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Updated at 6:15 p.m.

FINGER GUN GETS OFFICER’S ATTENTION

• A 33-year-old Centralia man ended up in jail after he was walking along the 1600 block of Kresky Avenue just before 5 o’clock this morning and reportedly pointed his finger at a passing police car and made a trigger-pulling gesture. Officer Ruben Ramirez stopped to speak with the man who at one point tried to walk away and when Ramirez grabbed his arm, the man grabbed Ramirez’s arm and wouldn’t let go according to the Centralia Police Department. Other officers arrived and Jeremy J. Phillips was taken into custody, Officer John Panco said. Nobody was hurt, but Phillips was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault, Panco said. He had been drinking, Panco said, although he wasn’t sure how much.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ARRESTED

• A student at W.F. West High School in Chehalis was arrested yesterday in connection with an attempt to steal a winch from the school shop and an alleged threat made to a fellow student he was trying to get to help him. Chehalis police were called to Southwest 16th Street where they were advised of the incident and told that 19-year-old Brady A. Jenkins was being expelled, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Jenkins was arrested at his home in Pe Ell and booked into the Lewis County Jail for felony harassment and theft, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

ANGRY CLIENT

• Chehalis police responded to the Lewis County Mall yesterday after a phone caller to the veterans clinic said not to hang up and threatened they would blow the person’s f****** head off, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The line disconnected and there was no way to learn who had called, or why they were upset, police said.

BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police were called at noon yesterday to a home on the 1400 block of Logan Street about a burglary in which two computers and some jewelry were stolen.

• Centralia police were called about 10:15 p.m. yesterday to the 500 block of West Cherry Street in Centralia where someone had kicked in the back door to a home. It’s unknown if anything was missing,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Chehalis police were told yesterday of a vehicle prowl which had reportedly occurred days earlier at the 1300 block of Louisiana Avenue. A wallet was missing from the vehicle which had been left unlocked, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

UNRULY PATIENT

• A 43-year-old woman was cited for fourth-degree assault and then released after an incident when the fire department was called about 7:50 p.m. yesterday to the 400 block of South Pearl Street. Someone there had called 911 for aid because they felt Brenda V. Jones-Gonzalez was in some kind of medical distress and the fire department asked police to come for what was described as an out-of-control female, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say that for no apparent reason, Jones-Gonzalez grabbed another female there by the throat and hair, Panco said. “She was having some issue of some type,” Panco said.

WRECKS

• A 38-year-old Napavine man was cited for traveling too fast when his log truck trailer tipped onto its side as he was making a left turn to head north on Interstate 5 in Chehalis yesterday. Troopers called at 1 p.m. to the onramp at Main Street noted Jason L. Dunn was uninjured and the onramp was blocked for a time. The loaded trailer was damaged, but the truck was able to be driven from the scene, according to the Washington State Patrol.

• Troopers concluded an unsafe lane change started the multiple vehicle collision on Interstate 5 in Centralia yesterday that left a sport utility vehicle straddling the concrete center barrier and a minor injury to another motorist who rear-ended a car that stopped short of the scene. Troopers called about 1:20 p.m. said the wreckage just beyond the northbound onramp at Harrison Avenue happened when a vehicle entering the freeway swerved to miss another vehicle and then shoved a GMC Yukon onto the divider. The Washington State Patrol reports four vehicles were involved but only the SUV had to be towed. It was totaled, according to the state patrol. One person with shoulder and knee pain was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Once the SUV was taken away, southbound traffic was stopped for a time while a large front end loader shoved the jersey barrier back where it belonged, according to the fire department.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, violation of no contact order; responses for disputes, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft, collision on city streets, report a child smacked another child in the face, an individual who got a “pop up” on their computer that prevented access to files unless they paid $500 … and more.

Traffic moved slowly in both directions after four vehicles wrecked on Interstate 5 in Centralia. / Courtesy photo by Krystin-Hernandez

Updated at 8:31 p.m.

BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SLOW MOVING SERVICE ANIMAL

• Centralia police were called just before 8 p.m. yesterday about a 30-pound pet turtle believed to have been stolen from the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue, just north of Reynolds Avenue. Its owner said he was visiting a friend at work and put the animal outside in the grass about 6:30 p.m. but went back out at 7 o’clock and it was gone, according to police. The 28-year-old Chehalis man said there was no way it could have escaped, Officer John Panco said. It’s actually a Desert Sulcata tortoise, a female, and is a service animal, providing emotional support, according to Panco.

