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CENTRALIA MAN THREATENS GRANDMOTHER WITH KNIFE, POLICE SAY

• Centralia police arrested a 33-year-old man yesterday evening who reportedly armed himself with a kitchen knife and threatened to cut his grandmother’s throat. When officers arrived to the home on the 300 block of Yew Street, Rainier P. Wagner was laying outside on the ground crying and shouting, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Kurt Reichert said the 81-year-old grandmother had gone to Wagner’s home to check on him and he was upset because he couldn’t find his cigarette papers. Wagner was rambling about how much pain he was in and talking about imaginary people, Reichert said. Wagner was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, domestic violence, according to police.

FIGHT OVER MOTHER’S WILL LANDS WOMAN IN JAIL

• A 50-year-old woman was arrested for misdemeanor assault in Centralia last night following a dispute with her sister over their mother’s will, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officers called about 10 p.m. to the 900 block of South Schueber Road booked Linda L. Schultz, of Chehalis, into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

CARETAKER ARRESTED FOR STEALING CHECKS

• An 84-year-old Centralia-area woman reported yesterday nine of her checks had been stolen and then cashed at various locations, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The total was $7,700. The woman’s caretaker, Kaci L. Comstock, 24, of Centralia, was subsequently arrested and booked for first-degree theft, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said.

THEFTS

• Sometime between 3:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. yesterday, somebody entered an unlocked house on the 3700 block of Mayberry Road outside Centralia and stole a laptop computer, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Centralia police took a report about 4 p.m. yesterday of a greenish 1993 Honda Accord stolen from North Washington Avenue. The four door car has a license plate reading 666 ZHA, light-colored window tinting which is bubbling up and a trailer hitch-style dent in the front bumper, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday about the theft of a gray 1990 Honda Accord. from the corner of Northwest Rhode Island Avenue and Northwest West Street.

• Police were called to the 1100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia yesterday where someone had attempted overnight to remove stereo equipment from a vehicle, according to the Centralia Police Department.

FIRE

• Firefighters were called to a residence in Grand Mound yesterday afternoon when a BBQ apparently malfunctioned and caught the side of a house on fire. Fire Chief Robert Scott said an individual had attempted to douse it with a garden hose, but firefighters finished putting it out with a dry chemical extinguisher. The damage to the siding on the home at the 6400 block of 201st Avenue Southwest was minimal, Scott said. The chief said he believed a hose for the BBQ failed.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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