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DRUGS
• Centralia police were contacted about 11:30 a.m. yesterday by an individual who reported that his money was stolen by a drug dealer. The 60-year-old man said that he paid for Oxycontin pills between Thanksgiving and Christmas but never received them, according to the Centralia Police Department. With little information and the time delay, there isn’t enough to follow up on, according to police.
• A 32-year-old Napavine woman who allegedly drove through a stop sign, jumped a curb and stopped at a pole then walked away yesterday morning was subsequently contacted by police and arrested. An officer called about 9:30 a.m. to West Main Street at Quincy Place in Chehalis found drug paraphernalia that tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Miranda J. Coppinger was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
HARASSMENT
• A 28-year-old Packwood resident was arrested for felony harassment yesterday after a deputy was called about 3:40 p.m. to the 12000 block of U.S. Highway 12 and told he had broken a window in his girlfriend’s vehicle and threatened to kill her. James M. Seaman was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
CUSTODIAL ASSAULT
• Chehalis police were called about 12:35 p.m. yesterday to Green Hill School to take a report that a 16-year-old student-inmate allegedly inappropriately touched a female staff member.
THEFT, THEFT, THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 4:20 p.m. yesterday by an individual who said they accidentally left a bank bag sitting on a chair inside a bank on the 600 block of South Market Boulevard and when they returned, the bag was still there but had been emptied of its contents.
• Centralia police were called about 10:50 a.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of West Main Street where cash was stolen from the business while the employee was not attending the sale counter.
• A business at the 1100 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia reported about 12:50 p.m. yesterday that an individual tried to pawn a tool that had been stolen from the business.
• Centralia police were called just after 5 p.m. yesterday to take a report medication was stolen in a vehicle prowl at the 2800 block of Russell Road.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called just before noon yesterday to take a report of graffiti spray painted onto the sides of a building at the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarm, civil issue, hit and run, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 146 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