RAPE
• Police arrested a 36-year-old Centralia man for second-degree rape early yesterday morning on the 3000 block of Fords Prairie Avenue. Jason B. Banks had been staying a few days with a friend, and she awoke about 4 o’clock in the morning to him attacking her, according to Officer John Panco. She pushed him off her and called police, Panco said. Banks was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
ASSAULT
• Centralia police called to a report of a fight about 10:20 p.m. last night at the 1200 block of Windsor Avenue arrested a belligerent 19-year-old Centralia man for being a minor consuming alcohol. According to the Centralia Police Department, as an officer was transporting Emmanuel Martinez to jail, Martinez made threats to kill the officer and his family. Martinez was subsequently booked for felony harassment, according to Officer John Panco.
• A 41-year-old Onalaska man was arrested last night for unlawful imprisonment after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and either held or locked her into a bathroom at an Onalaska residence. Deputies who went to the 100 block of Fickett Road found Owen J. Fickett uncooperative and used a Taser on Fickett, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Fickett was booked into the Lewis County Jail for unlawful imprisonment and referred for potential charges of resisting arrest and fourth-degree assault domestic violence, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• Chehalis police arrested a 38-year-old Chehalis resident yesterday for second-degree assault in connection with an incident last week in which a pedestrian said he was attacked by the driver of a red Jeep behind the Kit Carson restaurant and Relax Inn on Southwest Interstate Avenue. Michael A. Mitchell, 38, was booked into the Lewis County Jail yesterday evening, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Police had been called about 9 p.m. on July 20 to a report of a fight and found an injured 46-year-old Toledo man. He told officers a driver yelled at him and as he approached the Jeep, the driver attacked him, police reported at the time. Mitchell is not being charged, pending further investigation.
FRAUD
• Centralia police were called yesterday by a woman who reported someone used her bank account information to join an online dating website.
MISCHIEF
• Police were called yesterday morning to the 1200 block of Logan Street to a complaint that sometime during the night an unknown person pruned branches off a tree. It has happened three times, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter