THEFT AND FRAUD
• Centralia police took a report about 5:45 p.m. yesterday from an individual who said while he as working at a Centralia Outlet store on the 1300 block of Lum Road, somebody broke into his vehicle and stole his driver’s license, social security card and a debit card.
• Chehalis police were called about 6 p.m. yesterday when a woman retuned to her vehicle from a business on the 100 block of South Market Boulevard to find her purse had been taken.
• A 47-year-old man reported yesterday that somebody ordered bank card in his name and made $640 in purchases, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The case is being investigated as a potential theft of mail from the 100 block of Ingalls Road near Rochester sometime between March 23 and April 5, according to the sheriff’s office.
• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning from a woman who said she used her debit card at a Fred Meyer in Portland a couple of days before and then later in the day discovered her card had been used to purchase an airline ticket to British Columbia.
MORE THEFTS
• A man whose home on the 1400 block of South Schueber Road in Chehalis is being repossessed by a bank discovered a burglary in which bathroom cabinet, a counter top, cedar fencing and a well pump were among some $2,000 of items stolen, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The report was made yesterday.
• Two game cameras were reported stolen from the fire department in Mossyrock yesterday. A deputy took a report of the burglary from the station on the 700 block of Green Mountain Road was told the break-in occurred sometime between April 5 and yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The cameras are valued at $300, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Stacy Brown.
• A deputy was called to the 100 block of Sandy Lane in Centralia yesterday about the theft of tools from a shed. The break-in occurred sometime between March 20 and yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $100.
• A 1976 Ford van stolen out of Olympia was found yesterday near U.S. Highway 12 and Salkum Road in Salkum, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Police were called about 5:15 p.m. yesterday about a package that had been delivered to a front porch on the 200 block of West Cherry Street in Centralia that was stolen.
VANDALISM
• A window of a vehicle was shot out by a BB gun on the 1000 block of H Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.
DRUGS
• Eugene C. Amburgy, 44, of Bucoda, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine following a traffic sop in Chehalis about 4:30 a.m. yesterday, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was found to have a suspended license and then the suspected methamphetamine was discovered, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
WRECK INJURES TWO ON SR 508
• A Silver Creek woman and a 5-year-old girl were hospitalized with what were described as minor injuries after a car struck a telephone pole along state Route 508 about 17 miles west of Morton yesterday. Troopers called about 6:15 p.m. concluded Terie Lane, 26, of Silver Creek had fallen asleep. Lane was traveling eastbound when her car went into a ditch, hit the pole and then rolled over, according to the Washington State Patrol. The 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier was described as totaled. The pair were taken to Providence Centralia Hospital; Lane with minor neck and back injuries and the unnamed child with soreness, according to the state patrol.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter