Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

December 9th, 2016
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MORE THAN A DOZEN STORAGE UNITS BURGLED

• Police were called about 11:30 p.m. yesterday for a burglary at a storage facility on the 600 block of North Gold Street in Centralia in which 18 units were broken into. Someone jumped a fence to get inside, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 17-year-old boy was arrested about 11:35 p.m. yesterday yesterday at the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia for allegedly driving under the influence of marijuana. The teen was also arrested for possession of marijuana and then booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police responded to an approximately 10:20 p.m. report of a hit and run yesterday at Maple Street and Tower Avenue involving a green pickup truck.  Officers later found and impounded the truck, according to the Centralia Police Department. The investigation is ongoing, according to police..

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, disorderly conduct, protection order violation, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence, misdemeanor domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, harassment, malicious mischief, suspicious circumstances, car doing doughnuts in parking lot, collision on city street, county road, state highway … and more among 184 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

News brief: Shallow quake shakes East Lewis County

December 9th, 2016
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The orange circles to the right of the north end of Spirit Lake mark the location. / Image from Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

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By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A mild earthquake was recorded overnight south of Randle and Glenoma.

The 3.2 magnitude quake was measured by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network as three miles deep.

It occurred at 1:50 a.m. and was followed five minutes later with a 2.0 quake, according to PNSN.

The Lewis County 911 communications center indicated just after 2 o’clock this morning there were no reports of damage.

At least three people shared on Lewis County Sirens Facebook they felt shaking and three citizen responses were received by the “Did You Feel It?” function of PNSN’s web site.

Bill Calkin was awake in his recliner in Randle when it happened, causing him to think a big tree must have come down on his property.

“It only lasted for a few seconds,” Calkin stated in a message this morning. “Just a low rumble and then a thug like jolt.”

PNSN described the location as 21 miles southeast of Morton. Lewis County 911 described it as 10 miles northeast of Mount St. Helens.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

December 8th, 2016
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BAD CUSTOMERS

• Police were called about 12:20 p.m. yesterday to the hotel at the 700 block of Northwest Liberty Place where guests from one room took the television, coffee maker and a clothes iron but left behind a “glass smoking device,” according to the Chehalis Police Department. Officers are investigating.

MISSING GREENERY

• Centralia police were called about 9:25 a.m. yesterday to take a report that potted plants had been stolen from in front of a building at the 200 block of South Tower Avenue.

FOUND GREENERY

• Chehalis police were called to the school on the 300 block of Southwest 16th Street about 1 p.m. yesterday after personnel found a marijuana cigarette in a 15-year-old boy’s backpack. The case is being forwarded to prosecutors for charging, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police took a report about 11:25 a.m. yesterday of graffiti painted on a fence at the 500 block of West Pine Street. An officer returned after another call at 8:45 p.m. about multiple fences in the same area getting hit with graffiti, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

• A Puyallup resident pleaded not guilty yesterday following allegations of sexual abuse spanning a decade of a female relative who is eight years younger than him, taking place in part in Lewis County. David A. Carosa, now 25, appeared with his lawyer before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court following an investigation by the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office that began in October, about two weeks after the most recent alleged incident. He is charged with first-degree incest as well as rape of a child in the first, second and third degree. Judge James Lawler quashed the $100,000 arrest warrant and allowed his release on a $20,000 unsecured bond. His trial was set for the week of Feb. 27.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, reckless driving, failure to register motor vehicle after sale, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, animal cruelty, suspicious circumstances, collision off city street … and more among 137 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

East Lewis County: Missing, upwards of $20,000 in hundreds

December 8th, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A 63-year-old woman told a deputy yesterday she lost a satchel filled with thousands of dollars cash and she was certain it disappeared in Randle.

The bag contained $15,000 to $20,000 in U.S. currency, mostly in $100 bills, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said she lives in Wapato but owns rental property on the 600 block of Silverbrook Road in Randle.

She said she recalled it being in the back of her car and the car being left unlocked while there between Oct. 20 and 31, Breen said.

The woman didn’t realize it was gone until a week or so after returning to Eastern Washington and spent a couple more weeks digging around looking for it, Breen said.

Breen said he didn’t know why she had been carrying so much cash with her.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

December 7th, 2016
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BREAK-IN

• A 41-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday for first-degree burglary in connection with a call just after 8 a.m. to the 1400 block of Lum Road in Centralia. Kimberly R. Iverson, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree burglary and possession of methamphetamine as she allegedly entered a shed, even though another person told her nobody was allowed in the shed, only under the carport because it was so cold outside, according to charging documents.

• Police were called about a suspected attempted burglary just after 11 a.m. yesterday at the 700 block of South Gold Street in Centralia. It appears someone attempted to force a lock, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 28-year-old Centralia resident was arrested just after 6 p.m. yesterday at the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue for an outstanding warrant and possession of heroin. Christopher J. Mott was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.  The warrant was for failing to appear when summonsed to Lewis County Superior Court on a charge of first-degree theft for allegedly grabbing $30 cash from the hand of a high school friend when they ran in to each other in downtown Centralia on Aug. 24, according to charging documents.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police took a report about 12:40 p.m. yesterday for damage to a breaker box at a home on the 1500 block of Delaware Avenue.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, hit and run, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more among 141 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

News brief: Fatality on state Route 507 blamed on texting

December 7th, 2016
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Roadway is closed at 20200 block of state Route 507 for investigation. / Courtesy photo by Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A 24-year-old Chehalis man was texting when his car left the roadway and struck a tree in South Thurston County yesterday evening.

Daniel M. Aker died at the scene, according to the the Washington State Patrol.

Troopers called just before 6 p.m. to state Route 507 about three-quarters of a mile south of Bucoda found Aker’s Honda Civic was totaled, according to the state patrol.

The highway was shut down until just before 10 p.m.

The investigating trooper determined Aker was traveling northbound and texting when his car crossed over the oncoming lane and hit a tree on its driver’s side.

Centralia: Theft of wallet leads to robbery charge

December 6th, 2016
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Miguel V. Martinez, in red, confers with temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke in Lewis County Superior Court.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A 20-year-old Centralia resident was ordered held on $250,000 bail for a nighttime incident a week ago in which he allegedly took off with an acquaintance’s wallet containing $300.

The victim told police that just about the time he apprehended the 20-year-old in the parking lot of a bank, a white male who got out of a green Dodge Durango pepper sprayed him in the face and hit him at least once with a handgun.

Miguel V. Martinez, 20, was charged yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court with first-degree robbery and then also possession of meth and heroin based on what police turned up when he was arrested on Saturday at the Motel 6 in Centralia.

According to the victim, it all began when Martinez called him wanting a ride to Rochester and the two met up at the parking lot of Safeway on Harrison Avenue in Centralia about 11 p.m. on Nov. 28.

The victim told police they sat in the parking lot  talking for some period of time. Charging documents go on to give the victim’s account of events:

At some point, he went inside Safeway to get a drink and when he returned to his car, he set his wallet on the center console. At some point, Martinez allegedly grabbed the wallet, got out of the car and ran off.

The victim, Ryan Olson, grabbed some pepper spray, chased Martinez and tried unsuccessfully to spray him. Olson said he caught Martinez in the Columbia Bank parking lot and they were about to start walking back to the car when a Dodge Durango pulled up.

A white male gets out, approaches them and lifts the front of his shirt exposing what looks to be the handle of a handgun, and says, “Let him go, I have a gun.”

Olson refuses because Martinez still has his wallet and a struggle ensues between the three men.

The victim, Olson, said the unidentified white male hits him with the gun, takes his pepper spray and sprays him.

Martinez and the white male leave in the Durango, which is being driven by a female.

Centralia police responding to the approximately 2:15 a.m. call to Safeway’s gas station on Belmont Avenue find the victim in extreme discomfort and end up interviewing him at the hospital where he was transported for treatment.

Charging documents filed yesterday in Lewis County Superior Court indicate detectives are in the process of identifying the male and female who were involved.

When Martinez was brought before a jude yesterday afternoon, temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke attempted to get a lower amount for his bail.

“I’m very familiar with Mr. Martinez and his family who are in court today,” O’Rourke told the judge. “His family assures me they will keep him home and make sure he gets to court.”

Judge James Lawler went with Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Joel DeFazio’s recommendation of $250,000 bail instead.

Martinez’s arraignment is scheduled for Thursday.
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For background, read “Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup – ARREST MADE IN PEPPER SPRAY ATTACK” from Monday December 5, 2016, here