MAN THREATENS CLERKS WITH SWORD IN CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police said today they are looking for a male who robbed a convenience store by threatening two clerks with a sword on Saturday night. Officers were called about 10:35 p.m. to the Market Street Market on 13th Street. Detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said the weapon appeared to be about two feet long. “He pointed it at the two employees, told them to stay back and give him the money; they complied,” McNamara said. Nobody was hurt. The amount taken was not yet added up, he said. He was in and out very quickly, he said. The robber was described as possibly in his mid-20s, but it was hard to tell because he was wearing a bandana over his face, McNamara said. He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and estimated to be 5-feet 8-inches to 5-feet 10-inches tall, and perhaps weighing between 160 to 170 pounds, McNamara said.
BOYS LIGHT UP PUBLIC BATHROOM
• A pair of 12-year-old boys were caught allegedly setting paper towels on fire inside the bathroom at Penny Playground in Chehalis on Saturday. Chehalis police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said an officer was called just after 1 p.m. and found a lot of smoke but not much damage. The case is being referred to the Lewis County Prosecutors Office for possible charges of second-degree arson, McNamara said. The children were released to their parents.
THEFT
• A resident of the 900 block of H Street in Centralia told police on Saturday morning that sometime during the night somebody entered his bedroom and took his car keys and a credit card. He found them laying in the yard near his house, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police took a report on Friday morning of a 1999 Mercury Mystic stolen during the night from the 1000 block of Gold Street in Centralia. Its owner later found it in a parking lot several blocks away, according to Centralia police.
• Somebody stole a .38 caliber chrome semi-automatic handgun, a metal detector and DVD movies when they broke into an RV on the 200 block of Centralia-Alpha Road, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Friday.
• A deputy was called just before 7 a.m. yesterday to a burglary at the 600 block of Pleasant Valley Road in Mineral. A man who was watching property for a relative said he found bolt cutters, an old fire extinguisher, three bars for a chainsaw and other items piled up in the driveway, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A 25-year-old Elbe resident, Catrina M. Peters, was subsequently arrested for second-degree burglary and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• Somebody stole outdoor solar lawn lights from a residence on the 200 block of Ahlers Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police Friday.
BAD BILLS
• Centralia police were called to two different places on Saturday about a woman passing counterfeit $100 bills. The first was at the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue a about 1:40 p.m. and a few minutes later they were called to the 1300 block of Lum Road, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police described her only as a black female wearing a red coat.
• Chehalis police were called about a counterfeit $20 bill being passed at a gas station on the 1000 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue on Friday
PAINTBALL ATTACK
• Centralia police were called about 9:30 a.m. on Saturday to a house on the 1600 block of Military Road which was struck by paintballs.
WRECK
• A 17-year-old Centralia girl was hospitalized with two possibly broken arms after a single-vehicle rollover accident on Saturday on the 300 block of Independence Road near Rochester, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies called just before 2 p.m. were told by the 16-year-old driver he felt something on his leg, looked down to swat a bug away and found his tires off the road. He over-corrected and the vehicle went into the brush onto its top and slid approximately 40 feet, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said today. Another passenger, a16-year-old Centralia boy was taken also to Providence Centralia Hospital with neck and stomach pain, Brown said. A third passenger, a Rochester boy sustained bruises from his seatbelt, she said. The driver, from Rochester, a reportedly uninjured. He was cited for driving too fast for conditions.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter