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NIGHTTIME INTRUDER AT CHEHALIS BUSINESS

• Chehalis police were called to a business on the 600 block of Northwest State Avenue about 9:10 a.m. yesterday after the discovery someone had broken a side window during the night, gone inside and stole small amounts of cash. It happened at Kaija’s garden, feed and pet store and police have no suspects, yet, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

UNINVITED GUESTS

• Morton police were called about 6:20 p.m. on Friday to a residence at the 300 block of Division Street where a female said someone had opened her front door. She described the suspects as possibly two younger males, maybe in their 20’s, wearing all black, with beanie hats, according to the Morton Police Department. She said they left on foot towards Third Street but an officer checking the area was unable to locate the suspects, according to police.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 7:10 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 1000 block of Elm Street. A laptop computer and paperwork were stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT MORTON

• Morton police were called to the 400 block of Third Street about 3:35 p.m. on Friday where an individual said they had put some items out by their car while they were trying to move and someone came by and stole the items. The case is under investigation, according to the Morton Police Department.

ROAD RAGE REPORT

• Chehalis police were called yesterday by a woman who said her estranged husband rammed her car, twice, the night before. An officer will look at the damage and further investigate, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VEHICLE BURNS

• Firefighters were called to the parking lot at Wal-Mart about 2:40 p.m. yesterday where a truck was ablaze near the garden center. Nobody was hurt but the 1986 Ford pickup was ruined, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, misdemeanor assault, unfounded reports, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, county road, state highway, inquiry about privacy regarding a drone flying in neighborhood … and more.

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Updated at 8 p.m.

MAN USES “N” WORD, GETS BEAT UP OUTSIDE BAR

• A 30-year-old Mossyrock man was assaulted on a sidewalk outside a bar in Centralia last night by numerous individuals after using racial slurs toward them, including the “N” word, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer called about 6:15 p.m. to talk with the victim found he had a scraped and swollen face as well as a cut lip, according to police. It happened on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. The suspects were not identified, police indicated.

WAL-MART: ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION OR HONEST MISTAKE?

• Chehalis police got a phone call on Saturday afternoon from a father who said a woman tried to kidnap his 3-month-old baby, when she took off with his shopping car containing the infant at Wal-Mart. Police were told he yelled at the woman and threw his soda at her to get his daughter back, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The little one had been in a carrier and covered up, and the woman apologized, police said. The dad didn’t call 911 until he got home, according to police. Officers are waiting to view security footage to make a determination whether to proceed, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

DOMESTIC INCIDENT

• A 65-year-old Chehalis area man was arrested on Saturday after an alleged assault of his wife on New Years at their shared home in which she said he got jealous and held her up by her throat and punched her. The woman turned up at the Longview Police Department seeking shelter, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. When Richard R. Bailey was contacted, he had a different version of events, but was booked into the Lewis County Jail for violation of an order with assault, according to the sheriff’s office. He said he thought she had dropped the order and they had been living together for several months, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Prosecutors declined to file the charge and Bailey was released from the jail today.

HANDGUNS STOLEN

• A 34-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday following an investigation into the theft of four firearms from a home on the 2500 block of Howard Avenue. The handguns went missing last month and Melissa A. McAllister, a relative of the owner, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for theft of a firearm yesterday afternoon, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MONEY MISSING FROM GAS STATION

• Centralia police were called at 3:50 a.m. today after an employee arrived to work at a service station on the 1100 block of Ellsbury Street and discovered a burglary. An undisclosed amount of cash had been taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

LAMPS AND ALCOHOL AMONG THE LOOT

• Someone removed an air conditioner from the window of an outbuilding on the 100 block of Kennicot Road in Chehalis and stole more than $1,000 worth of valuables including a Tiffany-style lamp, a vintage Japanese pagoda lamp, a vintage camera and case, and a stationary desk as well as four bottles of beer and four bottles of wine. It happened sometime in the two-week period before Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

AUTO THEFT

• A 1996 Honda Civic reported stolen yesterday from the 3100 block of Ives Road in Centralia turned up later in the day minus its wheels and driver’s seat on property at the 200 block of Berry Road southwest of Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A neighbor reported seeing another (black, four-door) Honda Civic in the area a few minutes earlier, loaded up with tires, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A van discovered missing from the 1500 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis on Thursday morning turned up on Saturday in Lacey, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

TAMPERING OR INTERRUPTED TIRE THIEF

• Chehalis police were called yesterday by an individual on Southwest Third Street who said he discovered all but one of the lug nuts missing from the wheels of his vehicle, something that had happened once before.

FRAUD

• A Chehalis resident contacted police on Friday after discovering a credit card she’d acquired only four days earlier showed several transactions at Wal-Mart she didn’t make, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 20-year-old Centralia resident whose vehicle smelled of marijuana during a traffic stop was subsequently arrested for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver on Saturday afternoon, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy reportedly found nearly 55 grams of suspected marijuana, multiple plastic baggies and a scale. Dustin L. Fournier was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

VANDALISM

• Police were called about 3:20 p.m. on Saturday to the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue where someone had slashed four tires on the victim’s vehicle. There were no witnesses, there are no suspects, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BREAKOUT FEARED AT GREEN HILL

• Concern about a suspected escape plan at Green Hill School – a possible repeat of the cut-a-hole-in-the-fence-and-run incident from last May, authorities at the state-run juvenile incarceration facility in south Chehalis, asked for extra police patrols on New Year’s Eve.

ARSON CHEHALIS

• Investigators are looking into an incident in which a truck inside a shop was set on fire over the weekend east of Chehalis. A deputy called about noon on Saturday to the 200 block of Aubrey Lane learned it was a “project truck” which had a wood bed installed, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Cardboard boxes in the back of the truck had burned up and the wood bed was missing, according to the sheriff’s office. They believe it occurred sometime after 9 p.m. on Friday, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. The fire was out, but a wood beam above the vehicle and some of the building’s insulation were charred, according to Brown.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, vandalism, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, someone getting cussed out after asking another if they threw a cigarette on the ground… and more.

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POLICE: DOMESTIC DISPUTE

• A 22-year-old man was arrested yesterday for unlawful imprisonment and other offenses after he allegedly blocked a door refusing to let his ex-girlfriend leave his Centralia home and took her car key off its ring and threw it in a creek behind the residence. An officer was flagged down just before 2 p.m. at the 400 block of Yew Street by a neighbor who pointed out the couple on the corner were arguing, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police contacted them and learned the female convinced him to go outside with her by lying and saying he could leave with her, according to police. Dakota S. Plaas was booked into the Lewis County Jail also for third-degree theft and violation of a protection order, according to police.

TIRE TAKEN

• An officer took a report of the theft of a spare tire from a utility trailer at the 300 block of North Washington Avenue in Centralia after an 8:30 a.m. call yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Police were called about 3:45 p.m. yesterday to a parking lot at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue where someone got inside an unlocked vehicle and stole various items including a purse.

• Centralia police were called about 11:35 a.m. yesterday about  vehicle prowl at the 1300 block of St. Helens Street in which someone got inside an unlocked vehicle and stole only the registration.

• Police were called yesterday to the 800 block of Park Way in Centralia about an overnight vehicle prowl.

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• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, domestic incident; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.

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Updated at 11:46 a.m.

PROWLER PULLS KNIFE

• Centralia police were called about 11:30 p.m. yesterday for an interrupted vehicle prowl at the 1100 block of Borthwick Street in which the suspect reportedly threatened the individual with a knife and then fled the area. The suspect is described as a white male in his 20’s, short with a slender build and wearing a grey hoodie sweatshirt, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was not located.

UNRULY PASSENGER

• A passenger who tried to intervene during field sobriety tests allegedly threatening an officer and grabbing his wrist was arrested last night for third-degree assault. It happened around 8:40 p.m. at Sixth and Pearl streets in Centralia. Michael D Cairns 47 of Onalaska, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. The incident occurred as Anthony M. Colson, 21, of Tumwater was being arrested for driving under the influence, according to police. Colson also was booked into jail.

DRUGS

• After Centralia police contacted a motorist on suspicion of driving under the influence just after 2 o’clock this morning, she allegedly struggled against officers as she was put in to a patrol vehicle, in an attempt to discard a bag of methamphetamine. Chrystal S. Zelazny, 47, from Chehalis, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of meth, according to the Centralia Police Department. The contact with officers occurred at Maple and Pearl streets, according to police.

FIREWORKS INJURY

• Deputies, firefighters and medics were called about 12:20 a.m. yesterday to Silver Creek where they found man on the ground with fireworks around him and injuries to his hand and eye. Lewis County Fire District 8 Chief Duran McDaniel said he didn’t know the extent of the injuries himself, but they called for an airlift right away. It happened in a gravel parking lot adjacent to a restaurant on the 2400 block of U.S. Highway 12, he said. Because of the fog, a helicopter was going to be delayed, so the man, in his early 30s, was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, McDaniel said. He understood they planned to transfer the patient to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, vandalism, suspicious circumstances, theft, protection order violation, collision on city street … and more.