METAL THEFT
• Somebody stole the aluminum handrail from the bridge over the Skookumchuck River at Schaeffer Park north of Centralia, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. The 240 feet of rail vanished sometime between June 13 and yesterday, according to the sheriff’s office. The loss is estimated at $5,000.
• Centralia police were called yesterday about the theft of metal from a former manufacturing plant on the 1800 block of Crescent Avenue. Police say they have a possible suspect.
OTHER THEFT
• A deputy took a report yesterday of a vehicle prowl at the Iron Creek Campground near Randle. Missing were two fly fishing rods and a reel, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of license plates stolen from a vehicle at the 1500 block of Pike Street overnight. They read: 428 TIY
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to the 500 block of Harrison Avenue about a counterfeit $20.
CAR VERSUS BICYCLE
• A 60-year-old man on a bicyclist sustained minor injuries yesterday when his bike and a car collided on Mellen Street and Marsh Avenue in Centralia, according to police. An officer was called just after 1 p.m. and noted the bicyclist got bumped, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CRASH
• Firefighters and police were called to a three-vehicle collision about 1 p.m. yesterday on the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. There were seven potential patients but just one female with an injury, to her wrist, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
MAN TRAPPED BY TRAP
• Lewis County Fire District 15 was called Monday afternoon to an incident on Camus Road where a man’s foot got stuck in a beaver trap. Firefighters cut the trap and the victim declined to go to the hospital, according to Firefighter Patrick Jacobson. It wasn’t like a bear trap, Jacobson said. It just clamped down, but didn’t cut him, he said.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter