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Updated at 3:10 p.m.

LOST AND FOUND ALERT

• Somebody lost a bunch of money at the Twin City Town Center and one honest citizen picked up what was left of it, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A 25-year-old Centralia woman called police about 2 p.m. yesterday to turn in cash that had been blowing around in the parking lot near Grocery Outlet at the 1300 block of Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis, according to police. She said she saw people picking up money and she was able to collect what remained, according to police. She also found an envelope in the lot marked with a dollar amount that it may have been in, Chehalis Police Department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. The difference in the amount she found and the number on the envelope is roughly $200, according to police. Bailey is hoping the owner can contact the office and describe the envelope and how much they lost so it can be returned.

BREAK-IN AT GAME STOP

• Chehalis police responded about 4:45 a.m. today to a burglary at the Game Stop store on the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue. Officers are investigating and don’t yet know exactly what is missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

ASSAULT

• Centralia police took a report about 2:15 p.m. yesterday from the 1400 block of Lewis Street where an individual was struck with a metal bar, allegedly by an acquaintance who left before officers arrived. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Two men were arrested for disorderly conduct following a fight at a bar on the 500 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis on Saturday night. An officer responding to the 8:40 p.m. call witnessed one of them strike the other in the face repeatedly, and the men were separated, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Stafford P. Horner, 48, of Arlington, said Phillip N. Spruell, 72, of Chehalis, hit him first, according to police. Neither wanted to pursue assault charges so they were issued their citations and then released, according to police. Both appeared to be intoxicated, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said.

THREAT OF ASSAULT

• A 36-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested last night for allegedly threatening to cut his ex-wife’s throat, in a phone call. A deputy responding about 10:15 p.m. to Cinebar to talk to the woman listened to the suspect call her names as he phoned twice while the deputy as there and she put him on speaker phone, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.  When the deputy went to the man’s home, he could see through the window and hear the man on the phone, yelling and cussing at the woman, according to the sheriff’s office. Shane C. Goin was booked into the Lewis County Jail for harassment, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• A 26-year-old man was arrested for harassment on Saturday after he allegedly threatened to use a computer monitor to break an employee’s nose at the drug and alcohol treatment center on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis. Anthony Balay Magana, from Grandview, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

UNDER INVESTIGATION

• Chehalis police took a report on Saturday morning about alleged sexual misconduct. The matter is still under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS AND THEFT

• A 30-year-old Winlock resident was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing two boxes of personal checks from her boyfriend’s mother’s bedroom and using them on five occasions to obtain $690. Deputies investigating were able to get video images on Friday from the Cedar Village IGA store showing their suspect cashing a stolen check and on Saturday made a traffic stop of a vehicle in which she was a passenger, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Lucia D. Spross was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail on an outstanding warrant, as well as 60 counts of second-degree theft and the case was referred for other possible charges such as forgery and third-degree theft, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Stacy Brown said Spross admitted also to a small baggie of suspected methamphetamine found in her purse.

AUTO THEFT

• A vehicle stolen from Longview turned up in Centralia yesterday, stripped and abandoned on the side of the road at the 200 block of Tilley Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Morton police called about 8:35 p.m. yesterday to the 600 block of Main Avenue ended up arresting 22-year-old Jacob E. Olson for second-degree vehicle prowl and trespass, according to the Morton Police Department. An individual said they’d seen Olson getting into a vehicle in the driveway, but he left, according to police.

DUI WRECK

• A 45-year-old Onalaska man was arrested for driving under the influence after a deputy responded about 7:15 p.m. yesterday to a single-vehicle collision into a ditch at the intersection of Middle Fork and Krueger roads in Onalaska. Roderick D. Johnson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, probation violation, driving under the influence; responses for alarms, disputes, suicide attempt, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor domestic assault, misdemeanor theft, collision on county road … and more.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police took a report about 8:20 a.m. yesterday of graffiti spray painted onto a building at the 1000 block of Mellen Street.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor  theft, collision on city street … and more.

FINN SAYS, ‘DON’T FUMBLE’

• Trooper Will Finn reminds football fans and others the state patrol will step up patrols this weekend, in an effort to eliminate DUI-related collisions. They will partner with county and city law enforcement agencies to remove impaired drivers from the roadways, in an effort to reach zero serious injury and all traffic fatalities by 2030, according to Finn. He advises people to be responsible, reminding it only takes a few minutes to make a plan that could prevent a tragedy with life-lasting impact. “Some good alternatives might be designating a sober driver, taking a taxi, calling a sober friend to drive or staying put until you are completely sober,” Finn states. The Washington State Insurance Commissioner joins the state patrol’s call to be extra careful tomorrow, citing some numbers from Nerd Wallet: The cost of a driving under the influence (DUI) ticket in Washington state ranges from $6,500 to more than $10,000, including fines, attorney’s fees, ignition interlock fees and insurance rate increases. Auto insurance may increase from $500 to $1,000 per year after a DUI conviction, according to Kreidler. Finn adds: It is important to remember, in Washington state, impaired driving is defined as:
• Driving while impaired by alcohol
• Driving under the influence of any drug, including marijuana
• Driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 percent or above

DOMESTIC DISPUTES

• Centralia police arrested a Portland man yesterday for unlawful imprisonment after he allegedly refused to let his passenger out of the vehicle as they were traveling in through Centralia. Officers were called just before noon to the area of South Gold and Floral streets about a couple walking down the street arguing, according to the Centralia Police Department. They were in town shopping and began to argue and at one point, he locked the vehicle’s door, Officer John Panco said. “Finally when he slowed almost to a stop, she was able to jump out,” Panco said. The man, 38-year-old Derek Gannon, parked and followed her, according to Panco. Gannon was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• A 27-year-old Toledo man who called 911 to say during an argument after he told his girlfriend to leave, she began knocking things over in the home, was subsequently arrested for second-degree assault. Deputies responding about 1 p.m. on Tuesday to the 200 block of Kangas Road however were told he slapped the 19-year-old, dragged her by her hair knocking items off the counter, choked her and even broke down a bathroom door when she locked herself in, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Her injuries and other evidence suggested Marcello Ruiz-Zueger was the primary aggressor, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• A 33-year-old Chehalis area man was arrested for second-degree assault following the events that transpired after his girlfriend told him to move out, including him allegedly putting her in a chokehold as well as wrapping her in a mattress and jumping on it as hard as he could. The pair are both mixed martial arts fighters, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called on Tuesday to the 29-year-old woman’s father’s home where she went for help learned  there were children in the house when it happened and the woman was able to get them outside and into a car, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Brown Stacy Brown said the deputy was told that Joseph R. Whearty at one point laid down on the ground behind her car tires, and as she managed to maneuver around him, he jumped on the car and punched its windshield, cracking it. Whearty was contacted and booked into the Lewis County Jail Brown said.

PURSE SNATCHING FOILED

• A 48-year-old Seattle man was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal an employee’s purse from a downtown Chehalis restaurant and pushed the cook who confronted him as he went out the back door. Officers called about 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday to the Royal Buffet on the 500 block of North Market had help from a police dog who tracked a suspect to an area off Prindle Street where he was hiding in or under a piece of equipment, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Shelton L. Hayes was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery, according to police.

BURGLARY AND THEFT

• Centralia police yesterday said they were investigating a report of a burglary at the 3200 block of Galvin Road in which cash, a debit card and gaming system were taken.

• Centralia police were called just before 11 a.m. yesterday to the 1000 block of Swanson Drive regarding fraud on an individual’s bank account, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police took a report of the theft of a door mat from the 1200 block of Mellen Street in Centralia on Tuesday morning.

CAR PROWL

• Someone smashed a vehicle’s window and stole a CD while it was parked at Steck Clinic on the 1200 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis sometime shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Someone threw an egg at a vehicle parked on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police last night.

• Chehalis police said yesterday they couldn’t place a value on a homemade lighted SeaHawks sign that someone smashed when they came onto a porch on Southwest Fifth Street the day before.

DRUGS

• An individual detained for shoplifting merchandise – including a cell phone cover and tweezers – from Wal-Mart overnight was arrested for possession of drugs. An officer responding about 1:50 a.m. to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue found suspected heroin, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Jeremy W. Schrader, 36, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• An officer was called to the 1800 block of Taylor Street yesterday about the theft of three pills, narcotics, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A traffic stop on U.S. Highway 12 in Glenoma for expired tabs on a camping trailer led to the seizure of 14 marijuana plants yesterday afternoon, and the vehicle, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers and deputies observed the potted plants, ranging in size from one to two feet tall and were granted a search warrant, according to the state patrol. Patrol spokesperson Trooper Will Finn said the driver, Shawn Adam Dickinson, 33, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony possession of marijuana and intent to manufacture marijuana after the approximately 2:40 p.m. stop. An individual with the same name was released from the jail a couple of hours later, according to online jail roster. Under the state’s ever changing laws, recreational pot users may not grow their own, according to Finn. At the same time, a qualified medical marijuana patient may grow a limited amount for medicinal use, under certain conditions, according to Finn. Those patients may grow up to 15 plants and possess up to 24 ounces of medical marijuana, Finn says.

OTHER

• Chehalis police were called about midnight on Tuesday to Southwest Newaukum Avenue to a report of a hysterical naked woman who ran through someone’s yard. Officers and a police dog that was brought out to help search the area could not locate the woman, according to the Chehalis Police Department. They were able to get a pretty good idea of where she may belong, but their knock on the door of that residence went unanswered, according to police.

• A 40-year-old motorist was hospitalized with minor injuries after she took out a steel gate, clipped a garage and came to rest in the front yard of a residence at one of the 90 degree turns on Rice Road outside of Chehalis yesterday morning. Deputies and a police dog responded after the approximately 4:15 a.m. wreck, as the woman said she was driving fast because she’d just discovered there were two males behind her inside her vehicle, but they ran off, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She said she was headed from home to get gas at Interstate Avenue and when she exited the freeway, she saw two bald heads behind her, according to the sheriff’s office. The woman was unable to provide more of a description and said they didn’t say anything to her the entire time, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. A search of the area, an examination of the rear of her BMW sport utility vehicle and a track by the K-9 turned up nothing to indicate there had been any passengers, Brown said. The deputy found inconsistencies in the situation that led to calling off the search. The Chehalis woman was cited for wheels off the roadway, according to Brown.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespass, shoplifting, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, misdemeanor theft, unruly bar patron, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, collision on county road … and more.