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PE ELL MOLESTATION SUSPECT PICKED UP IN TEXAS

• A 41-year-old former Pe Ell man who vanished after he was charged five years ago with molesting his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter was located and arrested yesterday west of Dallas by Texas Rangers.

Michael T. Yeager

Lewis County Sheriff’s Office detectives have been looking for Michael T. Yeager since 2008, at one point even conducting SWAT operations where they thought he was camping in the woods around Pe Ell, according to the sheriff’s office. Local detectives learned family member’s of Yeager were assisting him by giving him a place to live in Quitman, Texas and asked the Rangers for assistance, according to Sheriff Steve Mansfield. Yeager was arrested late yesterday afternoon and will be extradited back to Lewis County. Mansfield said Yeager was living out in the woods and tried to escape by water in a canoe. A Ranger tracked him down and found he had a large amount of survival gear, a rifle and a fishing pole. Mansfield said. The case involves an allegation he molested the girl over a several year span while they resided together in Pe Ell, according to the sheriff’s office.

COPPER WIRE, PIPES, MISSING FROM ROCK PIT

• Somebody stole stole thousands of dollars worth of materials and equipment from a business on the 800 block of state Route 507 in an overnight break in, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called to the rock pit about 9 a.m. yesterday learned that 250 feet of copper pipe and 100 feet of copper wire were among the items taken, according to the sheriff’s office.

THEFT FROM RENTAL BUSINESS

• Centralia police are investigating a theft from a household furnishings rental center on the 2000 block of Borst Avenue. A report made to police yesterday afternoon indicated a customer stopped making payments  on a living room set and a television, according to police.

POLITICAL SIGN SET ON FIRE

• Firefighters were called to the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia yesterday evening to extinguish a burning Dan Swecker campaign sign. The case was turned over to police.

DRUGS AT GRADE SCHOOL

• Centralia police were summoned to Oakview Elementary School around noontime yesterday when marijuana was found in a 12-year-old boy’s pocket. The case involving a small amount of the suspected drug is being turned over to prosecutors for evaluation, according to the Centralia Police Department.

HONDA CAR SOUGHT IN HOME BREAK-IN

• Deputies were called about 4:25 p.m. yesterday to a burglary at a residence on the 800 block of Logan Hill Road outside Chehalis. A girl told them when  let herself in after school, the door felt like it was unlocked, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A neighbor said he heard a car start up and leave the home about 10:30 a.m., and noted it was a white Honda, perhaps a Civic or  Prelude, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Among the valuables missing are a Toshiba 32-inch flat screen television, a Dell computer monitor, antique silverware and $70 cash, Brown said.

POLICE: VIDEO CAPTURES FLEEING SHOPLIFTER

• A Chehalis police detective traveled to Hoquiam yesterday to arrest a  21-year-old resident for a shoplifting incident last Friday morning at Wal-Mart in Chehalis. Surveillance video which showed someone carrying merchandise our an emergency exit and get into a waiting vehicle led police to Justin A. Dunlap, according to Chehalis police. Dunlap was booked into the Lewis County Jail for retail theft, according to police. Taken was a backpack and stereo equipment valued at about $230, Officer Linda Bailey said.

CAR VERSUS BUS

• A passenger car and a Twin Transit bus collided about 10 a.m. yesterday at the intersection of North Pearl and West First streets in Centralia. The driver of the car ran a red light, according to police. Nobody was injured, according to the Centralia Police Department.

VANDALISM

• Someone broke the window out of a vehicle on the 1400 block of Logan Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 5 p.m. yesterday.

• Centralia police were notified yesterday morning of graffiti spray painted overnight on the back of a building on the 500 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia.

JAW FRACTURED BY TEEN AT GREEN HILL

• Chehalis police were called to Green Hill School yesterday to take a report of a second-degree assault. A 16-year-old boy had punched a 15-year-old boy in the face at the juvenile detention facility and broke his jaw, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The case is being referred to juvenile prosecutors.

THEFT

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 19-year-old Centralia man yesterday for a September 27 burglary in which stereo equipment and other items were taken from the 800 block of State Street East in Centralia. When a deputy took Sam M. Burleson into custody, a glass pipe with unspecified residue was found in his pants pocket, according to the sheriff’s office.

TRUCK PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 7:45 a.m. yesterday to fenced construction yard where someone had broken into three vehicles and also drained 35 gallons of diesel from a dump truck. Also among the items stolen from the 200 block of East Chestnut Street were jumper cables, according to the Centralia Police Department.

TV TAKEN OUT OF CAR

• Someone broke into a car parked at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street in Chehalis and stole a flat screen television and a DVD player, according to a report made to police yesterday evening.

BABY LEFT ON RIVER BANK

• Morton police were called about 3 p.m. on Sunday to a report of a crying infant being left in stroller on the river bank off Main Avenue while its parents were fishing some 15 to 20 feet away. The parents were contacted and cautioned about their behavior, according to Police Chief Dan Mortensen. An officer had them move the baby and an adult into their car to keep the baby out of the rain and cold, according to Mortensen.

CHILD FOUND WITH PASSED OUT MAN ON CHEHALIS STREET

• Chehalis police and aid responded to a report but 7:25 p.m. yesterday of a toddler with a 40-ish man who was laying face down on the sidewalk at Southeast Sixth Street and Washington Avenue. The man smelled of intoxicants and was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to police. The child was picked up by a relative, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

BLOOD IN MOTEL ROOM LEADS TO YAKIMA

• KOMOnews.com reports a man is dead in what Yakima police called an officer-involved shooting after officers went to a man’s home today to check on him in connection with cleaning staff at a Lewis County motel finding blood in the room when the man checked out. For more, see “Bloody Lewis Co. hotel room leads to fatal shooting in Yakima” from KOMOnews.com on Wednesday October 17, 2012 at 12:56 p.m.