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MAN COULD GET FIVE YEARS FOR DUI

• A 38-year-old Toledo man was convicted today for felony driving under the influence, under the state law that makes the fifth DUI within a 10-year period a felony. Richard Leland Harrington Jr. faces a sentence of somewhere between four plus years to a little more than five and half years when he is sentenced, according to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office. He was charged July 13 and a jury today in Lewis County Superior Court found him guilty, according to the office. Elected Prosecutor Michael Golden said his office has only had a few of these kinds of cases since the law went into effect in 2006.

THIRD-DEGREE THEFT TURNS TO ROBBERY ARREST

• A juvenile male who reportedly shoved a clerk when he was confronted about shoplifting in Centralia yesterday was arrested for second-degree robbery and booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the Centralia Police Department. The clerk at the store on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue was not injured, according to police.

HIT AND RUN

• Centralia police were called to Alder and Mellen streets after a car crossed the center line and avoided a head-on collision by swerving, but still struck another vehicle in the side and then fled. It happened about 6 p.m. yesterday. Police describe the offending vehicle as a blue or green Nissan Maxima which would have front end damage. The victim was not injured, according to the Centralia Police Department.

STEALING FROM VEHICLES

• Somebody stole a 20 HP Mercury outboard motor valued at $1,000 from Taidnapam Park at the east end of Riffe Lake, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday. It happened sometime between 2 p.m. on Monday and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust.

• Centralia Police took a report of the theft of a pistol from a vehicle on the 1100 block of West Plum Street on Tuesday.

• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart on Northwest Louisiana Avenue yesterday about a vehicle prowl in which several items including a cell phone, camera, cash and a $400 check were taken from a diaper bag in a car.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported today a vehicle prowl occurred sometime between 1 p.m. on Sunday and 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday in Silver Creek. Somebody stole a $300 stereo from a vehicle on the 100 block of Chief Kiona Road, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Centralia Police took a report of a burglary to a recreational vehicle on Tuesday from the 200 block of East Main Street.

TIRES SLASHED

• Centralia police took a report yesterday evening from Railroad Avenue and East Maple Street where somebody’s tires had been slashed over the weekend.

LITTLE CAR FIRE AT DRIVE-THROUGH RESTAURANT

• A small fire started under the hood of Honda Accord as it went through the drive-through at Jack-in-the-Box in Centralia on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue on Tuesday night but the driver pulled into the parking lot and put water on it, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

MAILBOX BLOWN UP

• Chehalis police were called Tuesday to the 100 block of Southeast Monroe Avenue where somebody had blown up a mailbox. It happened the night before and police don’t have any suspects, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

WRECKS

• The state patrol blames inattention on a minor wreck on Interstate 5 in Chehalis Tuesday night that sent a Portland woman to the hospital. Donna C. Cameron, 59, was traveling northbound near the 13th Street exit when her car began to slow from mechanical problems, according to the Washington State Patrol. A 2002 Hyundai driven by a 25-year-old Centralia woman ran onto the back of Cameron’s 1985 Nissan, according to the investigating trooper. Both cars were drivable after the approximately 11:20 p.m. collision but Cameron was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with neck pain, the state patrol reported. Heather D. McKibben, 25, was expected to be cited for following too closely, having no insurance and driving with a suspended license, according to the trooper.

• An 18-year-old Chehalis resident who was flown by helicopter to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver early yesterday morning after a single-vehicle collision at the 100 block of Hawkins Road in Winlock has been released from the hospital. Andrew J. Jacaway was driving a 2004 Chevrolet pickup and failed to negotiate a turn and ran into a guard rail and railroad crossing arms, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened about 2:20 a.m. Responders from Lewis County Fire District 15 found him a short distance away, walking down Highway 603. He was airlifted to the Vancouver hospital because of possible head or internal injuries, according to the sheriff’s office and District 15.

INJURIES AND VIOLENCE

• A 30-year-old man who brought a friend and her friend to his travel trailer home in between Napavine and Winlock yesterday found himself hit in the head with a flashlight after two males showed up, began yelling at him, and then stole his fire safe, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. A deputy was called to the home on the 100 block of Wilson Road at about 7:15 a.m. yesterday, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The victim hit one of the suspects in the back with the flashlight before they fled in a blue or gray vehicle, Brown said. She did not report what the safe contained.

• A 26-year-old Tenino man was arrested for second-degree assault after police were called to a Chehalis drinking establishment just before closing time over the weekend. The 1:34 a.m. call on Saturday to Paradise Teriyaki on Northwest Chehalis Avenue ended with Colt C. Johnson booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said another patron was taking a drink from a beer bottle when Johnson hit the bottom of the bottle, breaking the individual’s tooth.

• Cory R. Aldrich, 23, was arrested and jailed Sunday night for felony harassment, domestic violence, from the 2500 block of North Pearl Street outside Centralia after he allegedly made a comment about using his belt to snap his mother’s neck, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday.

• Chehalis police were called to what was described as a large fight in a parking lot at the 2100 block of North National Avenue about 1:45 a.m. on Sunday. When officers arrived, most everybody was gone, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Firefighters expected a Chehalis toddler would be sent to  the burn unit at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after they treated him for second-degree burns when a Cup of Noodles soup fell off a kitchen counter and scalded his chest and stomach yesterday. Firefighter Derrick Paul said the 20-month-old boy was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after the afternoon call to Northwest Maryland Avenue.

FIRE BEHIND WENDY’S RESTAURANT IN CENTRALIA

• Firefighters called to extinguish several tall landscape shrubs behind Wendys restaurant in Centralia over the weekend had to air out the building as the air conditioning had pulled smoke inside. The cause of the approximately 10:15 a.m. Saturday fire at the building on the 800 block of Harrison Avenue wasn’t  known, Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Casey McCarthy said yesterday.

MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS

• A black 1998 Honda Civic that went missing from the 7000 block of 183rd Avenue Southwest in Rochester sometime on Monday turned up abandoned about 12:45 a.m. today at the park and ride near Interstate 5 and Toledo. The ignition was punched out, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office was called Saturday night to the 500 block of Eadon Road outside Toledo where somebody had stolen a blue and white 2006 Yamaha YZ125 motorcycle, the sheriff’s office reported yesterday. The Yamaha was taken sometime between August 1 and Saturday, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

BURGLARIES OF ELECTRONICS AND OTHER THINGS

• An estimated $2,225 of electronics including a 42-inch television valued at $900 vanished from a Rochester area home in a weekend burglary, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Somebody broke a window at a residence on the 17,800 block of Iris Place Southwest sometime between 8 p.m. on Friday and 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said. Some of the other valuables taken included a Sony Blu-ray, an X-Box, a Wii game and a Toshiba notebook, according to Mealy.

• Centralia police took a report Monday morning that somebody broke into a building on the 1000 block of Mellen Street and stole electronics.

• Centralia police were called Sunday to a residence on the 1100 block of South Tower Avenue where somebody had forced their way into the home and stole electronics.

• Centralia police reported the discovery early Sunday morning that somebody had broken the front window at a business on the 100 block of West First Street and stole cases of beer.

• Centralia police were called about 4:20 p.m. on Saturday to a residence on the 600 block of F Street where someone had forced their way inside and stole prescription medication.

• Somebody broke through a child’s bedroom window at a Centralia-area home on Friday and stole two hats and a backpack, after the dumping the child’s toys from the backpack onto a couch, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported today.  It happened sometime during the day on the 20,100 block of Shamon Court Southwest, according to the sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy.

FORGERY OF BUSINESS CHECKS

• Centralia police took a report on Monday about the forgery of business checks connected with the 2000 block of Borst Avenue. A person of interest was identified, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWLERS SOMETIMES TAKE NOTHING

• Chehalis police were called Sunday afternoon to the 200 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue where a man said he left vehicle parked there overnight and then discovered somebody had gone through it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police were called to a vehicle prowl at the Holiday Inn Express at Liberty Place on Friday morning.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported on Monday that a woman on the 900 block of Cowlitz Road outside Centralia discovered that sometime between last Wednesday and Thursday somebody prowled around in her vehicle, leaving a door and the glove box open. Nothing was missing. On Thursday, a man on the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue outside Centralia reported somebody damaged a window to get inside his van but took nothing.

NAILS STUCK IN TIRE ON PURPOSE

• Centralia police were called on Monday afternoon to the 400 block of West Third Street where somebody had driven a number of nails into a tire.

WRECKS IN THE CITY

• Centralia police said a driver may have blacked out before she crossed the center online on West Main Street yesterday and struck a car coming the other way. The relatively minor collision happened about 2:40 p.m. near North Ash Street. A 37-year-old female driver was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with a medical issue, according to responders.

• A 20-year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence after a collision on Saturday into a fire fire hydrant at Johnson Road and West Reynolds Avenue in Centralia. Luke C. Steelhammer of Rochester was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Centralia police.