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HEROIN, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE FOUND IN TRAILER

• Centralia police officers joined by sheriff’s deputies yesterday evening found suspected heroin, and cocaine and methamphetamine at a travel trailer on the 1300 block of Highway 6 west of Chehalis, according to a news release this morning. The Centralia Police Department Anti-Crime team served a search warrant there about 5 p.m. and also found packaging materials and scales, leading to the arrest of a 47-year-old man for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Kevin N. Stewart, 47, was booked into the Lewis County Jail. The amount of suspected drugs found was not revealed.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

• Chehalis police early this morning served a search warrant at a home on Southwest 14th Street following up on information about marijuana growing there. The visit just after 7 a.m. by detectives and a patrol officer was fairly low key and uneventful, according to police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara. “We were aware in the past they had medical marijuana and we found they are in compliance,” McNamara said this morning.

STOLEN STUFF, BROKEN GLASS

• A deputy checking out a report early this morning of a suspicious vehicle, a moped parked on private property, woke up the individual with the moped who was sleeping and then discovered it had been reported stolen from a Centralia resident. Eric B. J. Maggard, 27, of Castle Rock, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of a stolen vehicle following the 12:45 a.m. call to the 4000 block of Jackson Highway, just north of Toledo, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

• Centralia police about 6 p.m. on Tuesday that somebody entered a travel trailer on the 1100 block of West Chestnut Street and stole CDs, the victim’s rent money and other items, according to police.

• About 10 p.m. last night a Centralia police officer responded to the 500 block of Ash Street in Centralia where somebody had broken out the rear and passenger side windows of a vehicle. It followed a “domestic issue” which occurred in Thurston County, according to the Centralia Police Department.

• Centralia police about 11 p.m. last night made a report that two windows were broken out of a building on the 1200 block of West Main Street.

• Sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 5:05 a.m. on Tuesday, somebody prowled a vehicle on the 1100 block of Silverbrook Road in Randle and took 20 music CDs, according to a report made to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday.

• Somebody entered an unlocked vehicle at the 800 block of Johnson Road in Centralia and stole pain medication, according to  report made to police about 6 p.m. last night.

• Just before noon yesterday, an officer was called to the 700 block of West Second Street in Centralia where somebody pried the window seal from a vehicle and stole a ring, according to police.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday morning from a woman who said she was billed for taxes by somebody using her social security number in another state.

CARS AND TRUCK STOLEN

• Centralia police took a report about 6:20 a.m. today that a 1990 Ford Ranger was stolen over the weekend from the 1100 block of K. Street.

• A blue 1998 VW Passat vanished from a driveway at the 100 block of Bowers Road outside Chehalis sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Friday and 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning.

• A sheriff’s deputy took a report on Friday that a 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis was stolen from the 100 block of Morris Road in Randle. The $5,000 car was parked at its residence at 9:30 p.m. the night before and gone at 5 a.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

BREAKING IN, BREAKING OUT

• Centralia police were called just after 9 p.m. last night about a burglary at a home on the 1400 block of View Street. The victim said two rings, some cash and approximately 100 baseball cards were missing from a bedroom, according the Centralia Police Department.

• Somebody stole a quad and parts for a Ford Mustang  when they got into a temporary storage area on the 400 block of West Main Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before 8 p.m. last night. Police described the quad as a blue and gray “Veto Bobcat”.

• A Bucoda-area resident returned home after the long weekend to find somebody had tried to break into her house. A deputy called about 5 p.m. on Monday to the home on the 20,200 block of Bucoda Highway Southeast was told the woman went to open the door between her garage and her her home and the metal catch fell to the floor. Nothing appeared to be missing, but the door frame was broken according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. The outer garage door had been left unlocked, Lt. Chris Mealy said.

• A deputy was called about 8 a.m. on Saturday to the Tenino area when an 88-year-old man’s caregiver discovered someone had broken out the window of his pickup truck. She thought it was unusual because she had locked the gate to the driveway the night before but when she arrived to the residence on the 19,900 block of Steelhead Court Southeast, it was open, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Nothing was missing.

• Centralia police were called last night to the 400 block of South Oak Street where somebody had smashed the window of a pickup truck and tried to steal a laptop computer inside which was locked into a holder. They weren’t successful, according to the Centralia Police Department. About  a half hour earlier, at 8 p.m., an officer took a report of a vehicle prowl on the 400 block of West Main Street. A window was broken and missing a GPS device, an Ipod and approximately 50 CDs, according to police.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning that somebody broke the lock off a truck’s tool box and took a chop saw, a screw gun, a skill saw and a battery powered tool kit. The estimated $600 theft happened sometime on Friday on the 1300 block of state Route 508 in Onalaska, according to sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust.

OOPS

• A 53-year-old Salkum woman was arrested overnight after a small baggie fell out of her glove box as she was getting her registration for a police officer. A Chehalis tribal officer was checking on a suspicious vehicle about 2 o’clock this morning along the 19,000 block of Anderson Road in Rochester, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Florence K. Montes said she was waiting for a friend and handed the officer an expired vehicle registration, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said. A sheriff’s deputy was called to assist and found a white substance which tested positive for amphetamine, Mealy said. Montes was booked into the Thurston County Jail for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, according to Mealy.

INHALING TOXIC FUMES

• A 22-year-old Winlock woman was jailed yesterday when deputies picked her up at a Winlock address. She was wanted by Chehalis police for inhaling toxic fumes, a misdemeanor. Law officers from Chehalis and the the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said they come across it from time to time and it grew out of former glue sniffing law. Detective Sgt. Rick McNamara and sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said the people they come across are using spray paint and even engine cleaner and either spraying it into their hand, a rag or a paper sack and then inhaling it to get  kind of high. “It’s been a problem,” McNamara said. “They’re not only hurting their brain and lungs, they can kill themselves.” Ashley E. Howland was also arrested on a warrant in connection with a misdemeanor theft, according to police.