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GOOD DATE GOES BAD

• A 44-year-old Rochester man spent yesterday running errands and shopping with a woman he’d met the night before at the Red Barn in Grand Mound only to discover after they split up at the mall for awhile in the afternoon, she apparently burglarized his house, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Lynne M. Vanier, 43, of Rochester was arrested yesterday evening, according to sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy. The victim told a deputy they’d hit it off immediately when they met and spent Sunday evening and Monday together, Mealy said. They were at the Capitol Mall in West Olympia about 4 p.m. yesterday when she said she going to run over to a friends house nearby and would be right back; he should wait for her in the Best Buy store, Mealy said. While he was waiting, he got a phone call from a friend who said a neighbor had seen the woman leaving his house on the 19,400 block of Pecan Street Southwest, according to Mealy. He arrived home to find pry marks on the front door and missing was $280 cash, as well as most the contents of prescription medications Xanax and tramdol, according to Mealy. “The bottom line is, she’s arrested for residential burglary and she’s sitting in jail,” he said.

MAN PICTURED IN GAME CAM PHOTO ARRESTED, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS

• A 25-year-old Rochester resident reportedly bragged to a friend the “cops won’t be able to catch him” after a news article appeared in The Chronicle last month featuring a photo captured by a so-called game cam of an intruder into a Chehalis business. The Tukwila Police Department contacted the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office yesterday morning to say they had arrested the man after his friend tipped them off, sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said this morning. Detectives yesterday picked up Lance H. Gauthun, 25, and booked him into the Lewis County Jail, Aust said. The owner of Ramsey Co. on Hamilton Road had set up his camera which uses infra-red technology and a motion sensor – usually for scoping out good places to hunt – in his shop after a series of thefts of pieces from his trucks and other equipment. Aust said detectives had other evidence linking Gauthun to the break-in. He was booked for first-degree theft, second-degree burglary and trafficking in stolen property, according to Aust.

MOTORIST MOWS OVER SIGN ON DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK

• Witnesses said he was driving too fast before he drove up onto the sidewalk on the right hand side of the street in downtown Chehalis last night, shearing a no-parking sign off at the ground and damaging his vehicle on the driver’s side front corner, the Chehalis Police Department said this morning about a 19-year-old motorist. It happened about 9:15 p.m. last night along Northwest Pacific Avenue, just before Chehalis Avenue. The vehicle came very close to the building there, but didn’t hit it, although he ended up with a broken windshield, detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said. Nathan S. Page, 19, of Centralia, was later arrested with a criminal citation for reckless driving and hit and run, according to McNamara.

DIFFERENT KIND OF GAS DRIVE OFF

• Centralia firefighters kept busy for about two hours last night helping clean up after a woman drove away from a gas pump with the nozzle still attached. Riverside Fire Authority was summoned about 6 p.m. to the I-5 Freeway Mart on Harrison Avenue at View Street. It wasn’t a large fuel spill, but firefighters had to create a dike and call out the Department of Ecology and someone from the city’s storm water department to make sure none got into the sewer system, fire Capt. Erik Olson said this morning. A commercial cleanup service was able to use a vacuum to suck the fuel and water mix from a catch basin, he said.

MORE THEFTS

• A Lewis County sheriff’s deputy took a report yesterday of the theft of approximately 400 feet of copper wire and a six-wheeled Polaris ATV. Sometime between noon on Sunday and 7 a.m. yesterday, somebody cut through a fence to get to the items on the 1100 block of Highway 603 outside Napavine, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Centralia police reported yesterday they took a report of a burglary  to a residence on the 100 block of Aurora Street. Police, called to the home on Sunday, noted “various items” were missing and that the investigation is ongoing.

• Police were called about 2:30 p.m. yesterday to a vehicle prowl on the 1000 block of West Chestnut Street. Missing were a GPS device, a digital camera and an Amazon Kindle, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CENTRALIA ARREST INCLUDES GROUND FIGHT, TASER, BATON AND TWO INJURED

• An attempt to arrest a man last night in Centralia ended with both the 36-year-old man and a police officer going to the hospital. Centralia police responded to a call about a man running back and forth across the train tracks and diving into the bushes in the late evening near the 500 block of South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. The individual, Harvey Maddux, is somebody with a long history of mental instability and drug abuse, and officers get several calls each month because of his erratic behavior and things he’s done, according to Centralia police Officer Chris Fitzgerald. As one officer attempted to handcuff him, Maddux charged another, Officer Ruben Ramirez and struck Ramirez with his fist, according to Fitzgerald. An officer deployed a Taser and Maddux “defeated” the Taser, she said, without elaborating. He was impervious to the Taser, she said. The ensuing struggle involved a ground fight, she said. Officer Phillip Reynolds delivered several blows with his baton to the suspect’s arms, back and “I think he got caught on the head,” Fitzgerald said. One of Reynolds’ baton strikes got Officer Deric Makein the hand as well, she said. Both went to Providence Centralia Hospital where she believed Maddux got some stitches in his head; and Makein’s hand was X-rayed to see if it was broken, according to Fitzgerald. It wasn’t. Maddux, 36, whose hometown was not noted, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault, according to Centralia police.

SUSPECTED THIEF ANSWERS TEXT MESSAGE ON STOLEN CELL PHONE

• A woman exchanged text messages with a suspected thief after her purse containing bank cards and her cell phone were stolen from her vehicle on Saturday night in Centralia leading to an arrest and the recovery of her belongings, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer took a report about 10:20 p.m. about the car prowl and three hours later learned the victim texted her phone and got messages back, according to police. The 15-year-old male – whose name was not released because he’s a juvenile – allegedly worked out a deal to return the woman’s items if she paid him money, an amount police did not disclose. Officers coordinated with the woman to make the exchange and the suspect was taken into custody, following a short pursuit, according to police. The teenager was then booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for trafficking stolen property, according to police.

SUSPECT CAUGHT IN CLOSET OF SOMEBODY ELSE’S APARTMENT

• Centralia police responded to a call about a burglary on Friday evening on the 400 block of South Cedar Street and discovered somebody had been going through a crawl space in the attic and breaking through fire walls to burglarize apartments, according to the Centralia Police Department. Twenty-nine year old Rachel L. Grider, of Centralia, was found hiding in a closet of one apartment and booked for second-degree burglary into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

ONALASKA RESIDENT PURSUES BURGLARY SUSPECTS

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a call on Saturday afternoon about a burglary to an Onalaska-area home and before they could arrive, were called again and told one of the victims was behind the suspect’s vehicle. Deputies and troopers caught up to the suspect’s broken down vehicle on U.S. Highway 12 in Silver Creek and arrested the pair, sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said this morning. The victim was able to identify their valuables – including items such as jewelry, a pellet gun, a laptop computer and electronic movies and games adding up to about $2,700 in value – missing from the home on the 100 block of Harvest Moon Drive, Aust said. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for residential burglary and second-degree theft were Michael A. Boyer, 27 and Danielle M. Brown, 33, according to Aust. He described them as transients and noted Boyer had a fugitive from justice warrant out of Washington County, Ore. Aust said he wasn’t clear about how and where the victim began trailing the suspected burglars.

MORE THEFTS

• Centralia police took a report of a burglary on Friday afternoon connected with the 1200 block of Mellen Street in which approximately $600 was taken.

• Local police often respond to shoplifting incidents but don’t often describe in their morning summaries to the press what was taken. However, a Centralia police officer noted a female who fled an incident around 2 p.m. Friday at the 100 block of West High Street in Centralia got away with black, tan and lace argyle-patterned matching bra and panties.

• Chehalis police were called about 6:40 p.m. on Saturday about the theft of a blue 1992 Honda.

OTHER STUFF

• Centralia police were called about 12:20 a.m. on Saturday to the 600 block of West Main Street where somebody had slashed tires and “keyed” a vehicle.

• Chehalis police were called about 11 a.m. on Saturday to a report a vehicle ran into a building on the 300 block of South Market Boulevard. Further details weren’t readily available.