CARS AND TRUCK STOLEN
• Centralia police took a report about 6:20 a.m. today that a 1990 Ford Ranger was stolen over the weekend from the 1100 block of K. Street.
• A blue 1998 VW Passat vanished from a driveway at the 100 block of Bowers Road outside Chehalis sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Friday and 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning.
• A sheriff’s deputy took a report on Friday that a 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis was stolen from the 100 block of Morris Road in Randle. The $5,000 car was parked at its residence at 9:30 p.m. the night before and gone at 5 a.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
BREAKING IN, BREAKING OUT
• Centralia police were called just after 9 p.m. last night about a burglary at a home on the 1400 block of View Street. The victim said two rings, some cash and approximately 100 baseball cards were missing from a bedroom, according the Centralia Police Department.
• Somebody stole a quad and parts for a Ford Mustang when they got into a temporary storage area on the 400 block of West Main Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 8 p.m. last night. Police described the quad as a blue and gray “Veto Bobcat”.
• A Bucoda-area resident returned home after the long weekend to find somebody had tried to break into her house. A deputy called about 5 p.m. on Monday to the home on the 20,200 block of Bucoda Highway Southeast was told the woman went to open the door between her garage and her her home and the metal catch fell to the floor. Nothing appeared to be missing, but the door frame was broken according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The outer garage door had been left unlocked, Lt. Chris Mealy said.
• A deputy was called about 8 a.m. on Saturday to the Tenino area when an 88-year-old man’s caregiver discovered someone had broken out the window of his pickup truck. She thought it was unusual because she had locked the gate to the driveway the night before but when she arrived to the residence on the 19,900 block of Steelhead Court Southeast, it was open, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Nothing was missing.
• Centralia police were called last night to the 400 block of South Oak Street where somebody had smashed the window of a pickup truck and tried to steal a laptop computer inside which was locked into a holder. They weren’t successful, according to the Centralia Police Department. About a half hour earlier, at 8 p.m., an officer took a report of a vehicle prowl on the 400 block of West Main Street. A window was broken and missing a GPS device, an Ipod and approximately 50 CDs, according to police.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that somebody broke the lock off a truck’s tool box and took a chop saw, a screw gun, a skill saw and a battery powered tool kit. The estimated $600 theft happened sometime on Friday on the 1300 block of state Route 508 in Onalaska, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust.
OOPS
• A 53-year-old Salkum woman was arrested overnight after a small baggie fell out of her glove box as she was getting her registration for a police officer. A Chehalis tribal officer was checking on a suspicious vehicle about 2 o’clock this morning along the 19,000 block of Anderson Road in Rochester, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Florence K. Montes said she was waiting for a friend and handed the officer an expired vehicle registration, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said. A sheriff’s deputy was called to assist and found a white substance which tested positive for amphetamine, Mealy said. Montes was booked into the Thurston County Jail for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, according to Mealy.
INHALING TOXIC FUMES
• A 22-year-old Winlock woman was jailed yesterday when deputies picked her up at a Winlock address. She was wanted by Chehalis police for inhaling toxic fumes, a misdemeanor. Law officers from Chehalis and the the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said they come across it from time to time and it grew out of former glue sniffing law. Detective Sgt. Rick McNamara and sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said the people they come across are using spray paint and even engine cleaner and either spraying it into their hand, a rag or a paper sack and then inhaling it to get kind of high. “It’s been a problem,” McNamara said. “They’re not only hurting their brain and lungs, they can kill themselves.” Ashley E. Howland was also arrested on a warrant in connection with a misdemeanor theft, according to police.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter