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BURGLARY CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called about 6:45 p.m. yesterday by an individual who reported their garage had been broken into and some items were stolen at the 1100 block of West Main Street. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 3:20 p.m. yesterday regarding a white 2003 Ford F350 stolen from the 1500 block of Lum Road. It was later recovered in Thurston County, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A deputy looking for a stolen 1998 Ford Ranger missing from the 700 block of West Plum Street in Centralia came across the vehicle about 3:45 .m. yesterday on the 2500 block of Salzer Valley Road and contacted the 25-year-old Centralia man behind the wheel who was driving with a suspended license, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Benjamin Stenberg, the son of the vehicle’s owner, was arrested for taking a motor vehicle without permission and then was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.
FAKE NAME
• A deputy responded to the Lewis County Jail this morning to investigate after finger print information was returned and showed a 23-year-old Chehalis man had allegedly provided a fictitious name from Minnesota when booked earlier this month by a trooper for driving with a suspended license. Michael L. Johnson was arrested and re-booked for identity theft and forgery, based on his signature on booking paperwork, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
DRUGS
• A 44-year-old Chehalis woman arrested at the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia about 8 a.m. on Saturday for an outstanding warrant was allegedly found to be in possession of heroin. Genaveve R. Webb was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 24-year-old Mossyrock resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine following contact with a deputy on Friday night at the 2000 block of state Route 505 in Toledo. The deputy was responding to a report of a black pickup truck possibly driving where it should not in the cemetery, stopped the suspect truck and discovered Luke R. Mosteller was driving with a suspended license, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A search incident to his arrest turned up the suspected drugs, according to the sheriff’s office. He was was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
UNRULY STUDENTS
• Centralia police called to the 800 block of Eshom Road about 1:25 p.m. on Friday arrested a 14-year-old boy and two 15-year-old boys for disrupting a school, school activities or meetings. They were booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• A 53-year-old Rochester man was arrested after Chehalis police were called to the park and ride lot on the 800 block of West Main Street about 11:20 a.m. on Saturday on a report someone broke windows on a Chevrolet Blazer. Donald R. Fletcher was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree malicious mischief, according to the Chehalis Police Department, but prosecutors today declined to file the felony charge pending further investigation.
ASSAULT
• Officers responded to the 100 block of Westlake Avenue in Morton following an approximately 1:10 p.m. call on Friday for a third-degree assault. A juvenile suspect was located later on Knittles Way and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Morton Police Department.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 66-year-old man in a wheelchair who was struck by a vehicle in a parking lot at the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue about 10 a.m. on Saturday was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital to be examined, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
POSSIBLE CHILD LURING ATTEMPT
• Morton police reported today they responded on March 9 about 3:25 p.m. after a girl told her mother a male tried to lure her into his vehicle for a ride home with an orange cat at Third and Adams avenues. The suspect vehicle was described as a 2015 charcoal Honda Accord with black metallic rims, according to the Morton Police Department. Officers checked the area but were unable to located anyone of the description, according to police. The information was passed on to the other local police agencies.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, obstructing, harassment, resisting arrest, malicious mischief, reckless endangerment, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence, fourth-degree assault, protection order violation, minor in possession and/or consumption of alcohol; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, trespassing, hit and run, disorderly person, vehicle collision, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances … and more among 418 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 72-hour period ending about 7 a.m.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter