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Updated at 10:58 a.m.
KNIFE WIELDING MAN BOOKED
• A 31-year-old man was arrested overnight after he allegedly threatened and lunged toward two people, with a knife, during a domestic dispute at a motel on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Officers called about 3:30 a.m. found the suspect had fled the scene and the victims were uninjured, according to the Centralia Police Department. When Brian M. Jackson, 31, of Mobile, Alabama, returned, he was arrested for two counts of first-degree assault and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
CHEHALIS SENIOR SCAMMED
• Chehalis police are investigating to find out who called an 80-year-old woman claiming to be from Publisher’s Clearing House and got her to send them $250. An officer was called to the 400 block of Northeast Washington Avenue about 8 a.m. yesterday and the department will be following up with the jurisdiction located where her money was sent, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 10:15 a.m. yesterday for a burglary to a residence undergoing a remodel at the 2300 block of Sirkka Avenue. A vehicle was seen there, but left before officers arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called about 12:15 p.m. yesterday regarding the theft of washer and dryer from a side yard at the 800 block of South Tower Avenue.
KIDS ALONE IN CAR
• A 29-year-old Centralia woman was issued a citation yesterday evening for leaving minor children unattended in a vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Chehalis, according to the Chehalis Police Department. An officer was in the area about 15 minutes and spoke to the three boys, ages 10, 5 and 3, before two adults returned to the vehicle from inside the store, according to police. Rakala B. Campbell was arrested and then released, according to police. City ordinance requires a child to be at least 12 years old to be left alone in a vehicle, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday to take a report of someone smashing out the window to the rear door of an uninhabitable residence at the 900 block of North Washington Avenue.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 20-year-old woman was airlifted to a trauma center after a collision in which her vehicle went through a guard rail and came to rest on its top about 50 feet down an embankment along southbound Interstate 5 near milepost 68 yesterday afternoon. Troopers called to the scene about 2:20 p.m. are investigating the cause, according to the Washington State Patrol. Firefighters from Lewis County Fire Districts 5 and 15 responded as well. Kira R. Wirt of Vancouver, Washington was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer and suffered a broken arm, fractured pelvis and possible head injury, according to Trooper Will Finn.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, trespassing, civil issue, trespassing, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances … and more among 142 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter