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MAN KILLED IN COLLISION NEAR TOLEDO

• One person is dead and another was airlifted after a single-vehicle wreck early yesterday morning near the 700 block of Tucker Road north of Toledo. Firefighters and medics responded about 3:25 a.m. after a caller to 911 reported hearing the sound of a collision and screaming, according to Lewis County Fire District 2. Responders found a female sitting on the shoulder of the roadway and a male deceased behind the wheel, Fire Chief Grant Wiltbank said. It appeared he lost control of the vehicle, went off the road and struck some trees, Wiltbank said. The passenger was sent to the trauma center at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver to be evaluated, Wiltbank said. The man’s name has not yet been released, as the Lewis County Coroner’s Office is waiting for positive identification and notification to his family, Coroner Warren McLeod said this morning. The driver was a 42-year-old Morton resident. His Toyota Corolla station wagon was described as a total loss.

DRUGS

• A 19-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for being a minor in possession of marijuana early yesterday morning. Eric J. Stevens was booked into the Lewis County Jail following contact with an officer about 5 a.m. at the 1200 block of Mellen Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Centralia police were looking for a white Ford F-150-style pickup truck and a yellow Saturn following a report of a window being broken out of a building on the 200 block of West Maple Street in Centralia just before midnight on Friday.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for collisions on city streets … and more.

SNEAKY BURGLAR

• Centralia police were called to a residential burglary about 9 a.m. yesterday at the 500 block of West Fourth Street. There was no forced entry and it appeared someone entered during the night through an unlocked door,  according to the Centralia Police Department. Among the missing were a television and an Xbox, according to police.

FRAUD

• Police took a report from the 2500 block of Eureka Avenue yesterday that an unknown subject withdrew more than $700 from a victim’s bank account by using just a “routing number”. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

BIG SHOPLIFT

• Centralia police yesterday evening arrested two individuals for organized retail theft after they allegedly shoplifted together from multiple stores at the Centralia Outlets. Aaron E. Kyllonen, 27 of Longview, and Kinzy R. Murray, 19, of Kelso, were booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

SELLING SOMEBODY ELSE’S STUFF

• Centralia police suspect a 44-year-old Centralia man rented a television from a business on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue and then days later sold it to a pawn shop in Chehalis. The case was referred yesterday to prosecutors to evaluate for a theft charge, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR FIRE

• Firefighters were called just after 12 noon yesterday to Burger King on Harrison Avenue where a man who’d just purchased a “very nice, old” Saab two hours earlier and was headed home stopped for lunch. He’d noticed smoke coming from the engine, which was on fire, according to Riverside Fire Authority. The flames and damage were contained to the upper part of the motor, Fire Capt. Casey McCarthy said.

COLLISIONS

• A sport utility vehicle and a Honda car collided when one turned in front of the other at Borst Avenue and North Schueber Road in Centralia yesterday. Police and aid called about 2:40 p.m. say three people were hospitalized with minor injuries and one driver was cited for failing to yield the right of way following the T-bone type accident.

• Two young people from Napavine were hospitalized after a near T-bone accident on state Route 506 near Vader yesterday that pretty much took off the front of their car. Firefighters and troopers called just before 11 a.m. to the scene about a quarter mile west of Interstate 5 found both the compact car and pickup truck were westbound when Jordyn M. Diamond, 18, began to make a U-turn in her Jetta without yielding to the truck, according to the  Washington State Patrol. With just a half a second difference in time, it would have ended much differently, Lewis County Fire District 2 Chief Grant Wiltbank said. “Both occupants, literally, they’re lucky to be alive,” Wiltbank said. The Ford F-1 pickup driven by Jerry D. Larson, 75, of Castle Rock, sustained extensive damage but he reportedly was was not injured. Diamond and her passenger, Jesse M. Belfield, 20, were transported to Providence Centralia Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to responders. The Jetta was impounded and Diamond was issued a ticket for failing to yield, according to the state patrol

AND MORE

Later … I need some dinner now.

A 2001 Volkswagen Jetta after it fails to yield on a 50 mph road / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 2