CLIENT AT SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE FIGHTS WITH GUARD, POLICE SAY
• A 64-year-old Onalaska woman was jailed yesterday after she allegedly swung her purse at a guard at the Social Security office in Centralia. Police Sgt. Carl Buster said the woman was asked to leave the Cooks Hill Road building after she became unruly, upset because she wasn’t being seen. She left, then returned and swung her purse at the guard and hit him repeatedly, according to Buster. “She got him several times before he was able to take her to the ground,” Buster said. Casandra N. Brower, 64, was arrested for third-degree assault and booked into the Lewis County Jail.
SHOPLIFTING GONE BAD
• A 27-year-old woman who allegedly shoplifted pens and hand lotion from a Centralia store was arrested for second-degree robbery yesterday because she shoved a clerk who told her to come back, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer called about 9:30 p.m. to Fullers Market on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue found Lindsay C. Watson also was in possession of suspected heroin and methamphetamine, according to Sgt. Carl Buster. The Centralia woman was booked into the Lewis County Jail. Buster said what would have been a simple misdemeanor becomes a felony if a person uses force to take or retain property.
ORDINARY SHOPLIFTING
• Police were called back to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue about 6:15 a.m. today and detained a 23-year-old Centralia woman for shoplifting. Kari N. Driver was arrested and released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AUTO THEFTS
• Centralia police reported the recovery of a stolen vehicle yesterday afternoon connected with a location of the 1000 block of North Schueber Road.
• Centralia police took a report of an apparent attempted theft of a vehicle on the 900 block of South Silver Street yesterday morning. Somebody got inside and tore the console apart as though trying to hot wire the vehicle, according to police.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called to a downtown business about 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday after a citizen reported a door was open. An officer responding to the location on the 100 block of North Tower Avenue found nobody inside but an owner subsequently discovered money was missing from the till.
THEFT
• Centralia police report an individual at the 1100 block of Stillwaters Avenue fell victim to a phone scam, according to a report taken by police on Wednesday.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter