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JUDGE SENDS MAN TO JAIL FOR APPEARING IN COURT INTOXICATED

• A 60-year-old Centralia man who reportedly came to court drunk yesterday morning after twice being told by a judge to return to court sober was cited by a judge for contempt and taken to jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. Steven G. Thurman was booked into the Lewis County Jail after police summoned to Centralia Municipal Court just after 8 a.m. administered a portable breath test, according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert.

BAD TOUCHING

• A 52-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly propositioned another man in Borst Park in Centralia and grabbed him between the legs. The 25-year-old victim offered to break the man’s hand and called 911, according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert said. Steven D. Koreis was booked into the Lewis County Jail for fourth-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was released yesterday afternoon.

VEHICLE THEFT

• A 78-year-old woman’s car was stolen from a church parking lot yesterday at the 2300 block of Sandra Avenue sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. A deputy called to the Centralia Bible Evangelical Free Church was told she may have left her keys hanging in the church door when she arrived, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Missing is a dark gray 1996 Saturn wagon, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A deputy took a report yesterday of a red 1993 Chevrolet pickup truck stolen from the 3900 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia on Friday between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.  It was a work truck parked at an employee’s home and belonging to a reforestation company, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

TROUSERS AND SHIRT TAKEN

• A 22-year-old Centralia man who allegedly stole a pair of pants and shirt from relatives and returned them to the store for cash was arrested late yesterday for trafficking in stolen property. Travis Amburgy was arrested also for possession of methamphetamine in connection with a call just before 6 p.m. to the 1900 block of Van Wormer Street in Centralia,  according to the Centralia Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.

WRECK

• A 16-year-old driver who said he swerved to miss a deer along a curve and wrecked his 2001 Ford Explorer suffered abrasions on his neck and chest , the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said this morning. The accident on the 500 block of Logan Hill Road about noon time on Monday in Chehalis left the truck with major damage, according to the sheriff’s office.

POLICE: MAN FIGHTS TO STAY OUT OF PRISON

• A 20-year-old Centralia man is facing a potential robbery charge after he allegedly used physical force in the course of stealing something late yesterday morning. Police called just before noon to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue were told Galen R. Whitmire shoplifted an $8 box of facial wipes from a grocery store and when two security personnel chased and tackled him, he fought back, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police Sgt. Carl Buster said Whitmore is facing 42 months in prison for an unrelated situation and a warrant had been issued for his arrest. Injuries to all involved were limited to scrapes, according to Buster. Whitmore was arrested and booked  yesterday into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery. In late March, Whitmire was arrested for multiple offenses after he reportedly sped away from a police car and then crashed into two vehicles, fled on foot and was  subsequently found by a police dog hiding in some bushes along Long Road in Centralia. He has a history of being captured by both of Centralia’s two police dogs, Buster said.

STRANGER CUTS TEEN WITH NEEDLE

• Chehalis police were called about 9:30 p.m. yesterday after three teenage boys said they were walking through Penny Playground when they were confronted by a person wearing dark clothing who stabbed one of them with a needle or knife in the finger, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Further details were not readily available.

MAN ARRESTED FOR BITING, CHOKING GIRLFRIEND

• A 34-year-old man police were looking for after an early Sunday morning domestic assault at the 300 block of North Diamond Street in Centralia was arrested about 10:40 p.m. last night back at his girlfriend’s home, according to the Centralia Police Department. CJ Boynton, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault because he allegedly choked his 37-year-old girlfriend leaving bruises on her neck and bit her fingers, according to Sgt. Carl Buster. The case is being referred by prosecutors to municipal court for a misdemeanor crime instead of a felony.

THEFT

• A pry bar found at the scene of an attempted burglary yesterday evening near Centralia is being processed for fingerprints, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called to the Galvin School on the 100 block of Joppish Road was told someone tried to pry open a door on a tool shed and stole items from a scrap pile, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Missing is an industrial heat pump and a pressure pump, sometime since Saturday evening, Brown said. The loss is estimated at $605.

• Somebody stole two propane tanks, two pictures, a  metal table and a pair of chairs from a residence on the 100 block of Nancy Lane in Centralia, according to a report made yesterday afternoon. The 31-year-old victim said someone got inside her home sometime since June 1, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. There was no sign of forced entry, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

• Morton police are investigating the theft of items from a storage shed on the 300 block of Division Avenue.

WE CAN’T HELP YOU

• An individual from Southwest Chehalis Avenue in Chehalis called 911 on Friday afternoon saying he wanted to talk to an officer because although his chickens won at the fair last year, nobody will buy his eggs. He wanted to take someone to court, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Further details were no readily available as no report was written. It was labeled a civil issue, police said.

OVER THE LIMIT

• A 41-year-old man caught by police with 43 fish in Gus Backstrom Park in Morton on Friday evening was cited for first-degree unlawful recreational fishing. Carmelo Ginez Tecpil is from Lakewood, according to the Morton Police Department.

EMPLOYEE FILES STOLEN FROM CENTRALIA BUSINESS

• Someone got into a safe at a business on the 2800 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia and stole items including a computer hard drive containing personnel information of more than 100 present and past employees, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The owner arriving to the Zaldivar Forestry Corporation about 4:30 a.m. on Saturday found the door to the office and shop kicked in, according to sheriff’s office. Also missing is a welder, a cutting torch and a Honda off-road vehicle, according to  Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The loss is estimated at $5,900, according to Brown. There was evidence left at the scene and it is being “processed,” Brown said.

DRUGS

• A 41-year-old Lacey man was arrested overnight when a search of his vehicle turned up scales, empty baggies and suspected methamphetamine, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Jason A. Juneau was stopped by officers about 1 a.m. today at the 500 block of Northwest Pacific Avenue in Chehalis near a tavern because of a defective exhaust system and no splash guards on his vehicle, according to police. He had a warrant with nationwide extradition requested related to drug possession, Officer Linda Bailey said. So a police dog sniffed around and Juneau’s vehicle was impounded and searched, Bailey said.  A hypodermic needle was found as well, she said. Juneau was booked into the Lewis County jail for possession of methamphetamine, according to Bailey.

• A 41-year-old was arrested for possession of methamphetamine about 11:40 p.m. yesterday after contact with a police officer at South Diamond and East Chestnut streets in Centralia. Shane S. Poeschl was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

DOMESTIC INCIDENTS

• Centralia police reported yesterday they were looking for a 34-year-old Centralia man in connection with  second-degree assault called in about 2:10 a.m. at the 300 block of North Diamond Street in Centralia. Officers were told he beat up his girlfriend, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Deputies called about 6:30 p.m. on Saturday about a dispute at the 200 block of Roe Road in Winlock subsequently arrested a 30-year-old Chehalis man who allegedly broke the trim on his girlfriend’s door her front door, threw a bag of food at her head and said he was going to “get her,” according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Adam C. Sullivan was booked for violation of a no-contact order and possibly faces other charges, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Sullivan was picked up when he returned later to the home, according to the sheriff’s office.

• A 64-year-old Centralia man was arrested for felony harassment on Friday in Centralia in connection with an angry message left on a phone, according to Centralia police. Deputies had been looking for Melvyn J. Valentine after an approximately 4:45 a.m. call he showed up at at his ex-girlfriend’s residence on the 3300 block of Harrison Avenue in violation of a no-contact order, according to the sheriff’s office. Valentine was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

• A 41-year-old man found laying atop a tanker rail car in Centralia late Friday night was arrested for trespassing and violating a no-contact order allegedly earlier in the evening at an address on the 2100 block of Taylor Street in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Ernest A. Calderon was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

MAN ACUSED OF RECYCLING SOMEONE ELSE’S STUFF

• Two RV batteries stolen from a travel trailer during the night turned up among batteries accepted for recycling by a business on the 600 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. The victim called police who reviewed surveillance video and then detained a suspect who returned to the service station-food mart about 9 p.m. yesterday, according to police. Steve Ingle Jr., no age or city immediately available, said he found them, according to police. Officers booked Ingle into the Lewis County Jail for trafficking in stolen property.

THEFT OF ELECTRONICS

• Centralia police were called just after 7 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 1400 block of Harrison Avenue about a laptop computer which had been stolen the prior evening from the home. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called about 2 p.m. Saturday to the 1200 block of Alder Street in Centralia about a theft of a Kindle.

• A Hewlett-Packard laptop computer and GPS device were stolen from a car at the 500 block of East Main Street in Centralia, according to a report made to an officer on Saturday.

• Two flat-screen televisions and a first-aid kit were stolen from a trailer at the Cascade Peaks RV Park on the 11,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Randle, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. A 50-year-old man from Pasco said it occurred sometime between July 16 and last Thursday, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

TRICYCLE TAKEN

• A “collectible tricycle” was reported stolen Saturday from a front yard on the 600 block of West Pine Street in Centralia.

CAR PROWL

• A woman called police after leaving the 100 block of Southwest Sixth Street in Chehalis on Friday and realizing the purse she’d left in her locked vehicle was missing.

• A Pioneer CD changer was stolen from an unlocked vehicle at the 3000 block of Ives Road outside Centralia sometime between 10 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The hood and door were damaged as well, according to the sheriff’s office.

MAN RUNS FROM POLICE DOG

• A 20-year-old man with a felony warrant who police said ran from officers was caught by a police dog and taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for treatment of his injuries early Sunday morning. The incident occurred on B and Sixth streets in Centralia about 2:50 a.m., according to the Centralia Police Department. Matthew D. Christiansen, a Centralia, resident, was then booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.