THEFT
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office was called about 1:40 p.m. yesterday by a man who said his 1996 Honda Accord had been stolen from 400 block of Young Road near Mossyrock. The stolen car was found about a half hour later by a sheriff’s detective, being driven by a 14-year-old boy along the 1400 block of state Route 122, according to the sheriff’s office. The teenager, who is a friend of one of the victim’s children, was arrested and booked for theft of a vehicle into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning.
• Centralia police were contacted yesterday by a small store on the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue, La Perla, about a possible theft, with a loss of more than $2,500. The case is under investigation.
• Police took a report yesterday morning that someone stole a laptop computer, a cell phone and a leather coat from an apartment on the 1400 block of Johnson Road in Centralia.
DRUGS
• A 48-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine about 1:30 a.m. today at the southbound freeway off ramp to Mellen Street in Centralia, according to police. Veronica L. Valderrama was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Businesses along West Main Street in Centralia continued to make reports yesterday of finding gang graffiti left on their exteriors, according to police. That brings to seven or eight the number of victims in the area since Sunday morning, police Sgt. Kurt Reichert said.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter