VIDEO GAME PLAYING TURNS UGLY IN RANDLE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested a 19-year-old Randle resident they say got so angry when repeatedly losing at a video game, he allegedly choked, hit and bit his opponent, as well as held a survival knife to his throat. Deputies were called about 8:20 p.m. on Sunday about the attack on the 100 block of Cispus Road but couldn’t respond because of flooding in the area, according to the the sheriff’s office. The 19-year-old’s grandmother said the two had been separated into their different homes, Chief Stacy Brown said this morning. Yesterday, deputies arrested Jeffrey T. Peddie, 19, of Randle, for second-degree assault, Brown said. Peddie reportedly got upset because the 17-year-old kept winning and also allegedly also threatened the 17-year-old boy with a box cutter, leaving the victim with bruises on his face, as well as bite marks and punctures on his back, arms and fingers, Brown said.
STORAGE UNIT BUSINESS DISCOVERS MASSIVE THEFT
• Somebody pried open a roll up garage door to a storage unit in Grand Mound and managed to break through walls and ceilings to burglarize six different storage spaces of about $10,000 in valuables over the weekend. The theft at the Grand Mound Mini-storage on the 20,600 block of Grand Mound Way was discovered on Sunday, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Two individuals who rented the six spaces lost items such as aluminum semi-truck wheels, a specialty torque wrench, auto supplies and other tools, Lt. Greg Elwin said this morning.
TRIO OF BURGLARIES IN ROCHESTER NEIGHBORHOOD
• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office took reports of three break-ins that all occurred on the same night near 178th Avenue Southwest and Applegate Street in Rochester. Lt Greg Elwin said said the thefts happened between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Friday. Somebody went into a vehicle inside a garage and took items like binoculars and sunglasses and someone went into another garage and stole power and electric tools, he said. Somebody also prowled a pickup truck parked in a driveway, Elwin said. He indicated it seemed likely given the time frame and proximity the victims were all targeted by the same individual.
CAR THEFT IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called to the Mellen Street park and ride just before 5 p.m. yesterday after a motorist discovered their purple 1994 Acura left there in the morning was gone. The car has a license plate of 823 MBQ.
CAR PROWLS
• Police were called about 4:30 p.m. yesterday about a car prowl on Lum Road. A laptop was taken from an unlocked vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police also yesterday took a report of a car prowl from South Pearl and West Main streets in which a backpack was stolen from a vehicle. It occurred about a week and a half ago, police reported.
VEHICLE VERSUS PEDESTRIAN
• Centralia police reported this morning an officer responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian accident on North Schueber Road at about 8:45 p.m. last night. The injuries were minor, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter