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BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police responded about 3:15 p.m. yesterday to a residential burglary on the 900 block of North Pearl Street. A window was broken out and “miscellaneous” items were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.

THEFT

• Centralia police were called about 11:35 p.m. yesterday regarding several items taken over the weekend from a store on the 1200 block of Lum Road. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• A 27-year-old Winlock man was arrested yesterday for misdemeanor theft for allegedly stealing $61.86 worth of soda during the past year from a business on the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis. Andrew W. Freeman was then released, pending court, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called about 7 p.m. yesterday after an iPhone was stolen from a vehicle in the parking lot at Safeway. Its owner said she left the windows rolled down while she went inside because she had dogs in the car, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The phone turned up with a 16-year-old Chehalis resident who said he found it, but he was arrested for second-degree theft, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said.

LOST AND FOUND

• Police were called about 12:50 p.m. yesterday to Southwest Fourth Street near McFadden Avenue where a citizen had discovered a small plastic bag containing a white substance. The item will be destroyed, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 29-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when contacted by law enforcement officers near the Chehalis Police Department on Park Street and Washington Avenue yesterday afternoon. In his pocket was found a crystal substance that field-tested positive for meth, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Andrew T. Field was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• An 18-year-old resident was apparently caught smoking marijuana in public yesterday, in  Washington Park in Centralia and was arrested. Andrew P. Gastfield was then released following  the morning time contact with an officer, according to the Centralia Police Department.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrest for violation of protection order; responses for alarms, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, small dog left inside a parked car at K-Mart, complaint of loud music … and more.

Updated at 5:10 p.m.

NASTY NEIGHBOR

• An intoxicated 54-year-old Morton man was arrested last night for for reportedly threatening his neighbor, saying he was going to tear out his mailbox and calling him the N word, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.  A deputy called about 9:45 p.m. to the 700 block of Davis Lake Road learned the two had known each other for quite a long time and it’s not clear why Steven C. Richart was upset, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for misdemeanor harassment.

BURGLARY WINLOCK

• Someone broke through a back door at a home on the 2300 block of Highway 603 near Winlock yesterday between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and stole about $3,000 worth of valuables including several cameras, jewelry and cash, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

THEFT ONALASKA

• A deputy took a report yesterday from the 400 block of Shanklin Road in Onalaska of roughly $4,500 worth of belongings being stolen from where they were being stored inside an enclosed car hauler. It happened sometime since June 5, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the items missing are a laptop computer, a Hoyt compound bow and its accessories, a weed eater, binoculars and stereo components, according to the sheriff’s office.

AUTO THEFT

• A 1996 Ford F350 crew cab was reported stolen yesterday morning from the 100 block of Gershick Road in Silver Creek and turned up later in the day wrecked, about four miles up a logging road outside Mossyrock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is $4,000, according to the sheriff’s office.

• An employee’s 1995 Mercury Tracer discovered missing from Wal-Mart’s parking lot about 11:30 p.m. Monday was found yesterday at an apartment complex  on Southwest Chehalis Avenue, according to police. Arrested for vehicle theft was Diana S. Stephens, 60, of Chehalis, according to police. The car was returned to the victim, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

GREEN HILL SCHOOL

• A 19-year-old student-inmate at Green Hill School in Chehalis is facing a possible charge of custodial assault after allegedly striking a staff member on the arm and in the back of the head yesterday, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

DRUGS

• A 34-year-old Winlock woman was arrested for possession of methamphetamine following a traffic stop about 9 p.m. on Monday near North National Avenue and Median Street in Chehalis. An officer found a small plastic bag of suspected methamphetamine and Sarah A. Caton was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

FIRE

• Lewis County Fire District 6 was called about 4:15 p.m. yesterday to a tractor and hay baler on fire on the 2100 block of South Schueber Road outside Chehalis. It was extinguished.

FROM THE COURTHOUSE

• A 36-year-old Centralia area man was sentenced today to a term of a little more than 16 years and as long as life after pleading guilty to the sexual abuse of a young relative. He turned himself in in January after the girl told her mother of incidents that took place when she was 12 years old, during the year that ended in September of 2012. Before his sentence was handed down in Lewis County Superior Court, Rodney J. Teitzel Jr. turned to the mother in the courtroom and said he’d failed at the most important thing he ever had to do right. The now-teenager was not present as she has moved away, but a note from her was read aloud, in which she said she didn’t know if or when she might ever forgive him. “Because of you, she is a shadow of her former self,” Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Joely O’Rourke said, reading a statement from the mother. Charging documents stated the girl told a detective of times Teitzel put his fingers inside her, under the guise of checking between her legs because the area was red. He is convicted of three counts of second-degree rape of a child. Judge James Lawler said the agreed upon recommendation from the two lawyers was clearly appropriate. Lawler ordered that if or when Teitzel is released from prison, he would be under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections for the rest of his life.

WRECK

• A 66-year-old Winlock man did not see a stop sign and collided with another vehicle at the 4300 block of Jackson Highway about 11:30 a.m. yesterday. He was transported to the hospital with minor injuries, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarms, suspicious circumstances, hit and run, kids in a parking lot drinking beer; complaints of  fireworks … and more.