By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – As deputies searched yesterday for the man suspected of shooting and wounding a woman in Napavine, they arrested four people at a “flop house” in Centralia.
Javier Jimenez Villalavazo, 22, is believed to be the gun man who on Sunday night fired at a 24-year-old Centralia woman outside a Napavine apartment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
On Tuesday, a sheriff’s detective and other officers went to a house on the 600 block of State Street in south Centralia looking for Villalavazo, who also reportedly goes by the name “The Joker”.
Instead, they found 32 grams of suspected heroin, 24 grams of suspected methamphetamine, 11-plus grams of marijuana, digital scales, baggies and other paraphernalia, according to charging documents in Lewis County Superior Court.
Two men and two women at the house were arrested and then charged today with possession of methamphetamine and possession of heroin, according to the filings in their cases.
Charged were the resident, Ian D. Angelo, 33; John L. McNeal, 26, who said he’d lived there about a month; Natalie E. Sanchez-Anderson, 19; and Tammy R. Viers, 39.
All were ordered held on $10,000 bail. McNeal and Sanchez-Anderson have already been released.
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