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CRIMES AGAINST PEOPLE
• Centralia police were called to the 1400 block of Maple Valley Drive at 4:36 p.m. yesterday regarding an assault. A person was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. The jail log indicates Darren E. Ellis was booked at 6:20 p.m. yesterday.
• Gonzalo Murillo Ontiveros, 28 of Centralia was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for unlawful domestic imprisonment following a call about 10:10 p.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of West Main Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
PORCH PILFERING
• Chehalis police were called about 11:35 a.m. yesterday because a chainsaw had been stolen from a porch within the previous hour on the 1000 block of Southwest McFadden Avenue. Missing is an older Stihl chainsaw model MS260 with an 18-inch bar, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
BAD BILL
• Chehalis police were called to the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue about 2:15 p.m. yesterday because a 39-year-old Portland man tried to pay for fuel with a counterfeit $100 bill. The case is being forwarded to prosecutors for a charge of counterfeiting, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
FRAUD
• Chehalis police were called about 2:20 p.m. yesterday to take a report of fraud associated with a location on the 100 block of Southwest Third Street.
LEFT ALONE
• A 47-year-old Ethel man, Otis S. Dezern, was issued a citation for leaving a child alone in a vehicle after Chehalis police were called to the parking lot of a grocery store at the 1300 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue about 4 p.m. yesterday because a 3- to 4-year-old was observed alone inside a parked vehicle, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, third-degree theft, probation violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, fourth-degree domestic assault, third-degree domestic malicious mischief; responses for alarm, dispute, harassment, trespassing, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor assault and more among 123 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