Posts Tagged ‘By Sharyn L. Decker’

News brief: Shop with a Cop events looking for kids

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Applications are due on Friday for the Chehalis Police Officers’ Association’s annual Shop with a Cop program.

The event in which a limited number of children are selected to participate happens on Dec. 16.

Applications are available at the Chehalis Police Department at 350 N. Market Blvd. and also on its website, http://ci.chehalis.wa.us/police Those with questions can call 360-748-8605.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is holding their annual event on Dec. 17. Their application deadline is next Tuesday.

The sheriff’s office partners with United Way of Lewis County to find children in need of a positive experience with law enforcement, as well as those in need of financial assistance.

Applications are available from the United Way website at www.lewiscountyuw.com, their office at 450 N.W. Pacific Avenue, in Chehalis, or by calling the United Way office at 748-8100. Applications are also available at the front counter of the sheriff’s office or on its Facebook page.

News brief: Formal changes coming for top officers at Centralia Police Department

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Two sergeants at the Centralia Police Department will be promoted to commander positions effective Jan. 1.

They are Sgt. Stacy Denham and detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald, who have been working as acting commanders since the chief demoted the two officers who were commanders when he took over the department in May.

Centralia Police Chief Carl Nielsen said testing was done last week for the positions. His announcement of the change is on the agenda this evening for the Civil Service Commission meeting, Nielsen said.

Former Cmdr. Dave Ross was reassigned to a sergeant position on June 1 and Cmdr. Jim Rich moved to a sergeant position on July 2. Rich was, along with Nielsen, one of the finalist to replace outgoing Chief Bob Berg earlier this year.

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
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ON THE ROAD

• A 56-year-old bicyclist was injured when a white box-style van passing him at the 1200 block of Winlock-Vader Road in Winlock struck him, breaking his left arm yesterday morning. It happened about 8:45 and both were heading northbound, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It was the mirror on the vehicle which hit the man’s arm, according to the sheriff’s office. The victim, from Vader, said the van stopped for a moment and then continued on, Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. He was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and Breen is asking anyone with any information to call Lewis County Crime Stoppers.

SURVEILLANCE IMAGE MONITORING HELPS CATCH BURGLARS

• Two individuals prowling around a business overnight in the Chehalis Industrial Park were arrested, after an alarm summoned deputies and someone monitoring surveillance images described them as entering multiple buildings. It happened about 1:15 .m. at the 100 block of Habein Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested after a short foot pursuit were Suvonie M. Misner, 35, from Portland and James E. Carroll, 42, of Wapato, according to the sheriff’s office. Taken from the business were a jacket, gauze and eye wash, Cmdr. Dusty Breen said. The two were booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary. Carroll was additionally booked for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act as he was found in possession of a pipe with white crystal residue, Breen said.

NO-NAME CUSTOMER WON’T PAY

• An officer was called to the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia at 9 o’clock yesterday morning where a man reportedly refused to pay for his meal. He also refused to give the officer his name, so he was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for obstructing a public servant and third-degree theft, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TRESPASSING

• Centralia police are investigating a discovery that someone was inside a residence on the 700 block of Woodland Avenue and also tampered with its power box. An officer responded to a 7:45 a.m. report about it yesterday.

VANDALISM

• Graffiti was reported yesterday on the wall of a building at the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, tagging, hit and run, suicidal person, suspicious circumstances,  runaway teen … and more.

News brief: Fight over meth sale leads to assault with knife

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 34-year-old man was stabbed in Centralia yesterday during a dispute believed to be over a drug deal.

“I don’t know how seriously the victim was injured,” Officer John Panco said this morning. “But it’s not life-threatening.”

The man is from Tacoma, he said. He was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital.

Police are still investigating the incident associated with a location at the 600 block of South Silver Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

Officers were called about 11:15 a.m. and arrested a man and woman who were there together, according to Panco.

“Somehow meth was exchanged, somehow payment was not made,” Panco said. A physical altercation then ensued, according to police.

Sasha A. Morgan, 29, allegedly stabbed the 34-year-old with a knife, and was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department.

Jesse Bartley, 25, described as transient, was arrested and booked for attempted delivery of methamphetamine, Panco said.

The two are likely to be brought before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.

News brief: Passenger tossed from rollover wreck north of Grand Mound

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 52-year-old Oakville woman is at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after she was ejected from a car that rolled several times when its driver lost control on Interstate 5 in south Thurston County yesterday.

