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Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Friday, September 2nd, 2016
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Updated at 5:38 p.m.

AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police were called just before 1 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of West Third Street to take a report about the theft of a 1994 Honda Civic. The car is blue with a black hood, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 24-year-old Pe Ell woman was arrested yesterday for possession of a stolen vehicle in connection with a 2000 Dodge Caravan recovered on Monday night at the 100 block of Mauermann Road in Pe Ell. The owner, from Raymond, retrieved the van but the arrest was not made until witnesses were contacted to make a positive identification, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.  Angelina M. Tomburello was contacted yesterday, taken into custody without incident and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sherif’s office.

• Officers called about 2:35 p.m. yesterday about a car being moved from one spot to another at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street and a notebook left inside determined the owner of the notebook was a recent victim of a car theft. Her Honda Civic was recovered in the area with all four tires flattened, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

TWO ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY

• Centralia police arrested two individuals about 10 a.m. yesterday for second-degree burglary in a case associated with the 1200 block of St. Helens Street. Jennifer L. Barber, 40, of Mossyrock, and Stanley A. J. Pesicka, 33, a homeless person, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. The two were caught allegedly taking household items from a home which has been unoccupied for several years.

FRAUD

• An individual called Chehalis police yesterday to report one of her bank cards from her recently stolen wallet in Tumwater was used at the Wal-Mart in Chehalis. Police are following up, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• A 600-watt generator was stolen from bed of a pickup truck parked at the 1100 block of G Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.

TIP THEFT ARREST

• A 42-year-old Chehalis woman contacted about 7 a.m. today at North Pearl Street and Reynolds Avenue was arrested for an outstanding warrant as well as cited for third-degree theft as police identified her as the suspect who early yesterday morning stole approximately $5 from a tip jar at a business on the 1100 block of View Avenue in Centralia. Genaveve R. Webb was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

WALLET STOLEN

• Centralia police were called at 12:10 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of South Tower Avenue where an individual said while she was on her phone, someone stole her wallet which was sitting next to her, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor domestic assault, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, third-degree theft, hit and run, harassment, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 151 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Packwood man given nine plus years for 2013 kidnapping

Thursday, September 1st, 2016
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Zachery H. Bynum talks with his lawyer Jacob Clark after signing sentencing documents in Lewis County Superior Court today.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – After spending more than three years in custody, between jail and the state psychiatric hospital, a Packwood man was sentenced today for events he says he mostly doesn’t recall but a prosecutor called a day of hell for the victim.

Zachery H. Bynum pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, harassment and resisting arrest.

It was July 16, 2013, when Bynum was arrested at gunpoint on U.S. Highway 12 near Kiona Creek Road after an approximately four-mile police pursuit. He had dragged his young woman friend out of the Glenoma grocery store and forced her to drive toward Randle.

“She was the one who went through this,” Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead said of the then-22-year-old Morton woman. “She’s the one who had a knife held to her throat.”

Bynum, then 41 years old and living mostly in the woods, was suspected to suffer from severe mental issues from the start.

The allegations included Bynum first forcing the young woman up a logging road where he threatened her with a machete.

Defense attorney Jacob Clark today told the judge of a 10-minute evaluation by personnel from Western State Hospital that initially found Bynum competent and then jail visits in which he would watch his client pull out wads of hair and rip off his own fingernails.

“I’d talk through a little door, he wouldn’t come out from underneath his bed,” he said.

Clark said he asked them to evaluate him as an inpatient, which they did and when he’d come back, spend time in solitary, he would deteriorate again.

“We went through the process I think five times, maybe more,” Clark said.

Clark spoke of a previously undiagnosed brain disease that included cyclical swelling. His client’s current state of mind was the best it’s ever been, he said.

Halstead described the plea agreement in which both attorneys recommended 110 months in prison, as an amount of time sought because of the impact to the victim and also witnesses, including children.

The victim was present in the courtroom and asked Halstead to convey her wish Bynum get the maximum penalty.

Bynum took the judge up on an offer to address the court.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” he said. “I don’t remember what happened mostly, I believe it, but I’m sorry for what happened.”

Judge James Lawler agreed with a sentence of nine years and two months.

“I don’t think adding more time is going to change the impact on Mr. Bynum, given the mental health issues,” Lawler said.

The judge gave him credit for 1,142 days already served and ordered 36 months of supervision upon his release.
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For background, read “Lawyers: Mentally disturbed Packwood man kidnapped woman friend” from Thursday July 18, 2013, here

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Thursday, September 1st, 2016
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Updated at 4:02 p.m.

AUTO THEFT

• Chehalis police were called about 4:15 a.m. by an individual who said he discovered his car had been moved from where he had parked it on the west side of the street at the 100 block of Southeast Washington Avenue to the east side. A subwoofer was missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called at 2:45 a.m. today within moments of a black 1995 Honda Civic being stolen from the 500 block of Southwest William Avenue. It has a license plate reading AXH 7724, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A vehicle stolen in Chehalis was recovered yesterday morning at the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia, during the course of another vehicle theft investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BAD BILL

• Police were called yesterday by a business at the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia regarding the discovery it had accepted a counterfeit $100 bill.

VANDALISM

• Police were called yesterday about a window on a vehicle broken overnight at the 700 block of West Second Street in Centralia.

LSD AND MANY POT PLANTS

• A 44-year-old Centralia man was charged yesterday with four felonies after an off-duty Centralia police officer told law enforcement of marijuana being grown behind a house on Maple Valley Drive, and detectives spoke with three teenagers there who said they’d given him money to buy them marijuana oil and marijuana bud. A search of the home turned up 25 stamps of LSD inside a freezer, 39 marijuana plants in the basement and a loaded revolver in a closet, according to court documents. Richard K. Kane was arrested on Tuesday and brought before a judge yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. Court papers say when drug detectives first asked Kane if he had authorization to grow the marijuana which could be seen in the back of the residence, he produced a medical authorization and said he didn’t mind showing them his eight plants. There were 10 with trunks as thick as two inches in diameter, prosecutors allege. Kane was charged with possession of a controlled substance, manufacture of marijuana, distribution of marijuana to a person under age 18 and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke indicated Kane collected social security disability payments and qualified for a court appointed lawyer. His bail was set at $25,000 and his arraignment scheduled for today.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Centralia police are referring for criminal charges a case of a 15-year-old driver who allegedly struck a bicyclist at the 2500 block of North Pearl Street and left the scene yesterday. Officers responding to the approximately 6 p.m. call note the injuries were minor.

• A 56-year-old Vader resident was one of two people injured when the driver of a Honda Accord ran a red light in Longview late yesterday afternoon at state Route 432 and Washington Way, according to the Washington State Patrol. The Honda struck Glenn R. Wilburn’s Jeep Cherokee and spun off before hitting a log truck, according to the state patrol. Wilburn was not wearing a seat belt, the investigating trooper reports. He and the Honda driver, 51-year-old Louis Z. First, from Tacoma, were both transported to PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, violation no contact order, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, third-degree theft, vandalism, harassment, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, child alone in a parked car, request a woman with suitcases in front of  store for up to three days be asked to move along … and more among 157 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Prison for two more participants in Centralia drug-related robbery

Wednesday, August 31st, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The third of four suspects was sentenced today for a July incident which authorities alleged involved a ruse to obtain heroin that resulted in a struggle inside a car with bear spray and a box cutter in Centralia.

Jon Parker, 32, pleaded guilty this morning in Lewis County Superior Court to conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery. Judge Richard Brosey followed the agreed recommendation that came out of a plea agreement and gave him one year and one day in prison.

Parker chose not to make a statement on his own behalf.

He, Andrea Parker, 34, of Chehalis; Robert Plasencia, 29, of Napavine; and Kiana J. DeLaRosa, 18, of Chehalis, were all arrested after the early morning July 30 events at the 1600 block of North Scheuber Road.

Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Paul Masiello said essentially the plan was already in place when the Parkers arrived. DeLaRosa had asked her friend to get her some heroin, saying she was drug sick, he said.

