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‘DRIVE-BY PEPPER SPRAYING’
• Chehalis police were called when a 24-year-old man said an elderly driver in a black Mercedes yelled at him about how he was parked and then sprayed him with mace at the 500 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis just before 7 p.m. on Friday. The suspect – described as an old white man with a white beard – left and no arrest was made, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
THEFT, THEFT, THEFT
• An individual at the 1600 block of North Scheuber Road in Centralia reported just after 8 a.m. on Sunday that his cell phone and $5 were stolen.
• Chehalis police were called about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and told a white 2000 Nissan Altima was missing from the 10 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue. The owner contacted police the next day to say it vanished during the previous couple of days, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A ring was misplaced at a tanning bed business on the 1600 block of South Gold Street and believed to be stolen, according to a report made to police about 1:20 p.m. on Saturday.
• A person of interest has been identified in a case in which a package was stolen from the front porch of a home on the 800 block of K Street in Centralia and reported to police about 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
• An electronic tablet was reported stolen from the 1400 block of Oxford Avenue in Centralia, according to a report to police about 7:30 p.m. on Friday. A person of interest was identified by the victim and officers are still investigating the case, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A package was stolen from the front porch of a residence on the 800 block of K Street in Centralia and reported to police at about 6:20 p.m. on Friday.
• Chehalis police called about 4 p.m. on Friday for a theft from a retail store in progress at the 700 block of South Market Boulevard did not locate the suspect but the next afternoon were called to investigate an incident that might be related, connected to a gift card-type transaction, at the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DOMESTIC INCIDENTS
• A 26-year-old Centralia woman was arrested after police were called just before 1 a.m. on Sunday to the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia because she had allegedly caused over $750 worth of damages to another’s property in a domestic-type incident. Vanessa M. Gomez was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree malicious mischief, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Braden K. Burnett, 30, of Centralia, was arrested for allegedly violating a no contact order after being contacted by police in a wooded encampment near a residence on the 900 block of Dickey Road in Centralia at about 9 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Centralia Police Department. Burnett was also arrested for resisting arrest and obstructing a law enforcement officer after he allegedly attempted to flee from officers on foot, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
DRUGS
• Centralia police found two people squatting in a vacant house about 6 p.m. on Sunday at the 300 block of South Iron Street and booked one of them – Tony A. McClain, 35 – into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, heroin and stolen property, according to the Centralia Police Department. His companion, Christina D. Lozano, 35, was arrested for first-degree criminal trespassing and then released pending a court hearing, according to police. Both are from Spokane.
• A 41-year-old Centralia man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after being contacted about 9 p.m. on Saturday in a wooded encampment near a residence on the 1100 block of Dickey Road in Centralia. David C Rahnert was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A hit and run collision was reported about 11:20 a.m. on Friday after a bicyclist collided with the side of a vehicle, causing damage to the vehicle and then fled the scene at West Main Street and Tower Avenue in Centralia.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, fourth-degree domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, trespass, hit and run, shoplifting, vehicle collision, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances … and more among 393 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