Burnt porch, wall on Otto Road, Centralia. / Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority
FIRE INVESTIGATION
• Investigators are looking into what ignited a fire during the night at the base of an exterior porch on a Centralia area home. Crews called about 3:45 a.m. today to the scene west of town learned the man who lived there attempted to put it out with a fire extinguisher while a woman resident called 911. The pair had discovered smoke inside the house when their dogs woke them up, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters found the fire had burned a portion of the porch and part of the outside wall. It was extinguished. The damage is estimated at $10,000, according to Fire Capt. Scott Weinert.
BURGLARY CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were asked to check out a residence on the 600 block of Northwest Quincy Place about 6:20 p.m. yesterday because the owner who was out of town got a call there was someone hanging around there. Arriving police contacted an individual coming out of the home in possession of an item from inside, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Aaron W. Neldon, 51, a relative of the owner, was arrested for second-degree burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called about 12:10 a.m. today to the 100 block of Virginia Drive on a report of an unknown suspect attempting to gain entry into several parked vehicles.
DRUGS
• When Centralia police contacted a 40-year-old Centralia man at South Scheuber and Cooks Hills roads at about 3:35 p.m. yesterday for an outstanding misdemeanor warrant, they also arrested him for possession of methamphetamine. Cyrus J. Robinson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
UNDERAGE DRINKING
• Chehalis police contacted a group of males about 9:10 p.m. yesterday at Front and Prindle streets who had been consuming alcohol. A case is being forwarded to prosecutors for a charge of minor in possession and/or consumption of alcohol related to a 17-year-old boy, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, disorderly conduct, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence, fourth-degree domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, civil issue, misdemeanor theft, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances and more among 135 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