Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

February 24th, 2016
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Updated at 7:10 p.m.

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KICKED BY SUSPECT

• Two deputies were kicked and scraped up but eventually able to take a man into custody after a 6:30 p.m. yesterday call about him making threats at the 400 block of Collins Road outside Toledo. While enroute, deputies were advised a dispute was underway, with possibly gun shots fired, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Once inside the home where Darrell R. Jackson resides with his parents, deputies tried to talk him in to coming out, but Jackson reached to an open desk drawer, prompting at attempt to Taser him, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the Taser had no effect because of Jackson’s bulky coat and a fight ensued in which one deputy was kicked in the chest three times. Another deputy also deployed a Taser and that deputy was also kicked, Brown said. Jackson, 26, was ultimately detained and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of third-degree assault, resisting arrest and an outstanding warrant, according to Brown. Brown said they didn’t believe any shots were actually fired. According to charging documents filed today in Lewis County Superior Court, before he was handcuffed, Jackson grabbed a bottle of prescription medication and swallowed approximately 20 to 30 pills so he was taken to the emergency room at Providence Centralia Hospital to be treated for an overdose before he was taken to the jail. His bail this afternoon was set at $50,000.

BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called about 3:45 p.m. yesterday regarding a burglary at a business on the 200 block of North Tower Avenue. Paperwork was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DOMESTIC THREATS

• A 28-year-old man was arrested early yesterday in connection with an incident a week ago in which he allegedly tried to steal a part off a piece of equipment in his step-father’s yard and when he was questioned, suggested he would blow their house up if they called police. According to charging documents, Dominic L. Combs was at the location on the 800 block of South Gold Street last Monday in violation of a protection order. Combs was charged today in Lewis County Superior Court with second-degree burglary, harassment and two counts of intimidating a witness. His bail was set at $25,000. His temporary defense attorney indicated the former Centralia resident resides in Longview.

DRUGS

• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to a report that a client arrived at the treatment center at the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue with drugs. Brandon E. Zanger, 35, from Lake Stevens, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

ASSAULT SUSPECT ARRESTED

• Bail was set at $10,000 yesterday for a 31-year-old Chehalis resident Gustavo Casmiro-Gomez, charged with second-degree assault for his alleged role in the beating of a man early on the morning of Sept. 20 at the 1300 block of Southwest Mills Street in Chehalis. Casmiro-Gomez was arrested on Monday and charges filed the same day in Lewis County Superior Court. Charging documents state he and another man were asked to leave a birthday gathering and subsequently showed up on Mills Street and allegedly attacked “an old man.” The victim lost consciousness, suffered a concussion and had facial disfigurement, according to court papers. An arrest warrant was issued on Monday for the second suspect.

MOLESTATION ALLEGATIONS ARISE

• A 29-year-old Centralia man who turned himself in after learning from the sheriff’s office Facebook page he was wanted on a warrant appeared in court this afternoon out-of-custody, charged with three counts of first-degree child molestation. Robert L. Brash was ordered to wear a monitoring device and is allowed release pending trial on a $50,000 unsecured bond. Charges filed Feb. 3 in Lewis County Superior Court state that a now-retired detective was contacted by the Okeechobee (Florida) Police Department where two young girls said Brash had touched their “privates” when they resided in Onalaska during the summer and early autumn of 2013. The alleged victims were 6 and 8 years old and at least one is related to Brash, according to the documents.

AND MORE

• And as usual,  other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more, among the 140 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6:30 a.m. today.

News brief: Rochester fire burns outbuilding

February 24th, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Investigators this morning are looking for the cause of a blaze last night that destroyed a medium-sized one-story shop building in Rochester.

Crews called at 8:47 p.m. to the 16600 block of Jordan Street Southwest found the structure fully involved in flames and fought the fire defensively, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.

The adjacent house and shed were steaming from radiant heat, so they protected those buildings from igniting, Chief Robert Scott said.

Firefighters were on the scene into the early hours this morning, Scott said.

Nobody was injured and he wasn’t sure what the shop building contained, Scott said.

Social media marketing of weed for sale lands student in lockup

February 24th, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A deputy was called to Toledo High School yesterday morning to follow up on a clue a student may be in possession of marijuana.

The evidence: A staff member showed the deputy a Facebook post allegedly made by the juvenile featuring a photo of four large buds and indicating he was trying to sell them, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

A deputy spoke to the 16-year-old boy, who pulled items out of his backpack and handed them over, according to the sheriff’s office.

A ziplock baggie containing 36.5 grams of the vegetable matter and another container with just shy of 14 grams were confiscated, the sheriff’s office reported this morning.

The teenager was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

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February 23rd, 2016
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Updated at 12:39 p.m.

MEDS STOLEN FROM SHOPPING CART

• Chehalis police were called just before 1 p.m. yesterday when a shopper said a male snatched prescription medications from her cart. Officers responding to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue were told he got into a vehicle and fled. It was cold medicine, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 10:35 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of West Sixth Street where an unknown person got inside an unlocked vehicle and rummaged around. Nothing initially appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called to the 1200 block of Lum Road in Centralia about 1 p.m. yesterday where someone broke into a locked vehicle and stole a stereo and companion component. It looked as though the lock was “punched out,” according to the Centralia Police Department.

GARAGE PROWLER NOT LOCATED

• Morton police yesterday reported they didn’t find the individual who was prowling around inside a garage while the resident was home the night of Feb. 14 at the 800 block of West Main Avenue. An officer called about 9:30 p.m. that night was told that when the homeowner opened the garage door, the person fled the scene. Although the car door was left open, nothing appeared to be missing or damaged, according to the Morton Police Department.

