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Updated at 11:55 a.m.
BURGLARY
• A deputy responded about 10:50 p.m. yesterday for a break-in to a detached garage at a residence on the 100 block of Union Avenue in which a commercial paint sprayer, a compound bow, gas cans, a Poulan chainsaw and various tools were stolen. It happened between 6 p.m. on Tuesday and 4 p.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police responded just after 3 a.m. today for an attempted break-in to a business on the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue.
THEFT
• Chehalis police were called by an individual who left a wallet, possibly in the restroom, at Wal-Mart about 8:30 p.m. yesterday. It was a purple wallet with a gold symbol containing bank cards and checks, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Nobody turned it in, according to police.
DRUGS
• A 25-year-old Chehalis resident contacted by police about outstanding warrants just before 5 o’clock this morning at the 800 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia was arrested for possession of methamphetamine. Derreck J. Larson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• John W. Franken, 34, of Centralia, was arrested on an outstanding warrant and possession of methamphetamine when contacted by police about 9:50 a.m. yesterday at the 600 block of Jefferson Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• Ten people were injured when an 84-year-old motorist from Centralia failed to stop for traffic stopped in a work zone causing a chain reaction collision involving four other vehicles yesterday in Wahkiakum County, according to the Washington State Patrol. Niels W. Paulsen, 84, from Centralia was driving a Ford F350 pickup and was transported by aid to St. Johns as were eight others, according to the state patrol. The 64-year-old driver of a Ford Excursion was airlifted to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, according to the state patrol. Troopers called at 1:25 p.m. to eastbound state Route 4 about eight miles east of Cathlamet indicate it was unknown if seven injured children in the Excursion had been wearing seat belts. The collision is under investigation.
CHICK WARMER IGNITES HOUSE FIRE
• An unattended heat lamp in a plastic container for chicks sparked a fire on the wooden front porch of an Onalaska area residence yesterday. Flames were able to get into the attic space from the front eves of the double-wide mobile home on the 600 block of Gish Road, according to Fire Investigator Derrick Paul. Lewis County Fire District 1 was called at 12:11 p.m. when a passing motorist noticed the fire, according to Paul. They were joined by personnel from Lewis County Fire Districts 8, 6 and 5, he said. The owners were not home when the fire broke out and none of the chicks survived, according to Paul.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, obstructing, fourth-degree domestic assault, driving with suspended license, protection order violation; responses for alarm, dispute, disturbance, shoplifting, civil issue, hit and run, vandalism, vehicle collision, disorderly person, malicious mischief, suspicious circumstances … and more among 156 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m.
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Gish Road porch is charred. / Courtesy photo by Derrick Paul
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter