ASSAULT
• A 69-year-old Curtis resident was jailed after he reportedly mistook a neighbor’s grown daughter for a poacher and ordered her to the ground at gun point last night. Gary O. Watson was arrested for first-degree assault after the incident near her parent’s home on the 1000 block of Wildwood Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived about 9:40 p.m. and were told by the 27-year-old woman she was on the roadway when Watson pointed his gun at her, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said this morning. Watson said he had fired a warning shot but after he realized who she was, he let her go, according to Brown. Watson said he was told earlier there was a suspicious vehicle and then saw a gray car pull into a driveway across the road and thought it was poachers, Brown said. It was her parent’s driveway she had pulled into, and then quickly backed out after she heard a gunshot, Brown said. Her parents hurried out to help her, Brown said. The case was also referred for a possible charge of reckless endangerment for pointing a loaded pistol at a person, according to Brown.
• Police are investigating after a man in his early 40s was stabbed early Saturday in north Centralia. Officers were called to Providence Centralia Hospital about 7 a.m. where the man was being treated for a non-life threatening wound on his forearm, according to the Centralia Police Department. They were told it involved a relative and happened at an apartment on the 1800 block of North Pearl Street but when officers went there, the suspect was gone, according to police.
• A 23-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for third-degree assault after he allegedly spit on a police officer early Sunday morning. Officers were called about 1 a.m. to the area at Northwest Chehalis and Pacific avenues about someone trying to fight and contacted Pablo A. Ortega, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Ortega reportedly tried to spit on a second officer as well, and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said.
THEFT
• A 29-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal car keys from someone inside a home on the 800 block of South Silver Street in Centralia early this morning. Antone G. Reynolds, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police were called Friday afternoon to a report of a stolen headstone from the cemetery on the 1800 block of Van Wormer Street in Centralia. The grave stone was last seen by the reporting family member in July, according to police. A description of the missing memorial was not available.
• Two people were arrested for second-degree burglary on Friday morning at the 500 block of Hunt Street in Centralia. Alejandro S. Escamilla, 39, and Mindi L. Morgan, both described as transient, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a report of carved ivory pieces stolen from a business on the 100 block of North Tower Avenue on Thursday afternoon.
• A 31-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested for misdemeanor theft on Wednesday after allegedly stealing $500 from her employer on the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Molly Romero was arrested and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that more than $7,000 of valuables, including jewelry, a camera and currency, were stolen from a residence on the 400 block of Hemenway Road in Winlock last week. The victim told a deputy she arrived home after being in the hospital and discovered someone had gone into her home sometime between last Monday and Wednesday, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A checkbook was stolen from a home on the 200 block of Macomber Road in Chehalis after someone got inside through an unlocked window, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. Also missing were a weed eater and a chainsaw from the garage, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A vehicle reported stolen from its garage late Sunday afternoon on Southwest First Street in Chehalis was found soon after down the block, undamaged, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 6 o’clock this morning about a car prowl on Southwest McFadden Avenue in Chehalis. They were told someone got inside the trunk and stole some waders, according to police.
• A bag containing financial papers was reported stolen from a vehicle on the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia on Thursday morning. A window had been smashed out, according to police.
DRUGS
• A 20-year-old Centralia woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after an officer recognized her riding her bicycle on early Sunday morning in Southwest William Avenue in Chehalis and contacted her because she had outstanding warrants. Darcie N. Negrete was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Chehalis police.
• Thirty-four-year-old Benjamin G. Cypher was arrested for possession of methamphetamine on Friday by Morton police.
WRECKS
• Police and aid were called about 11:20 a.m. yesterday to the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia where a pickup truck drove into a creek. The driver had left before they arrived, according to police.
• Police were called about 11:40 p.m. on Friday to a hit and run collision on the 600 block of North Pearl Street where the suspect’s vehicle became inoperable and he fled the scene on foot.
• A 25-year-old man was hospitalized after his car hit some ice, then an embankment and rolled onto its roof early Saturday morning near the 2800 block of Centralia-Alpha Road in Onalaska, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Pontiac Grand Am was totaled after the approximately 3:45 a.m. wreck, according to the sheriff’s office.
POACHING
• Fish and Wildlife Officer James Symspon is “real hopeful” he’ll come across the subject who with a single rifle shot took down a too-young elk in town in Packwood last Monday. It happened in a no shooting zone, Officer Sympson said. He was called about 1:30 p.m. and the animal he called a two-by-two was dead in the yard of a home whose residents were away, he said this weekend. A witness saw him do and said, “Hey you can’t do that,” Sympson said. And the shooter told him, “If you help me get it outa here, I’ll split the elk with ya,” he said. The witness told him no way and said he was calling the cops, Sympson said. The elk, dropped just off U.S. Highway 12 on Snyder Road, was estimated to be about three years old and some 400 pounds, he said. The bull was given to charity. Elk season – but not inside Packwood – opened Nov. 5 and ends tomorrow, according to the officer.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter