Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

October 10th, 2016
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Updated at 6:11 p.m.

ASSAULT

• Centralia police called about 2:45 p.m. yesterday to the 1100 block of North Washington Avenue where a 32-year-old woman allegedly threatened two of her roommates with a kitchen knife arrested Amber G. Harper for first-degree assault. The Centralia woman was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was charged today with two counts of second-degree assault, for allegedly raising the knife over her shoulder as she demanded to know where her bottle of whiskey was. She has no previous criminal history, according to prosecutors. Her bail was set at $15,000 when she went before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.

• Centralia police said yesterday morning they were looking for an identified male suspect for second-degree domestic assault following a call just before 8 p.m. on Saturday to the 400 block of Prairie Rose Street where he allegedly struck a woman in the face causing significant injury.

• Centralia police took a report on Saturday afternoon of a sexual assault, allegedly by a person known to the victim. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THREAT

• A 30-year-old man was arrested for domestic harassment this morning after he allegedly threatened to assault an individual. Officers called about 7:15 a.m. today today to the 700 block of South Gold Street cited Mic J. Banks, of Centralia, and then released him pending a court date, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BURGLARY

• Almost $1,300 worth of valuables including a 9 mm handgun, ammunition for it and a samurai sword were stolen in a burglary witnessed by neighbors at the 100 block of Pier Road south of Chehalis just before 2 p.m. on Friday. Deputies were unable to locate a suspect, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Also missing are silver coins, two pocket watches and other jewelry, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Centralia police were called on Friday about a second-degree burglary which involved the theft of cash from a business on the 600 block of South Pearl Street.

AUTO THEFT

• Chehalis police were called just after 12 a.m. today about a silver 2006 Ford Focus that went missing from where it was parked at the 600 block of Southeast Adams Avenue.

THEFT

• Centralia police were called yesterday about 11:45 a.m. to the 1400 block of Lum Road in Centralia where they took a report of the theft of numerous pieces of merchandise. Suspects have not yet been identified, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called to the 10 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue about a suspected internal theft at a business the week before. They are awaiting for further information, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Police were called just before 1 p.m. on Friday to the 600 block of South Tower Avenue to take a report of a female suspected of forging and cashing stolen checks.

VEHICLE PROWL

• An officer was called about 9:45 a.m. on Saturday to the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia regarding tools stolen from a truck.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were summoned at noon on Friday to the 1200 block of Alder Street to take a report of intentional damage to a motel room.

OTHER

• An officer called about 3 p.m. Friday about a male and a female who appeared to be engaging in intimate relations inside a car parked off North National Avenue in Chehalis found that indeed was what was occurring and arrested one of them because of an outstanding warrant, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Someone called 911 just after 6 p.m. on Friday, asking for a phone call from an officer about a Facebook post from a clown advising to watch out for a visit the next day in Adna.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• A 32-year-old driver said he fell asleep after working a graveyard shift before wrecking along the 700 block of West Reynolds Avenue in Centralia yesterday. A deputy called about 1:20 p.m. noted the vehicle traveled about 50 yards along a ditch and struck a utility pole. The driver said that awakened him and he panicked and stomped on the gas, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle then hit a culvert, a ditch and a second culvert before coming to rest in a parking lot, according to the sheriff’s office. Joshua D. Johnson appeared to have minor injuries and declined medical treatment, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. He was issued a citation for second-degree negligent driving, Breen said. The road was shut down while the pole and wires were replaced, Breen said.

• A 15-year-old driver, who along with his 39-year-old passenger was allegedly intoxicated, was arrested after reportedly speeding away following an attempted traffic stop in Chehalis on Saturday. Deputies called about 4 p.m. were told a pickup truck hauling a trailer struck the median on northbound Interstate 5 and exited at LaBree Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy found the vehicle on Bishop Road and pulled up behind, when the vehicle took off but the driver then lost control, coming to a stop, according to the sheriff’s office. The Chehalis boy was arrested for attempting to elude, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. A case was referred to prosecutors against the adult for allegedly being complicit in the intoxication, Breen said.

• A 45-year-old man from Winlock was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after he was hit by a motor home when he stepped out of his vehicle to inspect damage from striking a small deer in Mossyrock. Deputies responding after the approximately 7:35 p.m. accident on Friday at the 500 block of Mossyrock Road East spoke to the driver of the 29-foot motor home who said he didn’t not see that the vehicle was stopped partially in his lane, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim sustained possible internal injuries as well as broken bones in his “extremities,” according to the sheriff’s office.

• Centralia police were called about 4:23 p.m. on Friday for a hit and run accident in which a light pole was struck at the 700 block of North Tower Avenue. The suspect is described as an older man and alcohol is believed to have been involved, according to the Centralia Police Department. The suspect vehicle is a mid 2000s white Ford F 150, which would have a bent front end axle, according to police.

• Centralia police were called about 9:23 a.m. on Friday to Pearl and Cherry streets for a hit and run incident involving a pedestrian. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, reckless endangerment, driving under the influence, no-contact order violation, protection order violation, possession of liquor by a minor; responses for alarm, dispute, trespassing, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, suicidal person, friendly stray dog, third-degree theft, collision on city street … and more among 394 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 72-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Manhunt underway near Chehalis schools

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Wanted: Andrew C. Skyberg

Updated at 2:24 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Three Chehalis schools are in lockdown this morning while police search for a suspect from an incident last week.

Chehalis Police Department spokesperson Linda Bailey said that around 8:36 a.m. today, officers got a report that 36-year-old Andrew C. Skyberg was seen in the area of the 100 block of Southwest Sixth Street.

They, with assistance from other law enforcement agencies are in the area trying to locate him, Bailey said.

St. Joseph School, R.E. Bennett Elementary School and Cascade Elementary School went into lockdown as a precaution, she said.

Skyberg is wanted as the primary suspect in an early morning incident on Friday in which multiple gunshots were fired outside a home following an argument at the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue.

Nobody was injured and police said on Friday afternoon they recovered what they believed to be the handgun used.

Chehalis police at about 12:40 p.m. today said officers were unable to locate Skyberg this morning, but asked for help from the public.

Officers were told this morning he was wearing a brown hoody and blue jeans.

Anyone with information about Skyberg’s location or information about Friday’s incident is asked to call 911 or, to remain anonymous, call the Thurston County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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For background, read “Chehalis: Two arrested, primary suspect outstanding from early morning shooting” from Friday October 7, 2016 at 5:04 p.m., here

Chehalis: Two arrested, primary suspect outstanding from early morning shooting

October 7th, 2016
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Officers collect evidence from outside a home on Southwest William Avenue.

Updated at 5:22 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Police have recovered the handgun they believe was used in this morning’s shooting incident and arrested two people for “aiding and abetting” but are still trying to track down their suspect.

Officers responded to the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue after receiving multiple calls just before 3 a.m. from people hearing four or five gunshots following an argument outside a small house.

Nobody was struck and nobody was hurt but one bullet lodged in the railing along the front porch, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

Department spokesperson Linda Bailey said the individual with the gun was outside when the shots were fired.

Several people reside there, but Bailey said she doesn’t know how many of them were home at the time. The suspect and victim or victims were acquaintances, she said.

Bailey said she doesn’t have information this afternoon about a motive.

Next door neighbor Sharon Edwards said she didn’t know what was going on, but stayed put after hearing gunfire.

“I didn’t get up, I was frozen on the couch,” Edwards said.

When daylight came, she saw detectives outside, placing as many as 10 yellow markers, she said.

Officers recovered only the one round, according to Bailey.

The suspect police are looking for is 36-year-old Andrew C. Skyberg, his whereabouts are unknown, according to the police department.

Bailey said she didn’t know where the .380 handgun was found, but it had recently been stolen in a vehicle prowl.

Arrested today for aiding and abetting and booked into the Lewis County Jail are Bryan K. Butts, 32, from Cinebar and Felicia D. Lane, 28, of Chehalis, according to the police department. Bailey had no specific details about whatever help they are alleged to have provided.

Skyberg is described as a white male with very short hair, 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 175 pounds. He has tattoos on both arms.

Anyone with information about Skyberg’s location or information about this incident is asked to call 911 or, to remain anonymous, call the Thurston County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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For background, read “Argument leads to multiple gunshots in south Chehalis” from Friday October 7, 2016 at 7:26 a.m., here

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Chehalis police prepare to leave the crimes scene on William Avenue this morning.

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DISORDERLY PERSON

• A 33-year-old man who said he was a “psycho” from New York was arrested early this morning for failing to leave a Toledo area store when asked and also for allegedly wiping his nasal discharge on their window. Deputies called about 3:50 a.m. today to the 100 block of Foster Creek Road were told that when a customer tried to get between the man and the clerk, the man tried to stab the customer with a pencil, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The subject fled, there was a short foot chase and then Gary W. Connor, 33, listed as transient, was arrested for first-degree criminal trespassing and third-degree malicious mischief, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.

• A 27-year-old jail inmate who allegedly tampered with the fire suppression sprinkler head inside his cell twice yesterday, flooding a housing unit was additionally booked for second-degree malicious mischief. Wellington M. Waggener, from Centralia, is being held in the Lewis County Jail in Chehalis on an unrelated matte, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The estimated damage amount is $900, according to the sheriff’s office.

MISSING MONEY

• Centralia police were called just after 3 p.m. yesterday to the 1300 block of Alexander Street to take a report of the theft of money.

CLOWN HYSTERIA

• Chehalis police were called by a neighbor on Southwest Third Street at 11:47 a.m. yesterday who said the children at the school were scared and screaming they saw a clown in the alley. The caller didn’t see a clown and a responding officer didn’t see a clown, according to the Chehalis Police Department. R.E. Bennett Elementary School Assistant Principal Rachel Dorsey said she and several adults were on the playground for recess with their kids at that time and knew nothing of it until the officer came to ask about it. He said as he was leaving he’d check around, she said.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, possible attempted sexual assault … and more among 177 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

Argument leads to multiple gunshots in south Chehalis

October 7th, 2016
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Officers collect evidence from outside a small house on Southwest William Avenue.

Updated at 8:30 a.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Several shots were fired following an argument outside a Chehalis residence overnight, drawing officers from multiple agencies to the 600 block of Southwest William Avenue.

Nobody was struck or injured, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

Department spokesperson Linda Bailey reports the masked suspect fled the scene.

Officers responded to several 911 calls around 2:55 a.m. today, in which callers indicated hearing four or five shots, according to Bailey.

Chehalis police were joined by officers from the Centralia Police Department, Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol. They set up containment in the area and brought in a police dog in an attempt to locate the suspect, according to Bailey.

The investigation is ongoing this morning and detectives are following up on several leads.

Bailey said this morning she has no information yet on where any bullets may have landed, but officers are at the scene now working on determining such information.

The police department believes it was not a random act, but that the residents of the home and the shooter are known to each other.

Initial information suggested the person with the gun as a male who left on foot, she said.

“They’re still interviewing to see if they can piece together a description,” she said.

Case closed: Chehalis Main Street shooting ends with prison, jail for married couple

October 6th, 2016
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Hillary Harader, far left, faces Judge Nelson Hunt while her husband, in red, speaks with his attorney.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – With almost two dozen family members, friends, co-workers and even their pastor and employer occupying the row of benches behind them, a Centralia couple pleaded guilty to their roles in an incident which included a bullet ending up lodged in the side of the Dairy Bar on Chehalis’s Main Street.

Both entered into plea deals with the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office.

Matthew W. Harader, 27, admitted he fired a shot toward an occupied pickup truck.

Hillary M. Harader, 23, admitted she subsequently took the gun from her husband and helped destroy it.

The couple went before a judge yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court in connection with the events that occurred around 3:15 a.m. on Aug. 28.

Chehalis police responded to the area of the gas station at the 600 block of Main Street, to a report of a shooting. The clerk said two men and a woman had been inside the store there, although they arrived in separate vehicles, according to court documents. She then saw what looked like one male outside who appeared to fire toward a pickup truck heading westbound, court documents related.

When police spoke to the two men from the truck, they indicated they’d left the store and one of two men there began to yell and chase them, before firing a weapon.

Nobody was injured. Police recovered two .45 caliber casings at the scene.

Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead told the judge his office has not heard back from the victims. He revealed there actually were four people inside the truck.

He said he watched the surveillance video from the Jackpot the following day, and saw of them inside the store, but didn’t see any contact between them.

“Something happened outside,” Halstead said. “We believe words were spoken from the victim towards a female.”

He said obviously it was a spur of the moment crime that occurred, that Matthew Harader was probably high on meth.

Matthew Harader pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault and one count of second-degree assault.

The standard sentencing range for his offenses is between 111 months and 147 months, and Halstead asked for 147.

His lawyer Katherine Gulmert said her client is extremely remorseful

Judge Nelson Hunt agreed to the prison term of twelve years and three months. He said the three years of community custody following release should include a drug treatment program.

When it came time for Hillary Harader to plead guilty to second-degree rendering criminal assistance and tampering with evidence, the judge volunteered he knew her well.

“I’ve known her since she was a child, she was a good friend of my daughter’s,” Hunt said, adding she was also involved in recovery court.

He asked Halstead and her lawyer if either objected to him presiding. They didn’t.

Halstead said when the vehicles left the gas station, Matthew Harader got out of the vehicle he was in and ran back to the car his wife was in, giving her a handgun to dispose of.

Her attorney Robert Brungardt told the judge that his client authorized him to approach prosecutors the very day of her arraignment.

“She knew she had a duty to acknowledge and accept the consequences,” he said.

The two sides recommended to the judge that Hillary Harader serve 60 days, with the option of doing it on electronic home monitoring. And also that $6,000 worth of fines be suspended provided she has no law violations.

Judge Hunt agreed.

He ordered her to report to the Lewis County Jail by Oct. 25, or show evidence she’s on the home monitoring by then.
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For background read “Chehalis shooting: Firearm still missing, one round recovered from Dairy Bar” from Friday September 2, 2016, here

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October 6th, 2016
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Updated at 3:34 p.m.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Two cars were totaled and both drivers injured in a collision yesterday evening on U.S. Highway 12 west of Mossyrock. Troopers called about 7:20 p.m. learned the vehicles had been westbound, when the Honda Civic struck the back of a Ford Focus which was yielding to traffic to make a left turn onto Winston Creek Road. Whitney L. Davis, 19, was issued a citation for speed too fast for conditions, according to the Washington State Patrol. Davis and the other driver, Macie J. Rockwood, 16, were both transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the state patrol. The teens are both Mossyrock residents.

• A 20-year-old driver was issued an infraction for wheels off the roadway after a single-car rollover wreck on North Military Road near Camden Drive in Winlock yesterday. Deputies called about 5:20 p.m. learned the Tenino woman was southbound when she veered, overcorrected and then struck a culvert on the other side of the road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She said she was changing a song on her cell phone, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said. She was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to Lewis County Fire District 15.

• A 26-year-old man from Lacey was arrested after a single-vehicle wreck on U.S. Highway 12 about two miles east of Montesano yesterday morning. Neither he nor his 19-year-old passenger were injured when the westbound Chrysler Caravan left the roadway to the right, hitting a light pole and culvert, according to the Washington State Patrol. However, troopers arriving to the scene after the approximately 6:50 a.m. call found the driver’s clothing was covered in pieces of marijuana, according to the state patrol. Sal Pasanta submitted to field sobriety tests and was arrested for driving under the influence, according to the patrol.

SCHOOL SCARE

• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office was called to Grand Mound Elementary School yesterday after a note was found in the bathroom indicating a bomb was in the school. The sheriff’s office tweeted about 11:40 a.m. that the students were safely evacuated. By about 12:10 p.m., authorities announced classes were resuming, but the investigation continued.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday to the 900 block of Southwest William Avenue to take a report that someone had opened the canopy on a vehicle and removed the temporary license from the window. It occurred sometime on Monday, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

OTHER THEFT

• Police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday regarding the theft of cash from a business on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 46-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when picked up on a warrant just after noon yesterday at Main and Oak streets in Centralia. Jason R. Slight was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, trespass, harassment, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor assault, third-degree theft, barking neighbor dog, a bag containing a gun found in a cart at the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue which the owner came back and claimed … and more among 124 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.