TEEN KICKS ANOTHER TEEN IN FACE, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS
• Deputies are looking for a 17-year-old Centralia resident after a Saturday incident in which he allegedly punched a 16-year-old Rochester male in the face, grabbed him by the throat and threw him to the ground and then – while the victim lay unmoving – ran up and kicked him in the face. It began when the Rochester teen and friends were at the Chehalis River off Prather Road and after the teen took a phone call from a girl he previously knew well, the girl’s brother called him and threatened to find him and beat him up, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The teen and his friends left and soon after encountered the 17-year-old brother, the girl and two other males at a stop sign and then again in the driveway of the 16-year-old’s home on the 18,700 block of Sargent Road where the assault took place, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said. The 17-year-old is facing possible arrest for felony assault, Mealy said.
PASSING MOTORIST STRIKES BICYCLE RIDER WITH OBJECT
• Chehalis police were called just before 7 p.m. last night after a male riding a bicycle along Chamber of Commerce Way was struck by a flashlight or something similar from a passing motorist, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The victim was struck in the arm but declined aid, according to police.
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES PILFERED FROM CONSTRUCTION SITE
• An estimated $5,200 stolen from a construction site at the end of Hobson Road outside Centralia included 300 feet of heavy-gauge wire, an electric water pump and a 60-gallon fuel tank, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. The theft took place sometime between 6 p.m. last Wednesday and 8 o’clock the following morning, according to the sheriff’s office.
FOUR FIREARMS STOLEN
• A Toledo-area resident reported last Thursday two rifles, a shotgun and a pistol had been stolen from his Collins Road residence and on Friday contacted the Lewis County Office again to say he had recovered two of them and was in the courthouse parking lot with the suspect, his nephew, the sheriff’s office reported this morning. Johnathan R.C. Miller, 18, of Toledo, was subsequently arrested by deputies for multiple counts involving the theft of the firearms, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust.
VEHICLE STOLEN, ANOTHER RETURNED
• Centralia police on Sunday evening recovered a vehicle stolen previously from Chehalis after a resident on the 1400 block of Logan Street in Centralia reported she noticed it parked on her block for the previous four days.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a black and gray 1988 Chevrolet Suburban was stolen sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning from the 200 block of Hamilton Road outside Chehalis.
BURGLARIES IN CENTRALIA AND CHEHALIS
• Centralia police took a report about 8 p.m. on Saturday that somebody stole two laptop computers, a Wii entertainment system and a small amount of cash from the 200 block of E. Carson Street in Centralia.
• Chehalis police took a report about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday that somebody entered through an unlocked garage door on the 300 block of James Street and stole electronics, including video games.
PROWLING VEHICLES, SMASHING WINDOWS
• An iPod and a wallet were taken from a vehicle on the 900 block of H Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. At noon the same day, police took a report somebody broke a window of a vehicle on the 500 block of North Iron Street and took a purse.
• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office this morning reported they received an online report of vandalism to a vehicle last week. The window of a car was broken out sometime on the 18,800 block of Guava Street in Rochester sometime on July 4.
• Centralia police took a report about 2:20 p.m. on Sunday a window was broken out a vehicle on the 2600 block of Borst Avenue. Just before noon on Saturday, police were called about the windshield being broken out another vehicle on the 100 block of South Barner Drive. The inside of that vehicle was ransacked, but nothing was taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter