A car and a school bus collided on Sargent Road in Rochester about 3 p.m. on Monday/ Courtesy photo by West Thurston Regional Fire Authority
SCHOOL BUS AND CAR CRASH NEAR ROCHESTER INTERSECTION
• Nobody was seriously hurt but a passenger car was destroyed when it and a school bus collided yesterday afternoon in Rochester. It happened at 3 p.m. almost in front of the fire station, near the intersection of Sargent Road and 187 Avenue Southwest, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. Four middle to high school-age students on the bus were uninjured, Fire Chief Robert Scott said. Both the driver of the car and the bus driver declined responder’s advice to be taken to the hospital, Scott said.
DOMESTIC INCIDENT SPARKS ARREST
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday that deputies arrested a 25-year-old Centralia man for unlawful imprisonment following a call on Sunday in the Winlock area about an incident in which he allegedly pushed his girlfriend around and refused to let her leave for about three hours. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail but has been released pending further investigation.
MAN FLEES DEPUTIES, POLICE DOG TRACKS HIM DOWN
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday that after a deputy contacted a wanted man in Onalaska about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, he fled and was tracked down by a police dog from Centralia. Mickey W. Graham, 21, was booked into the Lewis County Jail after being found near an apartment complex on the 100 block of Third Street, according to the sheriff’s office.
THEFTS
• A white 1993 Honda was reported missing about 8:30 a.m. on Saturday from the 400 block of Hart Road in Winlock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The car is valued at about $2,000.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday an estimated $1,780 of valuables were reported missing from the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia. A 360 X-box, eight games and a 22-inch gold necklace with an anchor and a Jesus figure were among the items stolen, according to the sheriff’s office. The burglary occurred sometime between 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1:30 the following morning.
• Deputies responding to an alarm about 1:30 a.m. yesterday at the Chevron station on the 1100 block of state Route 6 outside Chehalis found a wet shoe print and pry marks on a back door, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A deputy took a report about 11:15 p.m. on Friday night of a vehicle prowl on the 100 block of Bay Road in Winlock. Somebody had rummaged through a purse and also taken a cell phone. The phone was later found in a puddle near the vehicle.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report just before 4 p.m. yesterday that somebody threw a rock at a vehicle which cracked a window and mirror on the 700 block of E Street.
CHIMNEY FIRE
• The Chehalis Fire Department was called to a chimney fire just before 4:30 p.m. yesterday on Southwest Salsbury Avenue. The flames were confined to the chimney pipe of the wood stove, according to Fire Capt. Ted McCarty. The captain said he didn’t think the chimney had been cleaned this year.
STOVE FIRE
• Firefighters called to the 1500 block of Southwest William Street yesterday found an older woman with a smoked up home who had turned on the wrong burner. While her eggs never boiled, her dry teapot ended up fused to a stove burner, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.
CHILD MOLESTATION ARREST
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday a 40-year-old Toledo man was arrested for second-degree child molestation on Friday for an incident that allegedly occurred between Dec. 21 and 23 in the Toledo area involving a 13-year-old. Scott E. Palmer was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter