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WHEEL CHAIR ASSAULT
• A nursing home resident who allegedly used his wheel chair to pin an employee between a wall and a desk, grabbed her wrist and threatened to sexually assault her was arrested yesterday morning by Centralia police. Officers called to Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on the 1300 block of Alexander Street about 10:20 a.m. were told 51-year-old Robert C. Neal had said he was going to kill each staff member one by one and began to name them, according to court documents. While there, an officer spoke to one of them who recounted events from the previous day after she had wheeled Neal back indoors. She said they paused while Neal spoke with a nurse and when she stretched and yawned, he asked what she was doing; when she explained, he allegedly told her he would teach her some respect and began wheeling towards her, charging documents relate. Neal was booked into the Lewis County Jail and then charged yesterday afternoon with third-degree assault with sexual motivation. Defense attorney Rachael Tiller noted Neal had no felony history and wanted to very much to return to the nursing home, but his bail was set at $50,000.
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY
• Chehalis police were called to the 500 block of Northwest Ohio Avenue about 3:40 p.m. yesterday where an individual reported items missing from a residence.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called just after 10 p.m. yesterday by an individual who reported her purple 1997 Honda Accord was stolen from a parking lot at the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue earlier in the evening. It has a license plate reading AEB 2624, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Articles of clothing and a set of keys were stolen in a vehicle prowl at the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 4:20 p.m. yesterday.
• Chehalis police were called just after 4 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl that occurred at the 400 block of Northeast Adams Avenue while the victim was at the residence.
• Centralia police were called about 11:35 a.m. yesterday regarding a drone and a screw gun stolen from a vehicle at the 1200 block of Bayne Street.
FUNNY MONEY
• Centralia police were called to a restaurant at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue about 3:35 p.m. yesterday to take a report a counterfeit $20 bill was passed there.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 16-year-old boy was cited for hit and run and driving without a license after he allegedly crashed his vehicle through a chain-link fence at the 2000 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia and fled the scene, at about 7:40 a.m. today.
• A 20-year-old Centralia woman was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital to be evaluated after a single-vehicle collision on the 400 block of Lincoln Creek Road yesterday morning. Deputies called about 8:50 a.m. found the 2018 Toyota Camry had been traveling eastbound when its tires went off the side of the road causing the car to roll at least twice, and come to rest on its top, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said the driver appeared to have no major injuries.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving with suspended license, third-degree domestic malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, vehicle collision, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation … and more among 162 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