COIN THEFT SUSPECT: ‘JUST BEING STUPID’

• Morton police arrested a 34-year-old Bonney Lake man for an incident from August in which someone tried to steal money from the coin machine at the Mossyrock Car Wash. An officer called on August 23 was shown where someone had drilled the key hole and also viewed surveillance images that showed a truck, and its license plate, pull up and a male get out and use a power tool on the padlock at 1:21 p.m. the day before, according to court documents. A Morton officer picked up the suspect on Friday as he was being released from the Pierce County Jail and the suspect allegedly admitted “he was just being stupid and that he needed gas money to get home,” charging documents state. Christopher McKee was booked into the Lewis County Jail and yesterday he was charged with attempted second-degree burglary. The judge allowed him release on a $5,000 unsecured bond. His arraignment is Thursday.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Morton police yesterday reported they are still investigating a vehicle versus pedestrian collision from the evening of Feb. 13 at the 100 block of State Street in Mossyrock.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, graffiti, civil issue, parking complaint, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, third-degree domestic malicious mischief, possibly suicidal person, request to ask a woman to stop sending out photos of her husband’s genitals to people, very bitey small dog found running in and out of traffic … and more, among the 162 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6:30 a.m. today.

Centralia stabbing suspect denied attack

February 22nd, 2016
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Marcelle J. Snodgrass consults with defense attorney Joely O’Rourke today in Lewis County Superior Court.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Bail was set today at $250,000 for the Centralia woman accused of stabbing her roommate in the chest with a large kitchen knife yesterday afternoon.

Marcelle J. Snodgrass, 45, was handcuffed and shackled at her waist and ankles when she was brought into Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon.

She was charged with first-degree assault, a class A felony that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.

Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Nelson asked the judge to hold Snodgrass on $500,000 bail, citing a threat to community safety and noting that when she was on electronic home monitoring on “the 16th” she tested positive for methamphetamine.

He said it he saw 11 convictions in Alaska for Snodgrass.

Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke in requesting bail of only $25,000 said she didn’t know anything about convictions in Alaska, but said other than a felony last year, her client’s most recent felony was 20 years ago.

The 26-year-old victim survived the injury which was described as deep but not life-threatening as it didn’t pierce any major organs. She was taken to the hospital yesterday evening and released by this morning.

The wound was just below her collarbone, according to court papers.

Charging papers and police indicate an officer called about 5:11 p.m. yesterday to a report of a stabbing victim contacted the woman near the intersection of North Washington Avenue and Park Street.

Brittany Ross told an officer Marci Snodgrass and she had been in an argument over rent money at the apartment on 200 block of North Ash Street and Snodgrass stabbed her with a knife that was long with a serrated blade and a black handle, according to court documents.

Ross said her friend Michael Mitchell was there and helped her out of the house. Mitchell corroborated her story, according to the documents.

When police went to the apartment and spoke with Snodgrass, she denied anything other than a verbal argument.

Detective Sgt. Carl Buster said this morning the victim and her friend ran, and she collapsed a few blocks from the apartment, but he didn’t have a phone and neighbors in the area called 911.

When officers searched the apartment, they retrieved a long, black-handled serrated knife hidden behind cookie sheets in the kitchen, with tissue and a substance on the first three inches of the blade, charging documents relate.

Snodgrass, through her lawyer, told the judge the woman hadn’t lived with her in a month, that she’d asked her move out because of drug use.

She indicated to the judge through sniffles that she was ill, didn’t have her medication and had suffered three seizures already while locked up.

O’Rourke said Snodgrass was unemployed, and living on SSI disability benefits and qualified for a court appointed lawyer.
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For background, read “Centralia woman stabbed, roommate arrested” from Monday February 22, 2016, here

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February 22nd, 2016
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RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY WINLOCK

• A deputy was called about 6 p.m. on Saturday to a residential burglary on the 700 block of Nevil Road in Winlock in which an estimated $7,000 worth of valuables were stolen. Among the missing items are a 12-gauge shotgun, two chainsaws, two flat screen televisions, two electric winches, a video camera, a laptop computer and a torch kit, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

BREAK-IN ETHEL

• Deputies were called about 4:20 a.m. yesterday when the door was discovered open and its lock damaged at the Ethel Market on the 1400 block of U.S. Highway 12. Nothing at first appeared to be missing but the owner subsequently discovered several high-end fishing rods were gone, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called at 11 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 300 block of Northwest Georgia Avenue.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday regarding a tire slashed on a vehicle at Northeast Washington Avenue near Main Street.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, shoplifting, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances … and more, among the 103 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6:30 a.m. today.

News brief: Chehalis woman hurt when truck flips over on state Route 6

February 22nd, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 19-year-old was injured when her pickup struck a culvert and flipped onto its top this morning along state Route 6 about six and a half miles east of Pe Ell.

Troopers called to the scene about 5:40 a.m. report that Ryley R. Lusk, of Chehalis, was not wearing a seat belt and was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital. A hospital spokesperson said she is listed in good condition.

Her 1999 Ford F350 truck is described as totaled.

Lusk had been heading eastbound when her vehicle left the roadway to the right and traveled into a ditch, according to the Washington State Patrol.

She was to be issued citations for not wearing a seat belt and for wheels off the roadway, according to the state patrol.