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FREEWAY CHASE
• A 14-year-old boy was arrested early this morning for felony eluding when he failed to pull over for a deputy beginning around milepost 60 on southbound Interstate 5. It had appeared the driver of the Ford F150 pickup was possibly intoxicated, at one point nearly sideswiping a semi truck, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The approximately 3:20 a.m. pursuit was terminated but the deputy followed the truck at normal speeds until it stopped, high centered on a log near Burma Road in Toutle, according got the sheriff’s office. The Olympia teen acknowledged taking his father’s truck and said he was running away from home, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. He was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center.
MAN GIVES UP AR-15
• Chehalis police were called to pickup a firearm after a man who seemed distraught brought an AR-15 to the Lewis County Veterans Museum, saying he wanted them to have it but wouldn’t leave his name or any information for them yesterday afternoon. The man who was around 70 years said he was a military veteran and suggested he was being persecuted by the government for having the gun, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Department spokesperson Linda Bailey said police are trying to track down the owner, and isn’t sure what will happen with the weapon because firearms laws likely prevent it from being treated as an ordinary lost or found item.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license, protection order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft … and more among 122 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
Most people I know who own that type of weapon have a screw loose and believe the government is out to take away their freedom, and boy do they love Jesus.