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BURGLARY RANDLE
• A deputy was called to the 800 block of Peters Road in Randle about 11 a.m. yesterday following the discovery someone had forced open a shop door at the Cowlitz Falls Campground, gone inside and left with numerous tools. It happened sometime since 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the items stolen were a Makita drill bit set, two Makita socket sets, a Skil sander and a saw attachment, according to the sheriff’s office.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 1:20 a.m. today regarding a vehicle stolen from the parking lot area of the Centralia Outlets at the 100 block of West High Street sometime after 4 p.m. yesterday. The vehicle was recovered about a block away with no signs of forced entry and returned to the owner, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GUNS STOLEN VADER
• A Vader woman reported about 2:40 p.m. yesterday that someone stole two firearms and as many as a dozen boxes of 12-gauge shotgun shells from her home sometime since Oct. 17. A deputy responding to the 300 block of Annonen Road learned one of the missing guns was a 38 special revolver and the other a silver pistol with a seven-round magazine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is about $800, according to the sheriff’s office.
CAR PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 4:20 p.m. yesterday to the 1500 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue where a woman said she had left her purse and her dogs inside her vehicle and when she returned, the purse was missing.
DRUGS
• A 39-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of a controlled substance when a suspect Oxycontin pill was located on his person during a search incident to arrest for a warrant about 8:30 p.m. yesterday and South Gold and Chestnut streets in Centralia. Clim G. Grant was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
• A 15-year-old boy was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after he was contacted by the police about 11:10 a.m. yesterday about an outstanding warrant at the 800 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, resisting arrest, trespassing, probation violation, driving with suspended license, fourth-degree domestic assault, operating motor vehicle without required ignition interlock device; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, disorderly person, vehicle collision, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances … and more among 148 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