CENTRALIA ARREST INCLUDES GROUND FIGHT, TASER, BATON AND TWO INJURED
• An attempt to arrest a man last night in Centralia ended with both the 36-year-old man and a police officer going to the hospital. Centralia police responded to a call about a man running back and forth across the train tracks and diving into the bushes in the late evening near the 500 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. The individual, Harvey Maddux, is somebody with a long history of mental instability and drug abuse, and officers get several calls each month because of his erratic behavior and things he’s done, according to Centralia police Officer Chris Fitzgerald. As one officer attempted to handcuff him, Maddux charged another, Officer Ruben Ramirez and struck Ramirez with his fist, according to Fitzgerald. An officer deployed a Taser and Maddux “defeated” the Taser, she said, without elaborating. He was impervious to the Taser, she said. The ensuing struggle involved a ground fight, she said. Officer Phillip Reynolds delivered several blows with his baton to the suspect’s arms, back and “I think he got caught on the head,” Fitzgerald said. One of Reynolds’ baton strikes got Officer Deric Makein the hand as well, she said. Both went to Providence Centralia Hospital where she believed Maddux got some stitches in his head; and Makein’s hand was X-rayed to see if it was broken, according to Fitzgerald. It wasn’t. Maddux, 36, whose hometown was not noted, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault, according to Centralia police.
SUSPECTED THIEF ANSWERS TEXT MESSAGE ON STOLEN CELL PHONE
• A woman exchanged text messages with a suspected thief after her purse containing bank cards and her cell phone were stolen from her vehicle on Saturday night in Centralia leading to an arrest and the recovery of her belongings, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer took a report about 10:20 p.m. about the car prowl and three hours later learned the victim texted her phone and got messages back, according to police. The 15-year-old male – whose name was not released because he’s a juvenile – allegedly worked out a deal to return the woman’s items if she paid him money, an amount police did not disclose. Officers coordinated with the woman to make the exchange and the suspect was taken into custody, following a short pursuit, according to police. The teenager was then booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for trafficking stolen property, according to police.
SUSPECT CAUGHT IN CLOSET OF SOMEBODY ELSE’S APARTMENT
• Centralia police responded to a call about a burglary on Friday evening on the 400 block of South Cedar Street and discovered somebody had been going through a crawl space in the attic and breaking through fire walls to burglarize apartments, according to the Centralia Police Department. Twenty-nine year old Rachel L. Grider, of Centralia, was found hiding in a closet of one apartment and booked for second-degree burglary into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
ONALASKA RESIDENT PURSUES BURGLARY SUSPECTS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a call on Saturday afternoon about a burglary to an Onalaska-area home and before they could arrive, were called again and told one of the victims was behind the suspect’s vehicle. Deputies and troopers caught up to the suspect’s broken down vehicle on U.S. Highway 12 in Silver Creek and arrested the pair, sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said this morning. The victim was able to identify their valuables – including items such as jewelry, a pellet gun, a laptop computer and electronic movies and games adding up to about $2,700 in value – missing from the home on the 100 block of Harvest Moon Drive, Aust said. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary and second-degree theft were Michael A. Boyer, 27 and Danielle M. Brown, 33, according to Aust. He described them as transients and noted Boyer had a fugitive from justice warrant out of Washington County, Ore. Aust said he wasn’t clear about how and where the victim began trailing the suspected burglars.
MORE THEFTS
• Centralia police took a report of a burglary on Friday afternoon connected with the 1200 block of Mellen Street in which approximately $600 was taken.
• Local police often respond to shoplifting incidents but don’t often describe in their morning summaries to the press what was taken. However, a Centralia police officer noted a female who fled an incident around 2 p.m. Friday at the 100 block of West High Street in Centralia got away with black, tan and lace argyle-patterned matching bra and panties.
• Chehalis police were called about 6:40 p.m. on Saturday about the theft of a blue 1992 Honda.
OTHER STUFF
• Centralia police were called about 12:20 a.m. on Saturday to the 600 block of West Main Street where somebody had slashed tires and “keyed” a vehicle.
• Chehalis police were called about 11 a.m. on Saturday to a report a vehicle ran into a building on the 300 block of South Market Boulevard. Further details weren’t readily available.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter