Updated at 7 p.m.
HIT AND RUN
• Chehalis police were called just after 3 p.m. yesterday when a woman was hit by a car on the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue. The 22-year-old Chehalis resident had been standing in front of the Star Tavern when she was struck, according to the Chehalis Police Department. All she could tell police was it was a newer silver car, Chief Glenn Schaffer said this morning. Schaffer said he wasn’t sure if she was in the street on on the sidewalk. The woman was taken with minor injuries to Providence Centralia Hospital, he said.
THEFT
• A deputy was called yesterday to the 400 block of Elk Creek Road in Doty where someone had kicked open a front door and stolen two fishing rods and reels. It happened sometime between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Chehalis police were called about 3:45 p.m. yesterday about a burglary to a shed on Southwest Chehalis Avenue.
• Centralia police took a report of a vehicle prowl yesterday afternoon from the 2500 block of Fords Prairie Avenue. Three knives were taken, according to police.
DRUGS
• A 24-year-old Centralia man was arrested about 11 o’clock last night for possession of methamphetamine in Centralia after contact with an officer on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue, according to police. Oscar D. Morales Meza was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ASSAULT
• A 17-year-old Centralia resident was booked into the Lewis County Jail yesterday for second-degree rape, according to the Centralia Police Department. Officer John Panco said the arrest was related to an occurrence about a month ago.
FIRE
• Lewis County Fire District 6 was called to a fire about 9 p.m. last night at Conrad Industries in the Chehalis Industrial Park. A piece of equipment caught fire but workers there were able to extinguish it quickly, according to Marc Conrad, president of the tire recycling business. The plant runs round the clock with about a dozen employees, so fortunately someone was there to catch it when it happened, according to Conrad.
HOME-HELP NURSE ADMITS STEALING CHECKS FROM CLIENT
• A 24-year-old Centralia woman lost her nursing assistant credentials following her conviction for stealing checks from a client and forging them for an amount of about $7,700, the state Department of Health reported earlier this week. Kaci L. Comstock agreed late last month her acts constituted unprofessional conduct and her credentials to practice as a certified nursing assistant and a registered nursing assistant were suspended for at least five years, according to the state agency. Comstock was arrested in mid-February after she admitted to a sheriff’s deputy she took checks from the couple’s checkbook – a couple she worked for three days a week performing household chores, according to charging documents. She said she wrote them out to her self, signed the husband’s name and cashed them at the ATM at Bank of America, charging documents stated. Comstock was charged in Lewis County Superior Court with first-degree theft. In mid-April she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. She had no criminal history, according to the sentencing document in her court file.
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CORRECTION: The 17-year-old booked yesterday into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree rape was arrested in mid-June, not yesterday as Centralia police initially reported. He had been being held at the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center. The news item above has been corrected to reflect that.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter