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ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 36-year-old man was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with a leg injury after his motorcycle struck a street sign and concrete block along the 500 block of Twin Oaks Road west of Chehalis on Saturday, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. District 6’s DJ Hammer tweeted the wreck was reported just after 1 p.m. and that the patient had been wearing a helmet.
• At least one person was transported to the hospital with hip pain following a vehicle versus pedestrian collision at Harrison and Belmont avenues in Centralia just before 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BREAK-IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called just before noon on Saturday to a discovered burglary at a residence on the 1100 block of Centralia College Boulevard. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a report from the 300 block of West Plum Street about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday of the theft of a “texture” machine from a job site, that had occurred a week earlier.
AUTO THEFT
• Centralia police reported on Sunday that a white 2002 Cadillac Escalade reported stolen the morning before from a parking lot on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue was subsequently recovered near Eugene, Oregon. The vehicle was involved in a pursuit with law enforcement and the driver was captured by a police K9 after he fled the vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department. The driver had not yet been positively identified, according to police.
MORE THEFT
• Centralia police were called at 8:10 a.m. on Friday regarding mail stolen from a mailbox at the 1200 block of West First Street.
• Chehalis police on Thursday responded regarding recovered stolen property associated with the 300 block of West Main Street.
SEXUAL ASSAULT
• Chehalis police werE called about a reported rape associated with the 1500 block of Rice Road about 4:20 p.m. on Thursday. Further details were unavailable.
DRUGS
• A 45-year-old Longview resident was arrested after he was contacted by police at about 11:35 a.m. on Friday at the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia. Kenneth L. Farris was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine and heroin, according to the Centralia Police Department. A case is being referred for driving under the influence, according to police.
• A 38-year-old Centralia woman contacted by police after an 8:20 p.m. call Thursday to the 800 block of Harrison Avenue was arrested for possession of heroin. Crystal L. Harris was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. A case of two counts of third-degree theft was to be referred to prosecutors as well, according to police.
• An 18-year-old Morton resident picked up for a juvenile warrant about 11:20 a.m. on Thursday at Main and Silver streets in Centralia was also arrested for possession of methamphetamine, according to the Centralia Police Department. Darren T.S. Brewer was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
ARSON
• Chehalis police are conducting an arson investigation in connection with two fires set outside the Darigold plant on the 10 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue on Thursday evening. The damage was minimal. Firefighters called about 7:30 p.m. found one fire had been set at the south end of the building against a masonry wall, where flames had extended into an adjoining wood-constructed compressor room, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. A fire on the west side of the structure was comprised of two-by-fours and clothing, Fire Investigator Jay Birley said. The fires were extinguished with a little water, Birley said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, probation violation, driving under the influence, violation of no contact order, protection order violation, third-degree domestic malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, shoplifting, hit and run, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances … and more among the many calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 72-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter