WRECK IN BOISTFORT VALLEY SENDS ONE TO HOSPITAL
• A 45-year-old Curtis resident was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after his vehicle collided with a parked truck yesterday evening on Boistfort Road near Hubbard Road. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported that Joseph F. Sanchez came around a corner too fast, lost control and pushed the unoccupied truck through a chain link fence. His Ford pickup truck was described as likely totaled. A helicopter picked him up at Boistfort Elementary School and flew him to the Seattle trauma center, primarily because of the possibility of internal injuries due to the force of the collision, according to authorities. Sanchez is listed in satisfactory condition this morning. He was to be cited for not wearing a seatbelt, among other infractions after the approximately 7:30 p.m. accident.
POLICE PURSUIT ENDS AT CENTRALIA MOTEL 6
• A driver traveling at some points more than 100 mph fled a pursuing sheriff’s deputy in Centralia last night, but ended up being arrested at Motel 6, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Susannah L. Hickman, 21, of Chehalis, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempting to elude. It began when a vehicle passed the deputy in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near the Mellen Street exit and continued off Harrison Avenue where she allegedly raced through several red lights before stopping, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said Hickman had just been involved in a hit and run accident before passing the deputy. She didn’t report details of the accident.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 10:30 p.m. last night about the theft of a big screen television from an apartment on the 1100 block of South Pearl Street.
• An officer was called about a Wii stolen from a residence on the 600 block of South Gold Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 9:30 p.m. last night.
• Somebody removed a Mercury outboard motor from a boat parked on the 200 block of Interstate Avenue at the Best Western Motel in Chehalis, according to a report made to the Chehalis Police Department yesterday morning. The victim, who is from out of town, thought it occurred sometime over the weekend, according to police.
• An individual confronted two subjects who were trying to take a tool box from property at the 1400 block of Delaware Avenue in Centralia at about 8:20 p.m. last night, but they fled before police arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Lewis County Crime Stoppers is looking for tips about a $5,000 dump trailer stolen from inside a fenced compound on the 1500 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. The theft of the black trailer was reported on March 13. It has a license plate reading 0601TX.
• Somebody broke into a vehicle and then threw items onto the lawn at the 700 block of H Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police last night.
HOUSE SHOT WITH BB GUN
• Centralia police reported this morning an officer took a report of a window of a house being shot with a BB gun on the 600 block of East Summa Street. it happened last week and police think it may be related to another incident in the area.
DRUGS FOUND AT STORAGE UNIT
• Chehalis police were called to North National Avenue yesterday when an individual cleaning out a storage building found a small amount of suspected marijuana. The material was taken away to be destroyed, according to police.
MASS WARRANT ARRESTS
• A warrant sweep last week by law enforcement in Lewis and Cowlitz counties ended with 51 arrests. Six teams began making arrests early Thursday with assistance from officers from Centralia, Chehalis, Kelso, Longview, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshal’s Service, according to a state Department of Corrections’ news release today. Twenty-seven of those picked up were previously convicted of violent crimes, according to the DOC.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter