ASSAULT
• Centralia police were called just after 5 p.m. on Thursday to the 200 block of East Chestnut Street because a 41-year-old man had allegedly gone inside a residence without permission and assaulted his former girlfriend. Police were unable to locate the suspect in the immediate area of the crime at the time.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called about 8:40 a.m. on Thursday to the 1000 block of South Pearl Street where tool box containing $1500 worth of tools was stolen from an outside shed.
WARRANTS
• A 37-year-old woman from Tukwila was arrested for identity theft after allegedly giving her sister’s name as her own when contacted by police in a vehicle near the boat launch on Pioneer Way in Centralia about 12:50 a.m. today. Daisy R. Mace and a Centralia man were both wanted for outstanding warrants, and were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 46-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after he was detained by police for an outstanding warrant about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at North Pearl Street and Reynolds Avenue in Centralia. Joshua L. Harris was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called just after 5 p.m. on Thursday to take a report that a passenger of an older white Jeep-type vehicle threw what was believed to be a small ball bearing at a large box van that passed by causing the windshield to be damaged.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, violation of no contact order, third-degree malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft … and more among 192 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