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DRUGS

• A 25-year-old Rochester woman was arrested for possession of heroin and methamphetamine after contact with police about 11:20 p.m. last night at the 2400 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia. Officers went there looking for someone with a warrant and when Amanda D. Chamberlain saw them, she ran, according to police. Chamberlain also had an outstanding warrant, according to Officer John Panco. The suspected drugs were found inside her purse, he said. Chamberlain was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police arrested a 24-year-old woman for possession of suspected heroin after a traffic stop in the 500 block of Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis late yesterday afternoon. Indications of illegal activity led an officer to bring in a drug sniffing dog who discovered a loaded syringe on the floor board of the vehicle, according to police Sgt. Gary Wilson. Alyssa E. Taylor was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Wilson.

THEFT

• Centralia police were called to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue just before 8 p.m. last night where a 17-year-old boy allegedly tried to steal two cans of beer from  a grocery store and fought with security personnel when he was stopped. He was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for second-degree robbery.

WRECK

• A 21-year-old Chehalis man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with neck pain after his pickup was struck by a vehicle on Highway 603 at Brown Road East last night. A deputy called about 7 p.m. found the truck had rolled, hit a post and landed in the ditch, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Th pickup truck also collided with a Ford Expedition stopped at Shorey Road, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The 49-year-old driver of the other vehicle, a 2011 Lexus, was cited for failing to yield, Brown said.

SEX ABUSE

• Chehalis police arrested a 31-year-old Chehalis man last night for an incident of sexual abuse upon a young girl that took place in the unspecified past. Sean M. Klamn was arrested at a Chehalis home and booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree child rape, according to police. The age of the child or if the two knew each other were not revealed. However, under state law, the crime of first-degree rape of a child occurs if the victim is less than 12 years old and can involve the ordinary meaning of intercourse or any penetration however slight with an object or part of a person.

SPRING CLEANING SURPRISE

• The sheriff’s office was called yesterday when a 70-year-old Centralia woman cleaning out a trunk in her living room found a box labeled “Seventy commercial explosives, extremely dangerous.” A deputy arriving just before 1 p.m. to the home on the 1500 block of North Pearl Street was told she thought they were something used by her late husband about 20 years earlier, Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. A bomb squad from the Washington State Patrol was called to dispose of the items, Brown said.

THEFT

• A deputy called yesterday morning to a well drilling business on the 900 block of Jackson Highway in Toledo learned someone had broken in probably just before 3 a.m. and stolen approximately $2,000 worth of various wiring, including wires cut from several machines, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Two Stihl chainsaws were stolen from the 300 block of Shanklin Road in Onalaska sometime between Monday and yesterday, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They may have the words “McDaniel Telephone” engraved on the base, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.

THEFT

• Police were called about 9:40 a.m. yesterday about a burglary to a home on the 100 block of North Gold Street in Centralia. It appeared someone had come in through an unlocked door while the resident was out for about an hour, according to police. Missing was an X-Box, games, a backpack and jewelry, including a bracelet and a ring, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Police were called just before 11 o’clock last night to the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia about a car prowl. The owner saw a male inside the vehicle but he left before police arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department.  A stereo was taken, according to police.

• Someone took a wallet, a cell phone and an iPod from an unlocked truck parked at Toledo High School some time during during baseball practice between 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

WRECK

• A 21-year-old driver escaped injury when he lost control of his truck pulling a loaded car trailer this morning on Interstate 5 south of Chehalis. Troopers and aid called just before 11 a.m. to the northbound lanes near milepost 70 found the 1999 Ford F250 and its trailer had partially rolled, blocking the freeway, according to the Washington State Patrol. Two of the three cars dislodged from the trailer, according to the state patrol. All three looked wrecked, according to Lewis County Fire District 5. The pickup was totaled. Vladimir Kachankov, 21, of Battle Ground, was unhurt, the state patrol reported. His trailer had blown a tire causing him to lose control, according to the investigating trooper.

Interstate 5 near milepost 70 is blocked by a truck and its car trailer. / Courtesy photo by Washington State Patrol