SMOKE BUT NO FIRE
• The new pizza parlor on Harrison Avenue near Interstate 5 in Centralia was evacuated briefly last night when someone smelled and saw light smoke inside the building, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters called about 8:30 p.m. determined a motor – for the blower in the heating system – on the roof has burned up, fire Capt. Tim Adolphsen said. Firefighters shut off the power and turned the building back over to the business, Adolphsen said.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of South Tower Avenue about the theft of mail.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office recovered a stolen vehicle yesterday on the 900 block of Koontz Road. A deputy was told it was purchased for $7,000 from a business in Fife. It was stolen out of Pierce County and valued at $25,000, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• Crime Stoppers of Lewis County reports that an antique claw-foot bathtub and several thousand dollars of wire was stolen in a burglary on the 300 block of Garrard Creek Road in Rochester sometime between last Thursday evening and the following morning.
SLEDGE HAMMER VERSUS TRUCK
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning they arrested a 22-year-old Randle resident for an April 18 incident in which he allegedly took a sledge hammer to a truck being driven by a juvenile male on Silverbrook Road in Randle. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said Blaine M. Murphy, 22, was arrested for malicious mischief. Information about when he was arrested was not reported or readily available.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter