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EX-MILITARY MAN ARRESTED FOR GIVING CHILD TWO BLACK EYES, OTHER INJURIES, POLICE SAY

• A 39-year-old Chehalis man who recently got out of the  military was arrested yesterday for assaulting a 7-year-old boy in one of the most extensive child abuse cases Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut has seen in his career, Kaut said this morning. Police arrested Steven G. Williams for second-degree assault of a child yesterday afternoon at a residence on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Chehalis, according to Kaut. The child lives with his grandparents in another county and after he returned from a two-week visit with his mother, they discovered bruises on his back, his buttocks and two black eyes, Kaut said. The boyfriend has been staying with the mother in Chehalis, he said. The child was treated, he was not in the hospital for any length of time, and is okay now, Kaut said.

WOMAN TRIES TO OUTRUN POLICE IN VEHICLE

• An overnight traffic stop that began on the 1400 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia led to a police pursuit when a 42-year-old female driver sped off and was chased out Old Highway 99 ending in Grand Mound near U.S. Highway 12. Centralia police reported the approximately 12:30 a.m. incident reached speeds of 60 mph and ended with a Centralia officer conducting a so-called PIT maneuver, using the patrol car to tap her vehicle to stop it. Roxanne K. York, 42, told police she knew she had outstanding warrants and “prison time hanging over her head,” police reported. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for eluding, and the warrants, according to police.

ATV ACCIDENT SENDS TWO MEN OVER 40-FOOT BANK

• A pair of Vancouver men were rescued yesterday afternoon following an ATV accident outside Randle in which one man heading up a steep hill rolled it over, running into the second men and sending them both – and the Quad – over a 40-foot embankment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Members of Lewis County Fire District 14 and also Packwood Search and Rescue were called about 3 p.m. to the scene about two miles from the Blue Lake off-road vehicle trailhead, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust. The 57-year-old driver and the 39-year-old other man were taken to Morton General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Aust said.

FARM WORKER JAILED FOR HITTING MAN IN HEAD WITH GARDEN HOE, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS

• A 53-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested for second-degree assault after he allegedly hit another man in the head with a garden hoe at DeGoede Bulb Farm on Wednesday morning. Deputies called about 10:30 a.m. to the U.S. Highway 12 farm near Mossyrock arrested Jaimie R. Hernandez, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim suffered a minor cut, sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said.

TENINO MAN ARRESTED AFTER FIRING RIFLE TOWARD DOT WORKSITE

• A 51-year-old Tenino-area man was was arrested after allegedly firing a powerful hunting rifle into a gravel pit where two Department of Transportation employees were working Wednesday night and yelling if they didn’t turn off their equipment, he was going to “spray some lead,” according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. It happened about 9:30 p.m. near 169th Avenue Southwest and Gibson Road west of Tenino, according to Chief Criminal Deputy Jim Chamberlain. When deputies arrived to the nearby home, a man staying in a motor home there was contacted. Chamberlain said Rodney L. Thiesfeld, 51, had a mark that appeared to be from a rifle scope on his forehead. A 30.06 rifle and some ammunition was seized, he said. He reportedly fired the gun near them but not at them, Chamberlain said. Thiesfeld was booked for felony harassment.

CAR STOLEN NEAR CHEHALIS

•  A white 2001 Pontiac Grand Am was reported stolen from the 1900 block of Rice Road west of Chehalis on Thursday morning. The car, valued at $5,000, disappeared sometime between 10 p.m. on Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

FLEEING SHOPLIFTER BACKS VEHICLE INTO SAFEWAY EMPLOYEE

• Police were called after a fleeing shoplifted backed his vehicle into an employee who followed the man out into the parking lot at the Safeway in Chehalis on Wednesday. It was an older man who reportedly packed his groceries into a bag he brought with him and left the store on the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard without paying, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said the vehicle struck the employee in the knee, but the employee was not seriously hurt.

MULTIPLE PROWLS REPORTED AT FAIRGROUNDS

• Chehalis police were called to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Wednesday night to a report of several vehicle prowls in the area where vendors are camping.

ROBBERY SUSPECT JAILED

• Emerald A. Kulberg was arrested in connection with a home-invasion robbery early last week at a travel trailer home in between Napavine and Winlock. A 30-year-old man was hit in the head with a flashlight and his safe was stolen from the 100 block of Wilson Road early in the morning of Aug. 9. Kulberg was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery on Wednesday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported today.

MAN ARRESTED FOR EARLY SUNDAY ASSAULT IN CHEHALIS

• Police arrested Adam R. McCarter on Tuesday for second-degree assault in connection with a weekend incident at the Code Red bar on the 500 block of North Market Boulevard in Chehalis where an individual was elbowed in the head, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

TRUCK TAKEN FROM CENTRALIA

• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon about a stolen red Dodge Dakota pickup truck from the 800 block of West First Street. Its license plate reads B82399N, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MORE THAN $6,000 GOODS STOLEN IN ADNA

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning deputies investigated a burglary in the Adna area in which an estimated $6,050 of valuables were stolen. The theft occurred from a building on the 100 block of Chilvers Road sometime between July 29 and Aug. 4, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust. Missing were a Toshiba laptop computer, a 19-inch HDTV, two wireless microphones and a projector, Aust said.

THROWING THINGS AT CARS

• Chehalis police were called just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday to the 700 block of South Market Boulevard where somebody had thrown a brick through the back of a vehicle’s window.

• Chehalis police were called just after 6:30 p.m. yesterday by a female who said subjects in another vehicle had thrown rocks at her vehicle and a bottle at the window by the courthouse in Chehalis.

SEMINARY HILL FIRE

• Firefighters spent about two and half hours yesterday morning in the Seminary Hill nature area in Centralia knocking down a fire that burned brush and a stump. Riverside Fire Authority Chief Jim Walkowski said it’s an area too far off the road to get fire hoses so crews used shovels and water carried in backpacks to put it out.

WRECKS

• Three children and two adults were taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital with neck pain after a single-vehicle collision on Interstate 5 just south of Chehalis on Monday evening, according to responders. A southbound car swerved near the Labree Road interchange, struck a cement wall and came to rest facing the opposite direction on the shoulder, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers called at 5:30 p.m. to the scene found the 1988 Honda Accord totaled. The driver was Stephanie R. King, 31, of Napavine, according to the state patrol. Her passengers, all from Napavine, included Albert L. King, 45, Desmond King, 13, Devin Rice, 13 and Darin Rice, 11, according to the investigating trooper. All were reportedly wearing seat belts. The cause was under investigation.

• Four teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled over on U.S. Highway 12 east of Mossyrock on Monday afternoon. Aid called just before 5 p.m. to the scene near milepost 91 found three girls and a boy between the ages of 14 and 19. The three juveniles were taken to Morton General Hospital but the 19-year-old female driver declined aid, according to Lewis County Fire District 3. Fire Chief Matt Hadaller said he believed they were from the Federal Way area.

Car rolls over on U.S. Highway 12 near Mossyrock Monday afternoon. / Photo by Matt Hadaller