STOLEN STUFF
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to Kentucky Fried Chicken where somebody had stolen a caddy for their grease container from behind the building. Officer Chris Fitzgerald said the wheeled cart from the business on the 600 block of West Main Street very well could have seemed like a useful item for one of the many homeless people who go there looking for discarded food.
• A black 1993 Honda Accord was reported stolen from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Chehalis on Monday afternoon, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said the owner said they were in the store on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue for about an hour and came out and it was gone. Its license plate reads AAT 1215.
• A deputy was called early Tuesday to a break-in on the 100 block of Carroll Way in Adna, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A door had been forced open.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday a generator was reported stolen from a home under construction on the 100 block of Davis View Drive in Centralia.
• A real estate employee reported a break-in to an unoccupied home for sale on the 2000 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Somebody had gone into the attic and cut wiring, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office on Monday morning.
• Deputies called to a temporarily unoccupied residence in Randle discovered two individuals who had loaded a propane tank stolen from the mobile home into a truck on Sunday night. Two women were arrested at the mobile home on the 700 block of Silverbrook Road.
• Somebody stole a stereo from car on the 1100 block of South Pearl Street, according to a report made to Centralia police on Monday morning.
ASSAULT
• A 37-year-old Centralia man was arrested for misdemeanor assault after allegedly slapping another man on the side of the head at the Lewis County Mall on Monday morning. John S. Youngbrandt was arrested for fourth-degree assault after an officer was called about 9:35 a.m. to the shopping center on Northeast Hampe Way, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said they got two different stories. One man told the officer he was just sitting there when a guy came along and slapped him on the head. The other man said he was bugging him for money and he told him to go away, Kaut said.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon about two tires being slashed on a vehicle at the 3300 block of Fords Prairie Avenue.
DRUGS
• Centralia police arrested a 38-year-old man early yesterday morning for possession of methamphetamine. Calvin C. Reece, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail after a contact with an officer about 2:40 a.m. near Mellen Street and Marsh Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter