STOLEN CAR
• A Chehalis police officer alerted to a stolen vehicle through their automatic license plate reader device in the Wal-Mart parking lot last night arrested a 28-year-old Kelso resident. The officer got a “hit” on the 1990 Honda Accord and waited until its driver returned to the car around 11:40 p.m., according to Chehalis police. The automobile had been reported stolen from Kelso. Terry S. Dunivin was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of methamphetamine, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.
STOLEN GUN
• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about the theft of a .22 rifle from a home on the 700 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue. There was no indication of forced entry and the gun had been taken sometime since the weekend, according to police.
STOLEN STEREO
• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning of a car prowl at the 1200 block of Lum Road. The stereo and some paperwork were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
COLLISIONS AND NEAR MISS
• Two semi-trucks tangled up on Harrison Avenue near the Skookumchuck bridge in Centralia yesterday but there no injuries, according to Riverside Fire Authority. One of them had to be towed, Fire Capt. Erik Olson said.
• Firefighters were called to a chain reaction collision on Interstate 5 north of Harrison Avenue about 8 p.m. last night in which a half dozen vehicles were involved, according to Riverside Fire Authority. No one was injured, Fire Capt. Erik Olson said.
• A 20-year-old Winlock man was jailed after he slid through a stop sign nearly colliding with a sheriff’s deputy in Winlock on Wednesday night. The detective was traveling north on North Military Road in a marked patrol car about 8 p.m. and slowed to prevent a collision with a vehicle traveling fast eastbound on Anterim Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle missed the detective’s driver’s side door by about four feet and then accelerated away after the detective activated his lights, Chief Criminal Deputy Stacy Brown said. The fleeing vehicle finally stopped about three miles away at Tory Lynn Drive, Brown said. A struggle ensued and Colton W. Stevens, 20, was taken into custody, she said. He was intoxicated, and booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempting to elude, resisting arrest and reckless driving, according to Brown.
CHIMNEY FIRE
• Lewis County Fire District 15 was called about 6 p.m. last night to a chimney fire at a home on state Route 505 near Morton Road in Winlock. Firefighters were able to “steam it out” from inside the house and prevent it from spreading, according to Firefighter Patrick Jacobson.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter