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DETECTIVES LOOKING FOR WITNESSES OF ASSAULT OUTSIDE BAR

• Centralia police are investigating an incident in which a 27-year-old Centralia man was attacked last night by several people outside the Hub Tavern on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue. Police were called at 1:25 a.m. by a family member who said the victim was taken over to Providence Centralia Hospital. He was contacted there by an officer as he was being transferred to another hospital, up north, Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. Little information was gained at the time as the incident had occurred a couple of hours earlier and witnesses were no longer around, Reichert said. The victim was said not to know who it was that assaulted him, according to Reichert. Detectives are looking into it, he said.

FAMILY DISPUTE

• Deputies responded about 9:15 p.m. yesterday to the 300 block of Tauscher Road near Onalaska regarding a 21-year-old man who had been drinking, who allegedly threatened family members, threatened to harm himself and also to harm others, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Travis L. Oshane reportedly punched his stepfather in the head multiple times but fled before law enforcement arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. A police dog was brought in and Oshane was located and booked into the Lewis County Jail for fourth-degree assault, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown reports.

OUTBUILDING BURGLARY

• A 68-year-old Cinebar getting ready for a hunting trip called 911 after discovering several items missing from his shop, including camo jackets, about five gallons of fuel and a saw. A deputy learned the theft at the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road occurred sometime between Sunday and Wednesday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is about $675, according to the sheriff’s office.

FRAUD

• An officer was called to Centralia Municipal Court about 11:30 a.m. yesterday regarding an allegedly forged document presented to the court. Further details were not available as the incident is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police were called to the 3200 block of Elizabeth Court yesterday to take a report of the unauthorized used of credit card.

BENCH MISSING

• Someone stole a white wooden garden bench from in front of a home on the 400 block of North Buckner Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday evening.

THEFT OF WHIPPED CREAM

• A 32-year-old man with a Seattle address was arrested yesterday evening after he reportedly seen ingesting or huffing from two cans of whipped cream inside Wal-Mart and then selected two shirts and a black hat off racks and put them on. He told an officer responding about 6 p.m. he was just trying the items on, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Noah M. Escobar smelled of intoxicants and because he had been formally trespassed from the store on Louisiana Avenue in the past, was arrested for second-degree burglary, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

LOST AND FOUND

• A smart phone was turned onto the Centralia Police Department yesterday after being found on the 500 block of South Washington Avenue.

COLLISION

• A 36-year-old Centralia man was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital last night after the vehicle in which he was a passenger ran off U.S. Highway 12 near Gershick Road and struck a ditch. Troopers called about 10:35 p.m. to the scene about five miles west of Mossyrock report the driver, Irvin J. Weiher, 39, of Chehalis, was unhurt. Weiher had been traveling westbound when he fell asleep, according to the Washington State Patrol. His 2013 Ford F150 pickup was impounded. He was to be arrested for second-degree negligent driving, according to the state patrol. The injuries to Michael B. Kane were unspecified. Both had been wearing seat belts, the investigating trooper reports.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, disorderly person, hit and run, protection order violation, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, request for help getting a small possum out of a woman’s laundry room … and more.

POLICE: INSIDER THEFT FROM SMALL BUSINESS

• A former bookkeeper was arrested yesterday for first-degree theft following an investigation that began this summer after a report from a concrete business with locations in Chehalis and Napavine. Chehalis police detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said police were contacted by the owner of Apex Mobile Mix on July 27. After various financial records were gathered, Wilson asked Angela D. Sawyer to come in the police department to talk with him. She showed up yesterday, but declined to be interviewed, he said. “She was working for the company and over the last two years is alleged to have taken thousands of dollars,” Wilson said. More than $50,000 is missing, he said. Sawyer, 39, was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

BURGLARY UNCOVERED

• Centralia police are investigating a burglary to a home on the 300 block of L Street. it came to the attention of police during another investigation and a person of interest has been identified, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 11:30 a.m. yesterday regarding a 1991 Honda stolen from an apartment complex on the 1000 block of North Schueber Road. It has a license plate reading AND 1194, according to the Centralia Police Department.

RESISTING ARREST

• A 27-year-old Olympia man was arrested yesterday evening for allegedly being uncooperative, trying to leave and trying to fight off officers’ attempts to detain him following a call to the Centralia Outlets at the 1300 block of Lum Road regarding a suspicious person trying to get into a vehicle. Kenneth J. Zawadzinski was booked into the Lewis County Jail  for obstructing and resisting arrest, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PERILS OF GUTTER CLEANING

• A 58-year-old Chehalis area man called 911 yesterday evening after he looked out his second story window and saw a stranger looking back at him. The stranger, a 38-year-old from Carter Lake, Iowa passing through on his way to Portland had spotted a ladder and rope against the side of the home on the 2300 block of Jackson Highway and thought it looked inviting, like a “hippie trail, so he climbed up it, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They talked, the stranger asked if he could exit through the home instead of going back down the ladder and was escorted out by the resident, the sheriff’s office reports. On the way out, he asked for a beer, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The owner had been using the ladder earlier to clean out his gutters, according to Brown. Deputies arriving after the approximately 7 p.m. incident arrested Anthony E. Kies for burglary and booked him into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors declined to charge Kies with burglary and he is expected to be seen in Lewis County District Court for a lesser charge.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, disorderly person, runaway child, suspicious circumstances, report of attempted fraud by phone, collision on city street, car versus deer on county road … and more.

Updated at 6:15 p.m.

COLLISION

• A 63-year-old man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after he wrecked his scooter-type motorcycle late yesterday afternoon along the 3500 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia. Responders called just after 5 p.m. found the man from Lake Tapps was wearing a half-helmet which may have come off and he had serious facial injuries and a possible head injury. It happened when he attempted a left-hand turn, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. His 2007 Yamaha XC50 had only minor damage, the sheriff’s office reports.

VEHICLE VERSUS PEDESTRIAN

• A woman was hospitalized after she was struck at a crosswalk in downtown Centralia by a small pickup truck today. Firefighters called at noon to South Tower Avenue at Cherry Street found her conscious but with suspected internal injuries, according to Riverside Fire Authority. She was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to Capt. Scott Weinert.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• The former Onalaska volunteer firefighter and part time substitute school bus driver was sentenced today to life in prison with a minimum of just over three years in connection with allegations of sexual abuse of a teenage relative. Richard L. Crumbliss, 44, was arrested in April and has remained held in the Lewis County Jail. Crumbliss in August admitted no wrong doing when he made a so-called Alford plea of guilt to second-degree assault with sexual motivation and second-degree child molestation. His lawyer David Arcuri said the “indeterminate” sentence means Crumbliss could be released after 37 months, or even sooner with good time. But if or when he does get out, he will be under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections for the rest of his life, so if he ever fails to abide by DOC conditions, he could be sent back to prison, Lewis County Superior Court Judge Richard Brosey said during this morning’s hearing. Crumbliss would be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and would not be allowed to ever go where children congregate, according to Arcuri. Nothing under criminal law would prevent him from working again as firefighter-EMT, although since Crumbliss didn’t respond to the July temporary suspension of his EMT license by the state – stemming from the criminal allegations – the state Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System Program earlier this month imposed a 15-year suspension of his license.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, drunk teenager; responses for dispute, suspicious circumstances, suspected protection order violation, collisions on city streets, possibly suicidal individuals, misdemeanor theft such as a stolen shopping cart, request for assistance dealing with an elderly family member who insisted on going to Walgreens to deal with collecting money she’d been told she won  … and more.

BREAK-INS AROUND CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called about 11 a.m. yesterday to another shed burglary, this one on the 700 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue. Sometime during the night someone got inside the unlocked structure and left with drills, speaker, an amplifier and other items, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Someone shattered the glass front doors to a vacant convenience store on the 3300 block of Jackson Highway outside Chehalis, according to a report made yesterday to the Lewis County Sheriff’s office. The damage is estimated at $1,000.

• A deputy was called yesterday to the 100 block of Carter Lane outside Chehalis where someone had kicked in the entry door to a shop building. Nothing was missing, but the damage is about $200, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

VEHICLE THEFT

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that a 1997 Nissan pickup was stolen from the 200 block of Mandy Road near Toledo sometime on Saturday or Sunday. The 54-year-old owner described the vehicle as white with blue stripes and worth about $2,500, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A pickup truck belonging to the county and stolen from the the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds last month turned up yesterday abandoned on the 100 block of August Road in Cinebar. The Chevrolet S10 with a broken out back window was valued at $500, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

MARIJUANA PIPE SEIZED FROM GRADE SCHOOLER

• Police were called to Olympic Elementary School in Chehalis yesterday after a teacher was notified a fourth grader had been showing around a possible marijuana pipe. That’s what it turned out to be and the item was confiscated, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There was nothing to indicate the child had used it; he said a ninth grader gave it to him, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. It’s unlikely any criminal offense would be pursued, because of the boy’s young age, according to Wilson.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for dispute, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets, misdemeanor theft such as mountain bikes stolen from a front porch  … and more.

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CORRECTION: This post has been updated to reflect the correct grade school where Chehalis police were called about a student with a pipe.