Lewis County Sirens.com

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ENTERPRISING THIEVES

• After last year’s theft of as much as a mile of underground street light wiring along Rush Road south of Chehalis, county workers welded the metal lids to the utility boxes closed and poured concrete around them to prevent a reoccurrence. Yesterday afternoon, a deputy was called the area of Maurin and Rush roads after the discovery someone used some kind of tool to pry through the concrete and then cut out and remove an as-yet-unknown amount of wiring. Seven of the junction boxes were damaged, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said it happened sometime since Friday.

INMATE THREATENS JAIL STAFF

• A 41-year-old man from Clarkston, Wash. arrested for misdemeanor trespassing after a disturbance involving a clerk at the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia yesterday evening found himself in further trouble after arriving at the Lewis County Jail. Brad D. Kincheloe allegedly told a corrections officer that he was going to kill her in front of her family, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office says Kincheloe was abusive and uncooperative and was further booked for felony harassment.

BURGLARY CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called to a residence under renovation at the 1000 block of Yakima Street about 11:20 a.m. yesterday regarding a break-in.

• Police were called about 9:15 p.m. yesterday about electronics stolen from a home on the 1800 block of Shamrock Drive in Centralia. A possible is suspect is someone the victim allowed inside the residence, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 7:30 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in which someone broke out a window and stole a wallet. The victim’s credit cards were subsequently used at local businesses, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation, according to police.

• Change from the console of a vehicle was among the property missing after a car prowl on the 700 block of Southeast Adams Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 5:30 a.m. today

• Chehalis police were called to the 200 block of Southwest William Avenue about 9:25 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl.

OTHER THEFT

• A road sign was discovered stolen this morning from West Main Street and Tilley Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PASTURE CATCHES FIRE

• Tenino area firefighters yesterday afternoon attacked a slow creeping fire burning through grass and brush which was threatening a barn off Tilley Road South near the 160th Trail Southeast. The elderly resident was home alone and asleep when crews arrived, but they woke him up, according to Thurston County Fire District 12. The fire surrounded numerous large portions of automobiles in the middle of a pasture, but what caused it is undetermined, Battalion Chief James Fowler said. Less than an acre was charred and nobody was injured, Fowler said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving with a suspended license; responses for misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, concern about children seen riding in the bed of a pickup truck, opossum running back and forth on sidewalk at Twin City Town Center, request for officers to move along persons believed to be homeless behind a business and elsewhere… and more.

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Updated

POLICE: THREAT TO OFFICER GETS MAN LOCKED UP

• Bail was set at $10,000 for an individual a deputy prosecutor called a self-described gang member who allegedly threatened a police officer yesterday evening when he was detained near East Summa Street and Pacific Avenue in Centralia. Officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to assist the sheriff’s office after a passenger reportedly ran away from a single-vehicle accident, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say when the subject was detained, he was upset and made death threats. Twenty-two-year-old Deymen Flores-Martinez was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. He was charged today with felony harassment – for allegedly threatening Officer Doug Lowrey –  in Lewis County Superior Court. Senior Deputy Prosecutor Sara Beigh indicated the threat involved bodily harm. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge Flores-Martinez has no criminal history. Judge RIchard Brosey agreed the defendant who has lived the past 10 years with his parents locally could be released from jail pending trial if both his parents co-signed for his bail.

TOY TAKEN IN BURGLARY

• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 a.m. today when a resident returned home to Southeast Park Hill Drive and discovered a back sliding door unlocked and belongings such as a stuffed toy and clothing missing. The investigation so far has turned up a 10-year-old neighbor suspect, too young to be arrested, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

INMATE’S HOME BROKEN INTO

• Police arrested a 23-year-old homeless man for residential burglary after discovering him inside his brother’s Toledo home yesterday. Toledo Police Department Officer Randy Pennington had booked the brother into the jail for trespassing and was told he worried someone might break into his residence while he was locked up, according to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office. Pennington and another officer went to the home and inside they found Taylor K. Rebman, who appeared to have been hiding in a closet, charging documents state. There was a backpack containing the resident’s laptop computers in a closet, which Rebman said he was he was bringing back to hide there, charging documents state. Rebman was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today with residential burglary. His bail was set at $10,000 this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.

ALCOHOL SPIRITED AWAY

• Centralia police responded to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue just after 3 o’clock this morning to a report someone broke out the window of a business and stole bottles of liquor. Centralia police report an employee chased and confronted the suspects and threats were made to the employee when he asked for the alcohol back, according to the Centralia Police Department. No suspect was found but the investigation continues, according to police.

WATERCRAFT VANISH

• A 44-year-old Centralia resident reported on Saturday evening that someone had stolen his two kayaks and paddles from where he keeps them near the river near the 3800 block of Mayberry Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is stated at $998.96, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR PROWL

• Somebody broke out a window of a sport utility vehicle at Schaefer Park off Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia and stole a purse, cash, checkbook, wedding ring and a vacuum cleaner, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened on Friday evening between 5:30 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. and deputies have a person of interest, according to the sheriff’s office.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 6 o’clock this morning to a business on the 500 block  of North Market Boulevard where a glass back door had been broken out.

• An 18-year-old was arrested overnight for allegedly breaking the windows out of a bus stop in Centralia. Officer responding around 1:40 a.m. to the area of B and Sixth Street located Kristopher W. Laseke in the area and arrested him for third-degree malicious mischief,  according to the Centralia Police Department. He was then released pending his court date, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called about 6:30 a.m. today after the discovery of graffiti spray painted onto a building at the 400 block of West Main Street.

DRUGS

• A Thurston County Jail inmate brought to stay at the Lewis County Jail yesterday morning was arrested for a drug violation when a search allegedly turned up turned up medications – antidepressants and narcotics – not prescribed to her, according to the according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Karen B. Overmiller, 44, of Olympia, said she’d gotten them from another inmate in Thurston County, according to the sheriff’s office. One of them was Suboxone, according to prosecutors.

ANIMAL ISSUE

• Centralia police responding yesterday evening to a report of possible neglect of three dogs by a neighbor on the 1300 block of Delaware Street found one of the animals was dead and causing a smell. However, they learned the homeowner was out of town and had arranged for relatives to watch, feed and water the dogs, which they had been doing, according to the Centralia Police Department. A relative arrived while officers were present, according to police. The situation is under investigation, with follow up expected from the city’s animal control officers, Centralia police indicated this morning.

ON THE ROAD

• Chehalis police were called in the middle of the day on Friday after an individual saw a couple exit a Subaru Impreza in the middle of the street near William Avenue and Southwest 13th Street and walk away. The car was impounded, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A motorist suffered minor injuries when her car struck the median and rolled, coming to rest on its top yesterday afternoon on Interstate 5 in Centralia, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters called at 4:45 p.m. to the southbound lanes near the Mellen Street interchange found the 32-year-old driver had gotten out of her vehicle on her own, according to the fire department. She was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, Fire Capt. Terry Ternan indicated.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, underage drinking, protection order violation, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, trespassing, harassment, parking issue, traffic problem, noisy neighbors, misdemeanor theft, child bit by dog, possible runaway child, possible misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation, collision on city street, traffic circle conflict, concern over bad checks, concern about derogatory statements on Facebook, children alone in parked vehicle, dog alone in parked vehicle appearing in distress, business owner asking for panhandler to be removed from parking lot, request to check the well-being of a horse with apparent injury … and more.

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Updated at 7:26 p.m.

FIRE, FIRE, FIRE

• Members of West Thurston Regional Fire Authority joined other local firefighters late yesterday afternoon when a fire broke out in the Capitol Forest near the Cedar Creek Corrections Center. Crews were called around 5 p.m. to what was roughly five acres of heavy timer burning, according to Fire Lt. Rob Smith. It was approximately in the area of the D8000 Line, Smith said. As of 11:30 p.m. it stopped growing, he said. Personnel from the state Department of Natural Resources took over the incident but at least one tender was assisting them today with water, Smith said.

• Chehalis firefighters were called about 8 p.m. yesterday to a grass fire that began creeping up the side of a residence on the 700 block of Northwest Maryland Avenue. They were able to extinguish it before it got inside, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.

• Chehalis firefighters were called at about 8:30 p.m. yesterday to Yard Birds Mall  for a small fire apparently caused by a light ballast overheating. It was in the northeast corner of the sprawling structure on the 2100 block of North National Avenue according to Fire Capt. Casey Beck.

• Chehalis firefighters were called just before 3:25 a.m.  today for a residential structure fire on the 800 block of Northwest Ohio Avenue. “It turned out to be a porch on fire,” Fire Capt. Casey Beck said. The flames were quickly extinguished and did not spread, Beck said.

• Nobody was hurt but there was an estimated $3,000 damage from a cooking fire at a house on the 100 block of North Iron Street in Centralia. Riverside Fire Authority reported yesterday that the flames were out upon their arrival to the incident about 8:30 p.m. on Friday. It started on the stove and the burning dish was put in the kitchen sink but the plastic blinds on the window ignited, Capt. Tim Adolphsen wrote. There was some damage to upper cabinets and the window frame as well as some to lower cabinets when towels used to smother the flames fell to the floor, according to Adolphsen.

ROCK TOSS

• A 19-year-old Centralia woman was booked into the Lewis County Jail after an officer saw her throwing large rocks at passing vehicles along the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue at about noon yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department. Shannon L. Wachter was arrested for attempted third-degree malicious mischief, according to police.

THEFT

• Police were called to the 100 block of West Bridge Street in Centralia about 12:15 p.m. yesterday about theft of a hood ornament, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A backpack dropped onto a front porch and left unattended for short time on the 300 block of East Main Street in Centralia disappeared, according to a report made to police about 10:30 p.m. on Friday. It contained clothes, a purse with credit cards and money, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called to the 2000 block of Borst Avenue where a female told them while she was swimming someone stole her backpack and cell phone, around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Someone stole fuel from vehicles parked at the 1600 block of South Gold Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 9 a.m. on Friday.

MORE THEFT

• Centralia police were called to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia about 10:30 a.m. on Friday to take a report of the theft of cash from the business.

• An officer was called about 1 p.m. on Friday regarding money stolen from a bank account, associated with the 200 block of West Main Street in Centralia.

TICKET TIME

• Over a less than four hour period beginning late yesterday afternoon, officers in Centralia contacted six drivers – most for minor traffic violations – and learned they were driving with suspended licenses. Each was arrested without incident and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DRUGS

• Just after 2 a.m. today, a Centralia officer contacted a driver for a minor traffic violation at Harrison Avenue near Interstate 5, discovered he had a warrant and then located unspecified controlled substances on him, according to the Centralia Police Department. David D. Marrs, age 25, was booked into the Lewis County Jail,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

ON THE ROAD

• Officers responded a non-injury motorcycle versus vehicle accident at the 100 block of South Silver Street near the library in Centralia at about 8:50 p.m. on Friday.

• Two men were reportedly uninjured when their pickup truck ran off Interstate 5 about two miles south of Chehalis early this morning, striking a light post and the  guard rail. It happened in the southbound lanes near the Labree Road interchange just before 7 a.m. today, according to the Washington State Patrol. The investigating trooper reports Jose R. Garcia-Roberto, 23, from Lakewood, and Jose D. Jimenez-Garcia, 28, from Kent, ran off into a field in the area . A police dog apprehended them, according to the state patrol. The 2001 Ford F150 pickup was described as totaled. Troopers were investigating the incident for possible driving under the influence, hit and run and obstructing, according to the state patrol.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for hit and run, collision on city street, collision on Interstate 5 … and more.