DRUGS
• The sheriff’s office arrested a 44-year-old man they describe as a mid-level heroin dealer late yesterday afternoon in Centralia. Jerry D. Clark was picked up at his home about 5 p.m. on the 500 block of South Pearl Street, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When he and his back pack were searched, about $220 in $20 bills was found, as well as some suspected heroin, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. Brown said this morning that Clark came to their attention in early August and twice during that month, members of the sheriff’s office conducted so-called controlled buys of heroin from Clark. The total amount of the drug purchased and seized was just under one ounce, according to Brown. Clark was booked into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of delivery of heroin and one count of possession of heroin, Brown said.
THEFT
• Centralia police took a report yesterday that someone had broken into a vacant home on the 200 block of South Silver Street sometime during the previous week. Officer Gary Byrnes said nothing was taken but he believed a trespasser left a mattress inside.
• A car reported stolen last Wednesday was found yesterday abandoned in a parking lot on the 600 block of West Main Street in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department .
• Centralia police were called to the 900 block of South Schueber Road about 7:30 p.m. yesterday about money stolen from a purse.
VANDALISM
• Police took a report yesterday morning at Centralia High School that a male threw something at a parked bus after hours breaking a window.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter