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LEVEE TARGETED WITH EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a pipe bomb was found atop a levee behind a residence on the 1200 block of Long Road in Centralia on Saturday. The Washington State Patrol bomb squad was summoned and rendered the 8-inch device safe just before 3 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office. There is no suspect information, Chief Deputy Bruce Kimsey said.
ASSAULT REPORTED
• Chehalis police were called to the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center on the 1200 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue about 9:15 p.m. on Sunday to take a report of an assault. Further details were not available.
THEFT, THEFT, THEFT
• A 26-year-old Centralia man was arrested after a search at his residence on Friday afternoon turned up eight Toyo mud tires reported missing a week earlier from an acquaintance’s property in the 100 block of Mountain View Lane in Ethel. Deputies went to the home of Zachary Meikle at the 300 block of North Street in Centralia with a search warrant and booked Meikle into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree possession of stolen property and an outstanding warrant, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The recovered property was valued at $4,600, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A deputy was called to the 2300 block of Wildwood Road on Friday afternoon following the discovery by a woman that sometime since November 7, someone stole her John Deere model 8100 tractor and irrigation pumps. The loss is estimated at $139,000, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Officers arrested Kenneth D. Goble, a 36-year-old homeless person, for an alleged burglary near the 100 block of Aberdeen Road in Morton on Friday morning. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail without incident, according to the Morton Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called to the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue about 2:35 p.m. on Monday following the discovery via security footage that about four and half hours after a package was delivered on Sunday, someone came onto the porch and stole it. The missing parcel contained ladies shoes, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called to the 10 block of Southwest Fifth Street on Friday evening to investigate the theft of a potted Japanese maple tree from a front yard of a residence. The value is approximately $80, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A business in the 1300 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis reported on Friday they had two customers who failed to return property they were leasing, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The cases are under investigation.
• Morton police responded to the 100 block of Seventh Street in Morton following a 2:23 p.m. call on Wednesday to take a report of guns getting stolen. The owner was unaware of when the possible theft took place and had very little information on the firearms, according to the Morton Police Department. The case is pending further information, according to police.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 50-year-old motorist who allegedly fled a deputy outside the Packwood Flea Market on Saturday afternoon, driving through a ditch and weaving between parked cars and pedestrians was finally contacted in a parking lot and arrested on Saturday afternoon. A deputy had seen he was not wearing a seatbelt and waved him over, but he took off, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Ty L. Groshong, of Auburn, smelled strongly of intoxicants, according to the sheriff’s office. A search incident to his arrest turned up several containers of prescription pills, which were not “prescribed containers,” Chief Deputy Bruce Kimsey said. Groshong was booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempting to elude and possession of a controlled substance without prescription; a case for driving under the influence will be referred to prosecutors, according to Kimsey.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, fourth-degree domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, suspicious circumstances … and more among 127 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