POLICE: TALL TALE LANDS WOMAN IN JAIL

• A woman who reported to police on Sunday night that she was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of Rite Aid in Centralia was arrested yesterday for allegedly making up the story when she didn’t have money for rent. Centralia police say Kimberly S. Jones, 47, had gambled away her rent money at the casino. Jones called 911 about 11:20 p.m. on Sunday and an officer interviewed her at her home, according to the Centralia Police Department. She said a male dressed in dark clothing, wearing a hoodie sweatshirt, stole $600 from her, but she wasn’t able to describe the weapon or offer some other details, Officer John Panco said. An officer was able to view some security video of the victim and confronted her about the story, Panco said. Jones was then booked into the Lewis County Jail last night for false reporting, he said.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• A 37-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault yesterday after police were called about 6:30 p.m. to a home on Northwest Lafayette Street, where his girlfriend said he’d threatened to kill her, slammed her head against the floor and choked her. They had been arguing, police said. The woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and Keith J. Rose was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CROSSWALK RAGE

• Police were called about 9:25 a.m. yesterday to the intersection at the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis after a pedestrian called 911 to say he was crossing the street when a motorist rolled down his window and punched him in the face. It wasn’t clear, or confirmed, if that really happened, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

ARREST FOLLOWS SHOOTING COMPLAINT

• A 41-year-old rural Chehalis resident was arrested yesterday when a neighbor complained he was firing a high-powered rifle from his front porch toward Chilvers Road. A deputy noted he’d been warned about it in the past, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened just after 5 p.m. along the 200 block of Chilvers, according to the sheriff’s office. The 31-year-old neighbor told a deputy he, his wife and small child were in their backyard when Robert A. Brown began firing his gun, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Brown was arrested for reckless endangerment and booked into the Lewis County Jail, she said.

BAD IDEA

• A Chehalis man was arrested for misdemeanor assault after he allegedly forcibly tried to evict a 26-year-old woman from her apartment on Sunday evening. Police called just before 7 p.m. to the 1300 block of Northwest Airport Road learned the woman lived there with her boyfriend, but returned home to find the locks changed. She had some kids help her get inside and then the boyfriend’s father who said he was the landlord showed up and tried to remove her, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Robert E. Stocking, 64, of Chehalis was arrested for fourth-degree assault and then was released pending a court hearing, according to police.

BREAK-IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police took a report about 12:30 p.m. yesterday from the 200 block of Inglenook Drive after a resident returned home to discover someone had forced their way inside and stolen a laptop computer and jewelry. The investigation is ongoing,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

NOT STOLEN AUTO

• Chehalis police were called about 12:45 a.m. today about a car stolen from the 300 block of Southwest Third Street. The car came back by about 3 a.m. and its owner may have forgotten she’d given someone permission to use it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

VEHICLE PROWL

• An iPad, a laptop computer and various banking documents were among the belongings stolen from an individual’s vehicle while parked at the Lewis County Mall, according to a report made to police about 5:10 p.m. on Sunday.

• Someone stole assorted tools and a vehicle battery from the bed of a truck on the 1400 block of Southwest Mills Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police on Sunday morning.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police took a report that someone threw a rock through the large front window at the laundry business on the 800 block of South Market Boulevard on Saturday morning.

DRUNK DRIVING

• A 28-year-old Toledo man was arrested for driving under the influence after he was pulled over in part for traveling about 10 mph along North National Avenue in Chehalis and then as an officer went to contact him, didn’t realize his car was in reverse and backed into the police car. It happened about 11:40 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said the initial breath test for Matias Lopez-Lucas came back more than three times the legal limit and the test at the jail showed he was almost four times over the limit. There was no damage to the patrol vehicle and the damage to the man’s car was minimal, Wilson said.

WRECKS

• An 81-year-old Chehalis motorist said she must have fallen asleep when her car left the roadway, crossed the oncoming lane, went into a yard, striking a power pole and a fire hydrant along the way yesterday afternoon. Deputies called about 3:30 p.m. to the 1800 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis learned the woman had a head and neck injury but declined aid, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Her Toyota Camry sustained some front end damage, the sheriff’s office said.

• The trailer frame broke as a log truck driver was making a left turn off of Harrison Avenue onto Kuper Road about 8:40 a.m. yesterday, causing the load to partially separate and pulling down power lines. Deputies, personnel from Lewis County Public Works and from Lewis County PUD responded to the morning incident in north Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The driver was a 47-year-old Montesano man; damaged was a utility pole and a section of fence, according to the sheriff’s office.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarms, disputes, suspicious circumstances, collision on city streets, questions about custody issue, complaint of unmowed neighbor’s lawn, a report an inmate spit on staff at Green Hill School, 15-year-old girl taking her mother’s Ford Explorer without permission, a 4-year-old child reported missing who turned up asleep on her bed, a request for help because a stray cat got inside a clothing store, “sprayed everything” and was still hiding … and more.

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CORRECTION: This has been updated to reflect the correct age for Kimberly S. Jones. Centralia police provided erroneous information that she was much older than 47.

Updated at 6:56 p.m.

SHOTGUN SHELL POWERED MOLE TRAP MISFIRES

• A man in his early 70s was airlifted after a mishap with a high-powered mole trap today. Deputies and firefighters were called about 4:25 p.m. to the 400 block of Collins Road just outside Toledo where the patient was found with a serious hand injury, according to Lewis County Fire District 2. “He was setting a mole trap utilizing a 12-gauge shotgun shell and it accidentally discharged,” Fire Chief Grant Wiltbank said. A woman friend and a retired firefighter from across the street were helping the man when the fire department arrived, Wiltbank said. He was transported by ambulance to the Toledo Airport and was to be flown to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Wiltbank said

COMMERCIAL THEFT

• A 36-year-old Chehalis man was arrested yesterday in connection with approximately $100,000 worth of cell phones, clothing and DVDs stolen from the UPS distribution center on Hamilton Road last year. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this morning said the arrest for first-degree theft came in the ongoing investigation when deputies learned information that William M. Eaton was involved in the thefts that took place between last August and November. Eaton was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office. A part-time employee was arrested in December, Roland E. Camps, 40, from Winlock, who was accused of stealing and re-selling thousands of dollars worth of cell phones and other merchandise, according to the sheriff’s office.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY MORTON

• Morton police were called to the 800 block of Overlook Drive about 2:10 a.m. yesterday after a resident arrived home to find at least two rooms were ransacked. it wasn’t readily apparent if anything was stolen, according to the Morton Police Department. The case is under investigation.

TOLEDO BURGLARY

• A 24-year-old Toledo area man reported every room was ransacked at his home on the 400 block of Eadon Road and thousands of dollars worth of cash and rare coins including wheat pennies and silver dollars were missing. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said this morning the burglary occurred between 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and that someone had used a credit card to “swipe” the lock to the front door.

CENTRALIA BURGLARY

• Centralia police took a report of a burglary to a trailer at about 6 p.m. on Friday at the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue. Missing were medications and a small amount of money, according to the Centralia Police Department.

PACKWOOD CARGO TRAILER PROWL

• Sometime between 10 a.m. on Saturday and 7:30 yesterday morning someone stole numerous tools when they broke in to a cargo trailer parked at a construction site described as isolated on the 300 block of Skate Creek Road South near Packwood. Among the missing are two nail guns, two circular saws and a compressor, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss to the 59-year-old Packwood resident is more than $800, according to the sheriff’s office.

CENTRALIA BOAT PROWL

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a boat prowling, at the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive. Someone got onto the the water craft which was tied up to a dock and stole fishing poles, tackle boxes its battery, its motor and some other unspecified items,  according to the Centralia Police Department.

AUTO THEFT

• Police were called about 2:40 a.m. yesterday when a 1998 Honda Civic was stolen from the 100 block of West Maple Street in Centralia. Officers had a suspect in mind regarding the multi-colored hoodless car, according to the Centralia Police Department.

IT’S HASH OIL, SAYS BOY

• A 17-year-old Onalaska boy was returned to his mother but faces a possible drug charge after a traffic stop in which a deputy found two small containers with a black substance which the boy said was hash oil, he’d made himself after reading how in the Internet. The teen was pulled over just before 4 a.m. yesterday at the 1000 block of Long Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He didn’t have a driver’s license, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

VANDALISM

• Sometime after 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and before the following morning, someone keyed a 36-year-old Adna man’s vehicle in multiple places as it was parked at a friend’s on the 3000 block of Ives Road in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The damage is estimated at $2,000, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• A 37-year-old Winlock man was arrested after he allegedly used a drill bit to puncture his estranged wife’s tire, with a loss estimated at $650, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Corey Ming was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree malicious mischief, according to the sheriff’s office.

BRUSH FIRE

• Firefighters with West Regional Fire Authority joined personnel from the state Department of Natural Resources when a large slash pile caught fire in the Capitol Forest over the weekend. Crews worked yesterday morning assisting and DNR is investigation the incident in the southeast portion of the forest Chief Robert Scott said.

WEEKEND DRILL IMAGINES GUNMAN AT CHURCH

• Law enforcement officers practiced neutralizing threats and fire personnel practiced saving lives at Toledo First Baptist Church on Saturday as they trained together on responding to an “active shooter” situation, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. More than 70 individuals participated, including those role playing victims and eight local agencies, the sheriff’s office reports.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarms, disputes, suspicious circumstances, various vandalism, collision on city street, shoplifting and other misdemeanor theft, baby left alone in vehicle, dogs left alone in vehicle; complaints of too loud of music, cigarette butts tossed in parking lot … and more.

More tomorrow.

At Toledo First Baptist Church on Saturday. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Sheriff’s Office