Court documents describe that when the two victims arrived, DeLaRosa began saying they’d stolen $100 from her, and then a purse and a backpack were taken from them.

DeLaRosa pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree robbery but her sentencing has not yet taken place.

Andrea Parker on Monday pleaded guilty to the same offense as Jon Parker – conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery – but also to four other cases from this year, involving drug possession as well as forgery and second-degree identity theft. She was given 50 months in prison.

Plasencia got 22 months when he was sentenced early last week for second-degree robbery.

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For background, read “Bear spray, box cutter and heroin” from Friday August 12, 2016, here

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
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SHERIFF’S OFFICE SEEKING CHEHALIS MAN FOR ASSAULT, THEFT

• Deputies are looking for a 34-year-old Chehalis man who allegedly assaulted his former significant other at the 200 block of Roe Road in Winlock yesterday, and fled with her .22 rifle. Deputies responded about 3 p.m., searched and could not find him, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They learned later he returned, broke a window and stole a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am, sheriff’s Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. The car was subsequently located at the 400 block of state Route 506 and a K-9 track was conducted but was unsuccessful, Breen said. A case for fourth-degree domestic assault, theft of a firearm, theft of a motor vehicle and first-degree burglary is being sent to prosecutors to review for charges against Adam C. Sullivan, according to the sheriff’ office.

AUTO THEFT

• A black 1997 Honda Civic was taken sometime during the night from the 1100 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 7:20 a.m. today. It has a license plate reading 174 ZSQ, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called just before 7 a.m. today about a beige 1988 Honda Accord stolen during the night from the 300 block of Southwest Third Street. It has a license plate reading ALL 4987, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Centralia police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday about a 2006 Pontiac stolen from the 600 block of H Street. The car was recovered later in the night by the Washington State Patrol, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A deputy responded just before 11 a.m. yesterday to the 300 block of Foster Creek Road in Toledo where a car had been stolen from a field sometime since 3 a.m. on Monday. The 2003 Hyundai Elantra has four doors and is valued at about $2,000, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

FORGERY

• A 29-year-old Centralia woman was contacted by police yesterday morning at the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue where she had allegedly used a stolen credit card to get a motel room. The victim was someone she knows, according to the Centralia Police Department. Regina D. Ashley, 29, of Centralia, was arrested for forgery and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

SUPER SHOPLIFTING

• Centralia police responding to an approximately 10:50 a.m. call yesterday to the 100 block of West High Street arrested two individuals for organized retail theft. Booked into the Lewis County Jail were Cleo R. Palmer, 44, of Seattle, and Juanquita A. Knox, 44, of Tacoma, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called about 2:25 a.m. for a car prowl at the 1700 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue. Missing is a Smith and Wesson pistol, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

HOSPITAL ISSUES

• Bryan J. Hill, 24, of Chehalis, was arrested about 7:45 p.m. yesterday for interfering with a health care facility and third-degree malicious mischief at the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Officers were called about 8:30 p.m. yesterday to the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia to take a report of a patient striking a health care provider.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, third-degree theft; responses for alarm, dispute, third-degree theft, misdemeanor assault, graffiti to a building, suicidal person, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, barking neighbor dog … and more among 148 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Top ranking deputy to lead Evergreen college’s police force

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
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Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Stacy Brown is resigning to take a new job.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office’s chief civil deputy is moving up, taking a position as chief of police services at Evergreen State College.

Chief Deputy Stacy Brown came to the sheriff’s office just over 20 years ago, working as a patrol deputy, a detective for five years with a specialty in sex crimes and child abuse, a sergeant overseeing the detective division and more.

Since 2009, Brown has been responsible for the special services bureau, and is part of the sheriff’s command staff.

Next, Brown will lead a department with nine commissioned law enforcement officers at Evergreen, a 1,000-acre campus in Olympia with more than 4,000 students.

The announcement was made yesterday. Her last day is Sept. 12.

“It is bittersweet, I will miss everyone here so much,” Brown said. “Lewis County feels like a second home.”

