THEFT
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is interested in hearing from anyone who knows something about a $43,000 Kubota excavator stolen sometime between Thursday evening and Friday morning from Country Tractor on the 1600 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. The tractor had a 24-inch bucket attached. Detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said it appeared someone drove it to the south end of a nearby lot and loaded it onto a trailer.
• Centralia police are investigating a situation at the Lewis County Transfer Station on the 1400 block of South Tower Avenue in which recycled materials were diverted and sold. Further details about the theft are not available.
• A small safe that contained vitamins was reported stolen yesterday from the 500 block of South Silver Street in Centralia, according to police.
• Centralia police were called yesterday about unauthorized charges made on a credit card in connection with an address on Oxford Avenue.
• Police were called yesterday morning abut the theft of mail from the 300 block of South Street in Centralia.
• Centralia police were called last night about the theft of a purse from a vehicle at the 900 block of South Schueber Road that had occurred several days earlier.
VANDALISM
• Somebody threw an onion at a house on the 400 block of Yew Street in Centralia breaking a window, according to a report made to the Centralia Police Department yesterday afternoon.
• Chehalis police were called yesterday about four windows being broken at a vacant business on Northwest Prindle Street sometime since Saturday.
DRUGS
• A 51-year-old woman checking in as a new resident at a drug rehabilitation facility on Southeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis was arrested yesterday for possession of drugs. Angeline R. Reyes, of Tacoma, was booked into the Lewis County Jail in connection with a small tin-foil packet of suspected heroin and a syringe found, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 33-year-old Centralia man was arrested for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act after he was stopped for driving without headlights about 7 p.m. yesterday on the 1400 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. Trevor L. Tompkins was found to be driving with a suspended license and a subsequent search of his vehicle turned up suspect meth, digital scales and about three grams of suspected marijuana, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Tompkins was booked for possession of drugs, paraphernalia and also for the suspended license, according to the sheriff’s office. The Lewis County Prosecutors Office declined to charge Tompkins for the violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and moved his case to Lewis County District Court.
WRECKS
• A 20-year-old woman was arrested for driving under the influence after someone reported an erratically driven vehicle about 11 p.m. last night on the 800 block of Boistfort Road which then ran off the road, down an embankment, through a yard and into a tree. Melinda M. Henderson, of Canby, Ore., was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Her passenger was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital.
• Aid and a deputy were called about 10 p.m. yesterday after a Jeep Cherokee was discovered in a ditch outside Centralia with a 67-year-old woman stuck inside. The driver, from Centralia, was disoriented and the wreck may have been related to a medical issue, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The accident, on the 400 block of Jones Road, off Little Hanaford Road, was estimated to have occurred about 7 p.m., the sheriff’s office said. Responders were able to access the patient from the rear hatch and passenger door, according to Riverside Fire Authority. She was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital.
CAMPERS LOSE MOTOR HOME TO FIRE
• Firefighters were called about 10 p.m. on Sunday night to the Kosmos Boat Launch near Glenoma where a motor home caught fire. A pair of female campers from Washougal were at a campfire and saw flames in the 40-foot Winnebago, but couldn’t get a cell phone signal to call 911, according to Fire Investigator Ted McCarty. By the time Lewis County Fire District 18 arrived, it had burned itself down to the frame, McCarty said. The cause is unknown, he said. “There was not a lot left to look at,” McCarty said.
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CORRECTION: The above item was updated to reflect the correct spelling of “Kosmos”.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter