DRUGS
• Chehalis police were called to a drug and alcohol treatment center on Washington Avenue yesterday after suspected methamphetamine was found in a client’s room. Lynette R. Malo, 40, from Auburn, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
• Officers responding to a Centralia home for a report of a vicious dog yesterday subsequently discovered three marijuana plants growing there. The case of the 18-year-old resident of the home on the 600 block of South Gold Street is being referred to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s office for possible charges, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ASSAULT
• A 28-year-old Toledo man was arrested for second-degree assault after police were called early Thursday morning to the 1200 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia. William L. Kennedy was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called to a shoplifting incident about 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in which at least one of the two suspects engaged in a physical altercation with a security officer before they fled. No arrests were made.
THEFT
• Centralia police called to the 500 block of East Main Street yesterday took a report of $2,000 stolen from an individual’s pre-paid credit card.
• Police took a report on Wednesday from the 1400 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia of somebody using an individual’s name to cash checks.
VANDALISM
• Police were called about noon on Wednesday to the 1100 block of West Pear Street where someone had thrown a rock through a window.
• Centralia police were called to the 200 block of West Pear Street on Wednesday morning where there were two small holes in the rear window of a vehicle.
WRECK
• An adult male was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after an early-morning single-vehicle wreck on North Gold Street at Ham Hill Road yesterday. Aid and police were called about 12:30 a.m. when his pickup truck slid into a light pole, according to responders.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter