Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

January 26th, 2016
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DOMESTIC INCIDENT

• A woman called 911 last night to tell police that after she struck her teenage daughter in the face, the daughter struck her back. The 15-year-old girl was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for fourth-degree assault, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Even though they both (allegedly) hit each other, parents have certain rights to carrying out physical discipline but children do not have similar rights, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

JEWELRY THEFT

• Police were called about 6:40 p.m. yesterday to the 1000 block of B Street in Centralia to take a report of a stolen wedding ring.

COMMOTION AT CHEHALIS PARK STILL MYSTERIOUS

• Chehalis police are still trying to sort out an alleged attempted robbery from Sunday night at Stan Hedwall Park. A woman called 911 about 7:49 p.m. and said a stranger tried to take her car keys and that she was knocked down and kicked, according to the Chehalis Police Department. However, not everyone involved is making themselves available to be interviewed, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. It appears there were two groups of people, he said, with a “couple of females” at the park on Rice Road and then a “couple of males” who showed up. When officers arrived, one male fled and the other was already gone, he said. “I’ve got nothing concrete yet,” Wilson said.

WAYWARD PELLETS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office yesterday said the duck hunters involved in the incident the morning before in which pellets from bird shot landed on a vehicle and a person in the area of Southwest Sylvenus Street in Chehalis were not cited, but were warned of “better practices”. They were on a pond on private property off the Hillberger and Shorey roads area and fired at a duck overhead, according to Chief Deputy Stacy Brown. The person hit with one of the pellets was on the Rails to Trails trail in the same area, Brown said. There were no injuries to the person and no damage to car, according to Brown. “Of course we would prefer that hunters not shoot at all in areas where there are other people but in this case they heeded our advice and there were no further issues,” Brown said.

DRUGS

• Morton police reported yesterday two juveniles were caught smoking marijuana a week and a half ago at the the 400 block of Main Avenue.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Morton police reported yesterday officers responded to Main Street  to an accident a week ago Monday at 2:49 p.m.  A Lewis County deputy’s vehicle was damaged by another car backing out of a driveway, according to police.  No one was injured and the accident is being handled through the Washington State Patrol.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, probation violation, obstructing, trespassing, disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarm, dispute, loose dogs, misdemeanor theft, malicious mischief, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

January 25th, 2016
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Updated at 1:12 p.m.

MYSTERY COMMOTION AT CHEHALIS PARK

• Numerous law enforcement officers responded to a report of a robbery at Stan Hedwall Park in Chehalis last night. A spokesperson at the Chehalis Police Department indicated she couldn’t reveal much about what occurred because police are still gathering information. “There was a report of some sort of an altercation out there,” spokesperson Linda Bailey said this morning of the park on Rice Road. The 911 call came at 7:49 p.m. and no arrests have been made. Bailey said she wasn’t aware of anyone being hurt and said the department doesn’t have all the details yet.

SHOT AT IN CHEHALIS

• Police were called about 8:40 a.m. yesterday to the area of Southwest Sylvenus Street in Chehalis where individuals said one of them and their vehicles were sprayed with buckshot from duck hunters. A Chehalis officer responded to take the initial report and the case was turned over to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. No further information from either agency was readily available this morning.

DOMESTIC ASSAULT RANDLE

• Deputies responding yesterday morning to an alleged domestic misdemeanor assault on Cline Road in Randle decided to recommend a felony charge against a 16-year-old boy after learning that two days earlier he had allegedly slammed the same woman against a wall and stopped her from breathing by placing his elbow against her throat, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The teenager was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the sheriff’s office.

BURGLARY PACKWOOD

• Eight hundred dollars cash and two laptop computers were stolen in a burglary at the 100 block of Timberline Point Road in Packwood yesterday, sometime between 8:50 a.m. and 5:10 p.m. The loss to the Steilacoom resident is estimated at $2,375, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Two accordions are missing after a residential burglary at the 600 block of Nick Road in Centralia sometime during the 24 hours that ended at 3 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

AUTO THEFT

• A car left running and unoccupied parked on a Centralia city street was stolen, according to a report made to police about 12:45 p.m. on Saturday. Missing from the 200 block of Centralia College Boulevard is a 1994 four-door Infiniti J30 with a license plate reading ASP 3830, according to the Centralia Police Department.

OTHER THEFT

• Chehalis police were called just after 1 p.m. on Friday to the 2600 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue regarding a possible theft related to use of a credit card at a business. The case is related to an incident three days earlier at Valley View Medical Center in which all four receptionists tills were reported missing. The investigation continues, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

REMOVED FROM BUILDING

• Centralia police were called about 7:30 a.m. yesterday to the 700 block of Harrison Avenue where sometime during the previous evening someone had removed security cameras from their mountings on the outside of the building. The case is still under investigations, according to the Centralia Police Department.

REMOVED FROM GARAGE

• A 38-year-old man was arrested for trespassing after a real estate agent contacted Centralia police on Saturday to report possibly people in the garage at the vacant home on the 200 block of Tilley Avenue. Zebediah S. Schoening was issued a citation and removed from the property, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were called yesterday about a vehicle prowl at South Market Boulevard and 11th Street where someone had broken a side window and damaged the ignition.

• A coin purse and a grooming kit were stolen from a locked vehicle overnight at the 400 block of Southwest 14th Street in Chehalis, according to a report made to police on Friday.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 4:30 p.m. on Friday to the 1000 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue where someone had cut a portion of a fence around a business.

DRUGS

• A 26-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine last night following contact with an officer at the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road in Centralia. Jeffery T. Larson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 34-year-old Centralia resident as arrested for possession of methamphetamine around 11 p.m. on Saturday following contact with an officer at the 200 block of North Ash Street in Centralia. Efren J. Arias, 34, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 22-year-old Centralia man who ran on Friday when an officer tried to contact him as a possible suspect in a vehicle prowl the day before in Chehalis was eventually found in a vacant garage, by a police dog, according to the Centralia Police Department. Nathan A. Cheney was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and a warrant in the case associated with the 700 block of South Gold Street, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants,  shoplifting, disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault, no-contact order violation, driving with no license, driving with suspended license, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, lost dog, found dog, loitering, hit and run, vandalism, civil issue, misdemeanor theft, suicidal person, suspicious circumstances, harassing text messages, collision on city street, request to have a customer with a couple thousand dollars worth of merchandise in a shopping cart removed from Wal-Mart … and more.

News brief: Low-interest recovery loans available for December storm victims

January 24th, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – While 66 homes in Lewis County were damaged or affected by the December storm, no recovery assistance will be forthcoming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

However, individuals who suffered losses may apply for assistance through the Small Business Administration loan recovery program in Cowlitz County, according to Steve Mansfield, manager of Lewis County Department of Emergency Management. The SBA offers low-interest loans.

Mansfield learned last week Washington state did not qualify for FEMA-funded help for individuals.

Of the 66 residences affected, 18 of them were secondary dwellings and the degree of damage was not noted in a list compiled by DEM for possible help from FEMA because they wouldn’t qualify.

Among the primary residences affected, three were destroyed and 11 sustained major damage, according to Mansfield. Another 33 were affected to lesser degree and at least one was left inaccessible.

As of last week, DEM didn’t yet have information about where or when Cowlitz County’s Disaster Loan Center would be set up.

Those with questions for Lewis County Department of Emergency Management can reach them at 360-740-1151.

News brief: Volunteer law enforcement officer opportunities open locally

January 24th, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The Centralia Police Department is now recruiting for up to five reserve police officer positions.

A reserve law enforcement academy is tentatively scheduled to begin in April, with graduation in September.

Applications for the volunteer positions are due by Feb. 1.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office will be tentatively co-hosting the training.

The program is sponsored through the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission.

Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Stacy Brown says the academy requires a minimum of 249.5 hours of course work and certifies individuals to work as reserve officers throughout the state.

“Reserve deputies typically work with full-time deputies in performance of their duties,” Brown states. “Tenured reserves who have passed appropriate training are also allowed to perform patrol duties by themselves with minimal supervision.”

Centralia police describe the testing process as including a physical ability test, oral board interview, background investigation, polygraph (lie detector test) and psychological testing.

Persons interested in becoming part of the sheriff’s office reserve program may contact Deputy Matt Schlecht at mathew.schlecht@lewiscountywa.gov or at 360-748-9286.

Those interested in becoming involved with Centralia’s program can contact Sgt. Carl Buster at cbuster@cityofcentralia.com or 360-330-7680. Centralia’s applications can be downloaded from http://www.cityofcentralia.com/files/Job%20Application%20-%20Fill%20in%20Form.pdf

Jasper’s case ends with a second 34-year sentence

January 23rd, 2016
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Brenda A. Wing, 28, and her lawyer finalize her sentencing documents in Lewis County Superior Court.

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A Lewis County judge yesterday decided that standing by and doing nothing while her husband inflicted abuse upon a toddler that led to his death merited the same lengthy prison sentence for Brenda A. Wing.

Twenty-eight-year-old Wing, a mother of three, was given 34 years and eight months for first-degree manslaughter.

The couple who are originally from the Vancouver area were taking care of a 3-year-old boy in their Vader home. Jasper Henderling-Warner died on Oct. 5, 2014.

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Jasper Henderling-Warner

Lewis County Superior Court Judge Nelson Hunt called it the worst case of child abuse he had ever seen.

“The two months worth, over two months, of torture here,” Hunt said. “As I recall, no single incident was fatal; Jasper’s body simply gave up.”

“This is the reason accomplices are equally as guilty,” he said.

The court hearing yesterday afternoon in Chehalis brings to an end the case that began 15 months ago.

The family had been living in the Vader house about two weeks when the Wings called 911 to say the toddler was unconscious and not breathing. Jasper’s 21-year-old mother had given the couple temporary custody while she was homeless and looked for work out of state.

There was no trial to bring out all the facts and details of what transpired. Lewis County prosecutors entered into a complex plea agreement because they did not know what actually happened.

Among the autopsy findings was facial trauma, including two lower-front teeth missing, as well as scrapes and bruises and also that Jasper had contracted MRSA, a drug-resistant staph infection.

Some of the statements from the couple given to investigators, and tested with polygraphs, which have been revealed during numerous court hearings suggest it began on the return home from a beach trip to Oregon.

Brenda Wing told her husband Jasper had placed his hands over their infant child’s mouth, prompting Danny Wing to strike Jasper in the face several times in the back of their van.

Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead has said that the little boy was being hit and conditioned until he would say it was someone else who had been harming him.

The plea agreements offered the Wings an opportunity of recommendations they be locked up for about 16 years if they truthfully described what occurred.

Halstead, the judge and defense attorney John Crowley spent a great deal of time yesterday discussing what the language in the supplemental agreement meant and whether Brenda Wing held up her end of the bargain. The deputy prosecutor successfully argued she withheld material information from investigators.

Halstead read from some of her statements: “Sometimes I would hold him down, while Danny was hitting him; this was to keep him from getting hurt worse” and “I remember flicking Jasper in the mouth.”

It turns out, while Brenda Wing told her husband Jasper assaulted their baby in the back of the car, he hadn’t, according to Halstead.

Halstead told the judge Brenda Wing admitted the lie to one of her relatives in a phone call from the jail, and said she didn’t know why she had said that to her husband but said it was what started all of the abuse.

When Danny Wing was sentenced in September, his lawyer compared the couple’s treatment of Jasper to a “Cinderella affect.”

Brenda Wing’s convictions, from the pleas she made last year, also include third-degree child assault, two counts of witness tampering and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

Halstead asked the judge yesterday to give her 55 years in prison, the same request he’d made regarding her husband.

“I’m not going to go back through all of the facts,” he said. “I think the court’s aware of what’s in the file.”

Crowley requested a sentence of 14 and a half years, contending his client had not failed in the requirements of the plea agreement.

“She feels great remorse for whatever role she did play,” Crowley said.

Brenda Wing declined to speak on her own behalf.

Jasper’s mother, flanked in the first row bench by four women friends, advocated for the maximum sentence when she addressed the judge.

Nikki Warner recalled her child’s amazing and silly laugh and told the judge she asked people she considered family to take care of him while she got back on her feet.

“I could not believe it when I found out the living hell my son suffered,” she said.

Jasper would have celebrated his fifth birthday next week, she said.

“Why did you lie about Jasper doing mean things to your son that never happened?” Warner asked the defendant.

Also speaking to the court was Ruth Crear, a 14-year volunteer for the fire department, who was the first to arrive to the Vader house that evening.

She urged the judge to put Brenda Wing away for as long as he could.

“He was 3 years old, he couldn’t defend himself,” Crear said.

Crowley said his client will appeal.
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For background, read ” Vader man gets 34 years for toddler death” from Friday September 25, 2015, here

News brief: Mossyrock woman hurt in Highway 12 crash

January 23rd, 2016

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 22-year-old driver was injured when she lost control of her car and wrecked into a guard rail along U.S. Highway 12 just west of Mayfield Lake last night.

Troopers responding about 11:15 p.m. found Layla R. Horton was traveling eastbound near Filbert Road when her vehicle left the roadway to the right, she overcorrected and then crossed to to opposite side of the highway, according to the Washington State Patrol.

The Mossyrock resident was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the state patrol. She had not been wearing a seat belt.

Her 2010 Hyundai Accent was described as totaled.

Troopers suspect alcohol or drugs to be involved, according to the state patrol. The collision is blamed on driving too fast.

Horton was to be cited for first-degree negligent driving, according to the investigating trooper.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

January 22nd, 2016
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Updated at 8:10 p.m.

BICYCLE BANDITS STRIKE IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called at 3:50 p.m. yesterday to Northwest State Avenue where a woman said she set her backpack down and two white males on bicycles snatched it up and fled.

CAR PROWL

• An individual reported a vehicle prowl in progress just after 4 o’clock this morning at the 200 block of South Iron Street in Centralia, but the suspect was scared off, according to the Centralia Police Department. A track with a police dog failed to locate the suspect, according to police.

• Police caught a woman who ran but continued trying to track down a man for almost two hours yesterday morning in Chehalis after an individual caught someone believed to be prowling his vehicle on Northeast Terrace Road. Jobie K. Watson, 30, from Centralia, was arrested for obstructing because she ran from police and then also for possession of drugs, according to the Chehalis Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail. The male was not located.

• An unknown suspect broke into a locked car and stole a helmet and paperwork from the 900 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 1:40 p.m. yesterday.

• Centralia police were called about 1 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of West Chestnut Street where someone had stolen a (broken) guitar and a set of jumper cables from an unlocked vehicle.

WHAT THE HECK?

• Centralia police were called at 12:45 p.m. yesterday to the 2600 block of Cooks Hill Road where someone had stolen windshield wipers from three parked vehicles. They replaced them with old, used wipers, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• Chehalis police yesterday were called to the 300 block of Southwest 13th Street where 1994 Toyota Camry missing from Centralia was found.

FRAUD

• Centralia police were called just after 8 a.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of Lum Road where an individual had attempted to use a credit card that was denied. He then attempted to open a line of credit and later it was later determined that the credit card was stolen and the credit application fraudulent, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DOMESTIC ASSAULT

• A 24-year-old man was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday after allegedly choking his significant other at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street in Chehalis. Officers responding about 3:15 p.m. booked Matthew P. Paylor, of Centralia, into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Someone spray painted graffiti on the side of a residence at the 1100 block of Alexander Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police last night.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• Centralia police say a pedestrian sustained a minor leg injury when he stepped off a curb last night and was struck by a passenger vehicle. It happened about 9:20 p.m. at Tower Avenue and Maple Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 16-year-old driver was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center with a serious facial laceration after his truck left the roadway early this morning in Onalaska. Deputies responding about 12:30 a.m. to the wreck at Deggler and Middle Ford roads found the 1986 Nissan pickup was totaled, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The teen, from Onalaska, and his 14-year-old passenger from Chehalis had both been wearing seat belts, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The girl was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital with bruising to her torso, according to Brown.  The boy was cited for second-degree negligent driving and a case will be forwarded to juvenile prosecutors for driving with a suspended license, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 44-year-old man was injured today when his van struck a tree off state Route 7 just a mile north of Morton, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers responding at approximately 11 a.m. found that Frank J. Willing had been southbound and going too fast before his vehicle left the roadway, rolled and hit the tree. The Tacoma resident was transported to Morton General Hospital. His Chevrolet Astro van was described as totaled, according to the state patrol. He was to be issued a citation for second-degree negligent driving. Willing was not wearing a seat belt, according to the investigating trooper.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting; responses for alarm, dispute, disorderly conduct, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.