and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, protection order violation, misdemeanor domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor theft, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … 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