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By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A Thurston County Jail inmate is on crisis watch after an apparent attempted suicide yesterday in which jail officers intervened, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

The 45-year-old man was found unresponsive during a routine check about 3:15 p.m., lying on his cell floor with a sheet around his neck and tied to a stool; his face was discolored, according to sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin.

When staff loosened the sheet, the inmate became responsive to questions and directives, Elwin said in a news release.

He was treated and remains on crisis watch pending medical clearance, according to the news release.

The inmate’s name was not released. He is in custody for residential burglary and malicious mischief, according to Elwin.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Javier Jimenez Villalavazo, the man wanted for allegedly shooting a 24-year-old woman outside a Napavine apartment, is in the Lewis County Jail tonight.

Villalavazo, 22, was booked about 9 p.m. for first-degree assault with a firearm, according to the jail roster.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday the unnamed woman was wounded when she was shot twice, they believed at about 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Sheriff’s detectives have been assisting the Napavine Police Department, a two-officer agency.

The suspect, who is also known as “The Joker”, has most recently been listed as living in Chehalis.

Few details and no suspected motive for the shooting have been released.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – As deputies searched yesterday for the man suspected of shooting and wounding a woman in Napavine, they arrested four people at a “flop house” in Centralia.

Javier Jimenez Villalavazo, 22, is believed to be the gun man who on Sunday night fired at a 24-year-old Centralia woman outside a Napavine apartment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

On Tuesday, a sheriff’s detective and other officers went to a house on the 600 block of State Street in south Centralia looking for Villalavazo, who also reportedly goes by the name “The Joker”.

Instead, they found 32 grams of suspected heroin, 24 grams of suspected methamphetamine, 11-plus grams of marijuana, digital scales, baggies and other paraphernalia, according to charging documents in Lewis County Superior Court.

Two men and two women at the house were arrested and then charged today with possession of methamphetamine and possession of heroin, according to the filings in their cases.

Charged were the resident, Ian D. Angelo, 33; John L. McNeal, 26, who said he’d lived there about a month; Natalie E. Sanchez-Anderson, 19; and Tammy R. Viers, 39.

All were ordered held on $10,000 bail. McNeal and Sanchez-Anderson have already been released.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The (Longview) Daily News reports police arrested an 18-year-old after he allegedly claimed he “took” the long missing Kayla Croft-Payne and demanded $35,000 for her return.

Kayla Croft-Payne on MySpace

News reporter Leslie Slape writes the Longview resident was arrested Sunday morning for first-degree extortion following a phone call to 911 saying he would kill Croft-Payne if the money wasn’t left in a certain place for him.

Croft-Payne was 18 years old and living outside Chehalis on April 28, 2010 when she last logged onto her MySpace internet account. She was reported missing on May 5 by a friend who hadn’t seen or heard from her for several days.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office has followed tips up into Pierce County, and down into Cowlitz County, saying in March the  last place they could verify she was seen was a trailer park in the Toutle area.

Read Slape’s news story here

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office announced a level three registered sex offender recently moved from Thurston County to Centralia.

Seth R. Liebich, 24, is registered as living on the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue.

He is not wanted by law enforcement, but notification to the community is meant to inform the public and enhance public safety, according to the sheriff’s office.

Liebich, who is developmentally delayed, was convicted as a 16-year-old of indecent liberties with forcible compulsion involving a 19-year-old developmentally delayed female in Lewis County, according to sheriff’s detective Jamey McGinty. He was arrested at age 13 for sexual contact with a 7-year-old relative, but found not competent to stand trial, according to McGinty.

He has served his time and completed a sex offender treatment program, according to McGinty.

The sheriff’s office designated him as a level three sex offender because a history of sexually inappropriate behavior and an inability to control his compulsion, according to McGinty.

Liebich is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 230 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.

To see more details from the bulletin and a photo of Liebich, visit the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office web site level three sex offender page, here.

Questions? The sheriff’s office says call 360-748-9286 for detective McGinty or Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber.
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To search for registered sex offenders living within a specified radius from your home, work or school, visit the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Offender Watch page, here. There, you can also find safety tips and other information, as well as register to receive email alerts if a new offender registers with an address near you. The same link can always be found on the sidebar of Lewis County Sirens.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A log truck driver was uninjured when his truck tipped onto its side near Kit Carson restaurant in Chehalis this afternoon.

It happened about 3:15 p.m., according to the Chehalis Fire Department

The truck was on Parkland Drive turning north onto Southwest Interstate Avenue when it “flopped” over, pretty much blocking all the lanes, according to fire Capt. Rob Gebhart.

The adult male driver was unhurt and the load fell off but stayed bundled together, Gebhart said.