MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS ARRESTED FOR PAIN PILLS
• Two Centralia Middle School students were arrested yesterday after one of them brought stolen prescription pills to school and gave them to a friend. A 13-year-old boy said he’d taken three pills he thought were Oxycontin from his mother and gave them to a 14-year-old boy who bragged he had them for sale, according to police. They were actually Percocet, but also illegal to possess without a prescription, Officer Chris Fitzgerald said. School administrators searched the boy’s locker and then the 14-year-old’s shoes where found the three pills, according to Fitzgerald. Both students were booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center; the 13-year-old for delivery of a controlled substance and the 14-year-old for possession of a controlled substance. “It’s very scary for someone that young to be messing with that stuff,” Fitzgerald said. “It has really bad implications health-wise.” Fitzgerald said when she asked the 13-year-old if he knew what the medication was for, he replied, “Getting high.”
ALLEGED KNIFE BRANDISHING AND ARREST LEADS TO SCUFFLE
• A 21-year-old suspect was taken to the hospital after he was scraped up while struggling with Centralia police as he was arrested yesterday morning on the 600 block of Centralia College Boulevard, according to police. Officers called about 9:12 a.m. were told Nicholas A. Claudio, 21, a homeless person, got upset when an individual interrupted a conversation he was having and pulled out a knife, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim, whose age was not released, left and Claudio was contacted short distance away and taken into custody, police reported. He was taken to the hospital for a “pre-booking screening” in connection with abrasions he received during his arrest, according to police. He was booked for second-degree assault, but not charged pending further investigation.
MONEY MISSING
• Chehalis police were called about 11 p.m. last night to the 1500 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue about $630 cash that was lost.
DRUGS
• When Centralia police arrested a 55-year-old woman early this morning for an outstanding warrant, an officer found methamphetamine on her, according to the Centralia Police Department. Melynda J. Mann, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer in the area of the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue about 3:15 a.m. today, police reported.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter