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BRASS KNUCKLES AT SCHOOL
• Police were called about 9:45 a.m. yesterday to the 800 block of Eshom Road in Centralia where a 15-year-old boy allegedly brought a pair of brass knuckles to school. The case is being referred to prosecutors for criminal charging, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ELECTRICITY MISSING
• Centralia police are investigating a report from about 7:10 a.m. yesterday of theft from public utilities at a vacant house on the 900 block of West Walnut Street where someone used a “jumper” to restore power.
FUEL MISSING
• An individual reported the theft of fuel from the 1300 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia about 4 p.m. yesterday.
FANCY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS MISSING
• A Star Shower Motion Laser Light Projector was reported stolen from a front yard at the 800 block of G Street yesterday.
LOST AND FOUND
• An individual called police at 1:30 p.m. yesterday to report a vehicle stolen at the 2100 block of North National Avenue but then called back to say it was located in the parking lot.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called about 2:45 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of North Pearl Street where someone had damaged Christmas lights in a front yard.
• Centralia police were called about 2:25 p.m. yesterday when an individual reported that unknown person(s) threw a soda can through a window at the 300 block of Yew Street breaking the glass.
UPDATE: ILLEGAL MARIJUANA GROWING BY CHINESE NATIONALS
• The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office reports the operation led by the Grays Harbor County Drug Task Force yesterday after an investigation into illegal marijuana growing, primarily in areas of their county, involved 50 search warrants and resulted in 44 arrests and the seizure of 26 vehicles, multiple guns and more than $400,000 worth of cash and gold. A total of 32,449 marijuana plants were confiscated which they estimate had a value in excess of $80 million. Four of the searches were made in Thurston County, in the Lacey and Olympia areas; eight searches were conducted in King County, in Kent and Bellevue, according to Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate. Other search warrants were served at various locations in and around Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Ocean Shores, Cosmopolis, Montesano, Elma and McCleary.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, hit and run, resisting arrest, probation violation, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, fourth-degree domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, shoplifting, hit and run, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, telephone harassment … and more among 143 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m.
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Seized marijuana plants was taken from a Central Park grow prior to being taken away for destruction. / Courtesy photo by Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter