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INDIVIDUAL VICTIMIZED AFTER GIVING FEMALE A LIFT

• Centralia police report this morning that after a motorist gave an unknown female a ride to the area of South Tower Avenue in Centralia last night, he ended up getting his backpack and cell phone stolen. Officers called about 1:40 a.m. were told the female had walked away but returned a short time later with a male and the pair tried pulling the motorist from his car, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim fled his vehicle on foot and when he returned a short time later, the two were gone along with his belongings, according to police.

THEFT OF ELECTRICITY

• Two people who allegedly engaged in bypassing a power meter in order to restore electricity to their residence after the power had been shut off by the light department were cited for defrauding public utilities on Friday. Alexis S. Collins, 40 of Centralia, and Clim G. Grant, 38 of Centralia, were issued a citation in the case associated with an address on the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and then released with a court date, according to the Centralia Police Department.

LOST AND FOUND

• A youth’s electric motorcycle was found abandoned in the 600 block of F Street and yesterday was secured at the Centralia Police Department for safekeeping until the owner claims it.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Centralia police are looking for the driver of a white sport utility vehicle that left the scene after his vehicle hit a male standing near the open door of his own parked vehicle on the 400 block of South Pearl Street last night. Officers called just before 10 p.m. report the victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called just before 6 p.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of Johnson Road where a pair of 2-year-old girls were found alone and just about to cross the street. The woman who was supposed to be watching the children, Rebecca A. Hipps, 37 of Centralia, was cited or reckless endangerment and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
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CORRECTION: This post has been updated to reflect that it was two  children not one child that wandered away from Johnson Road.

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THEFT, THEFT, THEFT

• Several storage units were broken into at the 800 block of North Tower Avenue and an unknown quantity of items were taken, according to a report made to the Centralia Police Department about 7:45 p.m. yesterday. This case is under investigation, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called yesterday evening about a welder stolen earlier in the day from a business at the 1000 block of Northwest Maryland Avenue. It is a Hobart Stickmate LX235, valued at $350, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The suspect is an older man driving a dark blue mini van, according to police.

• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon about the theft of a $2,500 log splitter from a covered storage area at the 100 block of Meade Hill Road in Glenoma sometime since Saturday.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a deputy took a report of a burglary at the 400 block of Short Road near Morton in which heavy duty padlocks, chain and a door to a shop were damaged sometime in the two weeks previous to Wednesday. It was not yet clear what may have been taken, according to the sheriff’s office.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called about 5:40 a.m. yesterday to the 1600 block of North Pearl Street following the discovery that someone entered someone else’s barn and vandalized a motorcycle. The paint was scratched and the tires were punctured, according to the Centralia Police Department.

ASSAULT

• A 36-year-old Chehalis man was arrested yesterday following an afternoon report a 28-year-old Rochester man and a 54-year-old Centralia woman were assaulted at the 100 block of Meier Road south of Chehalis. The male victim had an injury to his eye and nose and the female an injury to her forearm, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victims said that during the assault, Gregory J. Perry had also restricted their breathing, according to the sheriff’s office Perry was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault but prosecutors moved the case to Lewis County District Court instead for consideration of misdemeanor assault, according to authorities.

• Centralia police reported yesterday they are investigating a report of an assault on a child associated with the 1000 block of North Pearl Street. They learned of the incident about 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A boy was booked into Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center following a report about 11:35 a.m. on Wednesday of an assault on a school bus in a case associated with an address at Seward Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police reported yesterday they were called to take a report from Green Hill School the day before about an altercation on May 9 in which an 18-year-old student-inmate allegedly struck a staff member on the head. The case will be referred to prosecutors, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

WARNING

• Chehalis police were called about 11:30 a.m. yesterday on a request to remove a homeless female and her grocery cart of belongings from in front of a place at the 500 block of North Market Boulevard. An officer was called about 1:45 p.m. to remove a female and her belongings “occupying” a shelter on Northeast Division Street. She was warned, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• An incident of road rage was reported late yesterday afternoon in which an individual followed the victim, struck the back of her vehicle with the front of his and attempted to throw a can of soda into her open sunroof, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police are attempting to positively identify the suspect in the episode that occurred along the 600 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia around 4:40 p.m. The case is under investigation.

• Centralia police investigated a minor injury collision involving a log truck and three passenger vehicles at the 900 block of Harrison Avenue shortly before 7:15 a.m. yesterday. The at-fault driver of a passenger vehicle was issued a notice of infraction, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 39-year-old woman was injured when the car in which she was a passenger was struck by another car on southbound Interstate 5 just before 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Troopers called to the area near milepost 74 about a mile south of Chehalis report a 25-year-old Wyoming man driving a Subaru Forester began to change lanes and hit a Kia Optima, according to the Washington State Patrol. Mazhari Bahareh, of Auburn, was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the state patrol.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, trespassing, misdemeanor assault, failure to obey police officer, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, possession of liquor by minor; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, vehicle collision, hit and run, third-degree theft, disorderly person, fourth-degree assault, suspicious circumstances, request for contact from a parent whose mouthy 15-year-old daughter got a belly-button piercing without permission … and more among 334 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 48-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.