Brown, who resides in Thurston County, said she’s looking forward to working with a great new team.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Evergreen in 2006, while working full time, so she already has an idea of what the culture is like, she said.

Police Services at Evergreen has its own dispatch center and Brown will also oversee campus parking services, with several employees.

Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza asked his employees yesterday to join him in congratulating Brown and thanking her for her dedicated service.

“Chief Brown has done an excellent job in a myriad of positions during her tenure with our office, and has led our special services bureau with pride, professionalism, and dedication,” Snaza stated in an email message.

The departure of the top-ranking female deputy leaves the sheriff’s office with no female deputies. Until Deputy Sue Shannon left last year after more than 20 years as a patrol deputy, the two women were the only commissioned law enforcement officers in the organization.

The now-46-year-old started her career in public safety as a dispatcher for the Washington State Patrol. She hired on at the sheriff’s office in May 1996 and has worked for three sheriffs.

In her current position, which she is leaving behind, she has
a wide range of duties, conducted along the 13 staff members she supervises.

The special services bureau includes the sheriff’s office’s records division, the property and evidence division and the civil division.

“We’re responsible for all the evictions in the county and all the civil processes,” Brown said. “Like writs of execution, when someone owes money and someone can go after real or personal property.”

Brown and her people do the work involved in satisfying court judgements, whether trying to obtain a child to return to the rightful parent, or seizing property and holding sheriff’s auctions. They also process gun permits and handle fingerprinting.

Perhaps her best-recognized role has been public information officer for the past nine years, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office.

Brown said today she had thought she would retire from the sheriff’s office, but she’s very excited about the next step in her career.

“I just hope people understand how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to serve the community, from the bottom of my heart,” she said.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
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Updated at 12:39 p.m.

CHURCH VICTIMIZED BY THEFT

• A 34-foot travel trailer donated for a church’s use vanished from its parking lot early yesterday at the 200 block of U.S. Highway 12 south of Chehalis. An unknown person or persons removed the 1994 Carli sometime between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The value is listed at approximately $8,000, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Someone kicked in a door to a garage-shop of a church on the 2500 block of South Market Boulevard and stole a Stihl gas operated weed eater, according to a report made to Chehalis police just before 11 a.m. yesterday.

AUTO THEFT

• Chehalis police were called about 2:15 p.m. yesterday following the discovery a Honda Civic was missing from a parking lot on Hampe Way and then located the car around 6 p.m. at the 600 block of Southeast Dobson Court. Its stereo, speaker and amplifier had been removed, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

THEFT AT WORK SITE

• Chehalis police were called just before 8 a.m. yesterday to a job site at the 2500 block of North National Avenue where four pumps were stolen over the weekend. The loss is $4,000, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Two of them were silver and red Honda pumps and the other two were two-inch blue colored pumps, according to police.

FRAUD

• An Oregon resident called Chehalis police yesterday afternoon to report their bank card was used at Walgreens on Northwest Louisiana Avenue to purchase a gift card for more than $300. An officer learned a similar transaction also took place in Tumwater, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DISORDERLY

• Michael A. Kellogg, 45 of Centralia, was arrested about 12:10 a.m. today for interfering with a health care facility at the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• Centralia police arrested a 30-year-old Chehalis resident for possession of methamphetamine after contact with him about 10:15 p.m. yesterday at the 200 block of Jackson Street. Christopher D. Buck was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 24-year-old Chehalis man was arrested just before 11 a.m. yesterday after contact with an officer at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Matthew M Morris was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Two young people were injured when their car collided with the center barrier then rolled coming to rest on the right hand shoulder, on its top, last night along southbound Interstate 5 near the Winlock-Toledo interchange. Carlos Y. Batista and Martelli L. White, both 19 years old and from Lacey, were transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers responding about 11:15 p.m. noted the 1997 Toyota Celica was totaled. Batista was allegedly traveling too fast and was arrested for second-degree negligent driving, according to the state patrol.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, probation violation, third-degree theft, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, third-degree malicious mischief, misdemeanor domestic assault; responses for alarm, dispute, harassment, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more among 180 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.