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VEHICLE THEFT
• Centralia police were called at 9:25 a.m. yesterday for the theft of a red 2006 Toyota Tacoma from a driveway on the 1300 block of Oxford Avenue. The vehicle was running while the owner ran back into the house for a minute and when he went back outside, he saw the truck driving away, according to the Centralia Police Department. It has a license plate reading C30350K, according to police.
BAD BILLS
• An officer was called just after 11 a.m. yesterday to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis where a customer attempted to pay for merchandise with five of what appeared to be fake $100 bills. The individual had left before police arrived, and the money was confirmed as counterfeit, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called to the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue about 8:30 a.m. yesterday to collect a dozen counterfeit $50 bills and one fake $100 that a client had reportedly arrived with. The case will be forwarded to prosecutors for charging, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
DRUGS
• An officer called about a suspicious person walking in the shadows on a sidewalk at the 600 block of Southwest 20th Street in Chehalis at about 10:30 p.m. yesterday arrived to find the individual was wanted on an outstanding warrant. A search incident to his arrest turned up paraphernalia and suspected heroin, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Joseph K. Dodd, 37, from Chehalis, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
NO CAUSE PINPOINTED FOR FATAL HOUSE FIRE
• Riverside Fire Authority said yesterday it has finished its investigation into the house fire that claimed the life of a 69-year-old Centralia woman almost three weeks ago and are listing its cause as undetermined. Crews were called to the two-story residence on the 1300 block of West Main Street at 8:15 p.m. on Jan. 25. Susan K. Davis was removed from the home, and taken to Providence Centralia Hospital where she was pronounced dead from smoke inhalation, according to authorities. Investigators determined the fire originated in the victim’s bedroom, in the area of the flooring between the bed and interior west-side wall, according to fire Capt. Scott Weinert. They believe the fire was an unfortunate and tragic accident, could not figure out for certain what happened. They were unable to identify or eliminate all possible sources of ignition because they didn’t have the ability to test all hypotheses in a laboratory environment, according to Weinert. The lead investigator has met with a representative of Davis’s family to share the findings, and the fire department in its statement yesterday afternoon said it wished to extend its heartfelt condolences to her entire family.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, third-degree theft, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft, protection order violation and more among 148 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.