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VEHICLE THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 4:45 a.m. today about the theft of a vehicle from the 1000 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue.
• A blue 2005 Harley Davidson Road King was stolen around 8:45 p.m. yesterday from in front of a business at the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. The motorcycle has a license plate reading 1E9132, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called to a repair shop on the 600 block of Northwest State Avenue about 8:50 a.m. yesterday following the discovery that a TC Mopper excavator had been stolen. The business thought the owner had picked it up about a month earlier, but the owner said he did not, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
SERIAL SHOPLIFTING
• Centralia police say they caught a 25-year-old homeless man last night who allegedly stole merchandise from a store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue on six different occasions over the previous two days. Samuel T. McQuigg was arrested for a half dozen instances of third-degree theft and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OTHER THEFT
• Chehalis police were called to a bank on the 1400 block of South Market Boulevard just before 1 p.m. yesterday about a possible first-degree theft involving a non-sufficient funds check.
• Centralia police were called about 11:40 a.m. yesterday to a store on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue to take a report that an unidentified female suspect stole approximately $150 from the business by convincing an employee she was to receive a refund, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police took a report from the 500 block of Hillkress Avenue in Centralia about 9:10 a.m. yesterday regarding credit card fraud by unknown suspects.
INTERFERING WITH HEALTHCARE FACILITY
• A 37-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for third-degree malicious mischief, resisting arrest and interfering with a healthcare facility after police were called about 6:20 p.m. yesterday to the 800 block of Vienna Street. John R. Gladue III was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called just before 7:30 a.m. today for an overnight vehicle prowl at the 400 block of Northeast Adams Avenue.
• A chainsaw was stolen in a vehicle prowl at the 800 block of Marion Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 3 p.m. yesterday.
DRUGS
• A 40-year-old woman was arrested yesterday afternoon after a deputy made a traffic stop at Jackson Highway and state Route 508, learned she had outstanding warrants and a search turned up a glass pipe with a small amount of a substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine, according to court documents. Amy J. Threlfall, whose court file shows a Longview address, was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• Daniel D. Vancil, 22, of Centralia was arrested for possession of heroin after contact with police about 12:20 p.m. yesterday at the 100 block of East High Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• A 17-year-old boy was arrested yesterday after deputies called about 11 a.m. regarding suspicious circumstances on Davis Lake Road in Morton detained him and found him to be in possession of a substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the sheriff’s office.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police called at 9:45 a.m. yesterday about the window of a van shattered possibly by a BB gun at the 10 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue subsequently contacted a child who who admitted shooting at the window, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An officer spoke to the victim as well as the boy and his family, who all agreed to work it out between themselves, according to police.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, protection order violation, no contact order violation, driving under the influence, fourth-degree domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, third-degree theft, harassment, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, telephone harassment … 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