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THEFT, THEFT AND MORE THEFT

• A 32-year-old Centralia man was arrested near Interstate 5 and milepost 63 shortly after Centralia police spread the word of a vehicle stolen from the 400 block of Yew Street in Centralia yesterday, according to police. Officers were called just before 4 p.m. and it wasn’t long before a Vader police officer spotted the missing vehicle traveling southbound on the freeway near milepost 69, according to the Centralia Police Department. The state patrol and sheriff’s deputies also responded to the off ramp where Stephen A. Dembrowicz was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. He was also allegedly in possession of the victim’s wallet, police reported.

• Police and an extortion victim lured a 26-year-old Tacoma woman to Centralia last night where she was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Officer John Panco said Jillian M. Emrick had claimed she was pregnant and needed money for medical expenses, tires and other things, threatening possible harm to the 41-year-old man, his family and his career. He gave her upwards of $1,000, Panco said. The two only met about four days earlier on an Internet web site, according to Panco. Emrick was arrested at the 600 block of Harrison Avenue around midnight for extortion, according to Panco. “As far as we know, she isn’t pregnant,” Panco said.

• Chehalis police were called about 8:15 a.m. yesterday to an address on Jackson Highway where someone had taken the tire off a trailer, but left it there. Three hours later an officer was called to a business a few blocks away on South Market Boulevard, where someone had cut through a fence to get a car and stolen a wheel and tire, according to Deputy Chief Randy Kaut.

• Chehalis police were summoned to Shop and Kart on North National Avenue yesterday afternoon when a tried to use what turned out to be a counterfeit $50 bill. Police said there was a good chance the woman didn’t know what she had.

ASSAULT

• Centralia police were called just before 6 o’clock this morning to the 500 block of West Main Street where they arrested a 29-year-old Centralia man for unlawful imprisonment and fourth-degree assault – domestic violence. Antone G. Reynolds allegedly assaulted his wife and prevented her from leaving the residence during a dispute. Further details were not readily available.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police took a report yesterday of somebody tagging a garage on Southwest Third Street with green paint.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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