Troopers called about 1:40 p.m. to the northbound lanes  about five miles north of Grand Mound, report the 1997 BMW 740 was headed north and traveling too fast when its 21-year-old driver wrecked.

Carla J. Thomas, 52, of Oakville, was transported to the Seattle hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. This morning Thomas was listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit there.

The driver was also injured. Jonathan M. Jack, 21, of Rochester was taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, according to the state patrol.

A spokesperson for Sr. Peter’s said this morning Jack was not a patient at the hospital. An individual with the same name has been booked into the Thurston County Jail for vehicular assault, according to jails’ online roster.

The BMW was impounded to the state patrol’s bullpen in Tacoma.

Law enforcement: ‘Credible report’ the missing Kayla Croft-Payne died in Cowlitz County

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Detectives recently traveled to Oregon, in search of the body of Kayla Croft-Payne, the Lewis County teen who vanished five and half years ago.

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Kayla Croft-Payne

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating since the beginning, but several weeks ago, after getting new information, the case was turned over to the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office.

Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig said he feels like the case has progressed from where it stood six months ago.

“We have had some good leads,” Rosenzweig said yesterday.

Detectives feel like they know now where it was Kayla Croft-Payne died, and they think it was in Cowlitz County, Rosenzweig said.

That’s the reason his detectives have taken it over, he said.

“We believe the information she died in our jurisdiction is a credible report,” he said.

Croft-Payne was 18 year old in May 2010 when she was reported missing by a friend. She was described as jobless and transient, but lived in rural Chehalis.

Her roommate at the time has said they were together the night she went missing, and another friend came to pick Croft-Payne up from their friend’s in Onalaska.

Early in the investigation, the sheriff’s office said the last place they could verify her spending time was a trailer park in the Toutle area. They had a cadaver dog search around a river in the Toutle area that summer, without success.

Rosenzweig said that in the next couple of weeks, he and his people plan to share more information about what they’ve been doing.

He wasn’t prepared to say specifically where in Oregon they hunted for her body, or specifically where they think Croft-Payne died, although he said it was in the northern portion of the county.

“Honestly, we’re hoping to spur some interest,” he said.

He did ask that anyone who has not yet talked to police, but has any information, to please phone detective Brad Thurman at 360-577-3092.
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For background, read “Kayla Croft-Payne: Missing Lewis County teen’s parents still seeking answers” from Friday March 25, 2011, here

Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
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ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT PORT

• A deputy responding to an alarm just before 10 p.m. yesterday from a storage building at the 3500 block of Ives Road in Centralia found someone damaged a padlock, got inside but had already fled the premises. The victim is the Port of Centralia and nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

VEHICLE THEFT

• Someone stole a beige 1984 Toyota van overnight from Northeast Division Street in  Chehalis, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.

• Police called yesterday afternoon about a pickup truck blocking a driveway since Thursday on the 600 block of M Street in Centralia discovered it was stolen from a farm in Rochester, according to the Centralia Police Department. It was returned to is owner, according to police.

FRAUD

• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by a 26-year-old woman who is in prison and learned that after she left her purse with an individual last year, someone used her EBT card, stealing quite a lot of money. Police are looking into it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Officers took a report yesterday morning of someone attempting to pass two prescriptions that appeared to be forged at a pharmacy on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. The suspect, Krista M. Peterson, 30, was subsequently arrested for prescription forgery, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Chehalis police were called about 9:20 a.m. yesterday to Southwest Chehalis Avenue just south of Main Street about a ca prowl and found four vehicles at a business had been broken into.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were called about 6:25 p.m. yesterday after a cup of ice was thrown from a moving vehicle which hit another vehicle on the road and broke its headlight near Eshom and Fords Prairie roads. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Chehalis police took a report yesterday of white spray painted graffiti on a fence at Southwest Chehalis Avenue just south of Main Street. Later in the day, officers were called about tagging at the the 100 block of North Market Boulevard, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

AND FROM MOSSYROCK

• Morton police yesterday reported they forwarded cases for several individuals to prosecutors to review for “appropriate charges” following a late Tuesday night call last week to a loud party at the 100 block of Coleman Road in Mossyrock from which more than two dozen juveniles ran away. Police say they were able to get the youths to come back into the residence for investigation. An unspecified number of them were released to their parents, according to the Morton Police Department.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances,  runaway teen … and more.