ICE AND DITCHES
• A driver was reportedly uninjured when his fully loaded log truck rolled over yesterday on Lincoln Creek Road near Summers Road outside Centralia. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said the truck drifted and its tires caught in a ditch pulling the 1992 Kenworth onto its side. Firefighters called about 11:15 a.m. said the driver got himself out. The accident took out a a utility pole, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Stacy Brown said 32-year-old Winlock man was cited for defective equipment, expired insurance and expired “tonnage”.
• Two young women were hospitalized yesterday after a single-vehicle wreck on the 300 block of Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia. Firefighters called at 12:15 p.m. said the airbags deployed and the occupants were taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Fire Capt. Ken Colombo said they were told by neighbors it was the third wreck along the bend in the road that morning. The 19-year-old driver and her 21-year-old passenger were transported because of back and neck pain, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A 34-year-old Centralia man escaped serious injury when his Jeep Cherokee left Centralia-Alpha Road and landed on its top in a ditch yesterday afternoon. Aid and deputies were called about 2 p.m. to the crash east of Coal Creek Road. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said he was traveling southbound about 50 mph when “he felt the sheet of ice on a sweeping curve”.
THEFT AND FRAUD
• Centralia police took a report Monday afternoon from the 1200 block of Alder Street in which someone made fraudulent charges on a food stamp card.
• Earlier Monday afternoon, police were called to the 1100 block of Virginia Drive in Centralia about a stolen wallet and somebody then using the victim’s food stamp card.
• And even earlier on Monday, Centralia police took a report about fraudulent activity on a credit card belonging to an individual reporting from the 1200 block of View Street.
DRUGS
• Chehalis police were called to the Rite Aid store on South Market Boulevard yesterday to a report a prescription was altered. A 23-year-old Winlock woman was arrested later when she returned, as she had altered the quantity of pills in her Percocet prescription, according to Chehalis police. Amanda D. Barnhart was booked for into the Lewis County Jail for forgery of a prescription, detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said.
• A 34-year-old Centralia man was found in possession of a small baggie of suspected methamphetamine after he was arrested on Thursday afternoon when he was picked by Chehalis police and a Department of Corrections officer on the 300 block of North Market Boulevard, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Matthew W. Rackley was wanted for a DOC violation, according to police.
STOLEN GUN GETS ALLEGED SHOPLIFTER JAILED
• A 20-year-old Centralia man allegedly trying to shoplift ear ache medicine at Shop n Kart on North National Avenue in Chehalis was jailed Friday night as he was found with a .22 caliber pistol stolen out of Tacoma, according to police. Guillermo Rodriguez was charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with possession of a stolen firearm and third-degree theft. He was ordered held on $20,000 bail.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter