ASSAULTS
• A 32-year-old Onalaska man was arrested early Saturday morning after he allegedly tried to strangle the father of his girlfriend during a disagreement over him moving out of the home, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Obadiah D. Ratkie, 32, was arrested for second-degree assault following the call just before 1 a.m. to an apartment on the 300 block of Second Street West in Onalaska. The 48-year-old victim declined aid, Chief Stacy Brown said. Ratkie was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
• A trio of young people were arrested for hitting and punching a 35-year-old man at the bowling alley on the 1500 block of South Gold Street in Centralia on Saturday evening and within less than 30 minutes, one of the suspects, a female, was accused of getting into physical altercation at the Fairway Shopping Center with a 39-year-old woman, according to Centralia police. Officers called about 6 p.m. were told by the first victim his ex-girlfriend showed up with some other people and assaulted him, police said. Delores M. Lima-Perez, 21, of Chehalis, was arrested for misdemeanor assault from the first situation and then for the same offense which involved hitting and scratching in the second incident, according to police. Centralia Police Officer Paul McCormick said it wasn’t clear what the disputes were about but said, “It seems like kind of a triangle.” Also arrested for fourth-degree assault were her sister, Inez M. Lima-Perez, 21, of Chehalis; Jovanny Montenegro Perez, 20, for Chehalis; and Omar Perez Ramirez, 19, Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT AND BURGLARY
• Somebody crawled through a small kitchen window at an apartment on the 1500 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis and made off with pain pills, according to a report made to Chehalis police on Saturday morning. Missing were an estimated 15 to 20 Oxycontin pills, according to police.
• Centralia police took a report of the theft of medication (unspecified) from the 500 block of South Ash Street on Friday morning.
• Centralia police took a report about a burglary to a business on the 100 block of North Tower Avenue on Friday morning.
• An estimated $4,440 of items were stolen from a shop building in Randle, according to a report taken on Saturday afternoon. Among the items taken sometime in the previous two weeks from the building on the 300 block of Old Barn Road were tools, a generator and a Suzuki motorcycle, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A deputy took a report of a break-in to a shed at the 200 block of Jorgenson Road in Onalaska on Friday morning. Missing was a device used to tune a car stereo into an iPod, valued at $85, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police took a report Saturday at the 300 block of North Tower Avenue that a vehicle had been stolen sometime the night before, but it was found abandoned about a mile away before the day ended.
• Chehalis police were called Saturday evening to a vehicle prowl at K-Mart on Northwest Louisiana Avenue.
• A deputy was called about 11 a.m. on Saturday to the 900 block of Hillberger Road outside Chehalis where two juveniles were seen running from a vehicle that had been prowled. It appeared a large rock had been used to break a window and two purses inside were missing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police were called about three vehicles being broken into on Saturday morning on the 1500 block of Belmont Avenue. Nothing appeared to be missing, but it seemed someone had tried to actually steal a Honda passenger car, according to Centralia police.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called Sunday morning to the 900 block of Southeast Washington Avenue where somebody had thrown dog poop on a vehicle.
DRUGS
• Deputies found numerous baggies of suspected methamphetamine, various unprescribed pills and drug paraphernalia when they searched a trailer and a woman on the 3800 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia on Friday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies had accompanied a Department of Corrections officer there who was making contact with a 42-year-old woman, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The case was referred for possible charges of possession of drugs, Brown said.
UNDERAGE DRINKING AT DANCE
• Two underage males were detained for being intoxicated at a dance on Saturday night at W.F. West High School in Chehalis. The school principal called police because he suspected the 17-year-old Chehalis by and 20-year-old Napavine had been drinking, according to Chehalis police.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter