By Sharyn L. Decker, Lewis County Sirens news reporter
TENINO MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY USING BASEBALL BAT ON ANOTHER TENINO MAN
• A 35-year-old man was hospitalized with a head injury after a fight broke out Sunday morning in the Tenino area when a woman and her brother were trying to load up her belongings after she and her boyfriend separated. Her brother, the 35-year-old Tenino man whose name was not released, was hit at least twice in the head with a metal baseball bat, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Her former boyfriend, Sean P. Wilson, 35, of Tenino, was arrested and booked into the Thurston County jail for first-degree assault, according to sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy. The incident began as a call about a disturbance about 6:30 a.m. The sheriff’s office was told the woman learned her boyfriend was “burning her stuff”, so she, her brother and another individual went to the home on the 6000 block of Skookumchuk Road Southeast to retrieve her belongings, Mealy said. The brother brought the bat and at some point he and Wilson each used it to smash the rear windows of each other’s Ford pickup trucks, according to Mealy. As the pair fought, Wilson reportedly picked up the bat from the ground and hit the brother in the head, Mealy said. As of yesterday, the brother was in the intensive care unit at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia with a serious head injury, Mealy said. Wilson was also booked for fourth-degree assault as he reportedly punched his former girlfriend in the face, Mealy said.
BREAK-IN OCCURS WHILE ROCHESTER MAN WORKS OUT IN HIS YARD
• Alert neighbors tried to track down a suspicious man they saw fleeing a Rochester home yesterday morning after somebody broke in and stole about $200 cash, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. The resident was working on his mower on one end of his property when somebody apparently pried open a door and went inside, according to Lt. Chris Mealy. The victim, a 46-year-old male, found somebody had rifled through his roll top desk, taken the cash and scattered papers around. It happened about 11 a.m. on the 17,700 block of Pendleton Street Southwest. A sheriff’s office dog and its partner tracked down Jeremy R. Bunting, 28, of Tumwater. He was arrested for burglary.
FORGERY ARREST AT CASINO
• Deputies arrested a Chehalis man yesterday after he attempted to cash a suspicious check at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester. Ronald W. McNeal, 49, was booked into jail for suspected theft and forgery, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. He told the deputy he took the check from an individual to whom he sold a ring and some ear rings, but the Quiznos check, with his name imprinted on it, for $1226.37 had a notation “final paycheck.” The owner of the Centralia Quiznos confirmed the business had not issued the check, Mealy said.
LOTTERY TICKETS STOLEN IN CHEHALIS BURGLARY
• Approximately $1,400 of Washington State lottery scratch tickets were discovered missing after a sheriff’s deputy responded to a business burglary alarm early Saturday morning outside Chehalis. The deputy found somebody had entered the unnamed business on the 1100 block of Highway 6 through a broken window, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning.
BURGLARIES IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called after somebody broke into a building on the 1400 block of Lum Road and stole clothing. Details about how much and exactly what was taken weren’t initially available, as the owner of the goods being stored there wasn’t the individual who called police on Sunday morning, according to police Sgt. Stacy Denham.
• Centralia police took a report of a security camera stolen from a business on the 800 block of B Street at mid-day on Sunday.
• A laptop computer and two gold rings were reported missing from a hotel room on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia on Saturday evening.
• Jobie K. Watson, 24, of Centralia, was arrested after she allegedly got into a locked camper at her mother’s home on the 900 block of Ham Hill Road in Centralia and made off with a check and a handful of Oxycontin and other pills, according to Centralia police. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham.
POLICE FIND PIPE, DRUG RESIDUE
• Alicia A. Oleachea, 29, of Centralia, was arrested after she was contacted by police responding to a report of someone cutting though yards and climbing fences in the area of the 300 block of Noel Avenue in Centralia about noon on Saturday. A search turned up a suspected methamphetamine pipe with residue and she was booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham.
VANDALS HIT CHEHALIS VEHICLES
• Chehalis police were called about 5:40 a.m. on Sunday by a woman who said she woke up to find tires slashed on both her and her husband’s vehicles. Just after noon, police took another call about slashed tires at an address unrevealed by police and the same officer dealt with four other incidents shortly after of third-degree malicious mischief. It’s not clear from Chehalis police information if all were slashed tires. Further details were unavailable.
FOUND MARIJUANA
• Eight marijuana plants were taken away by a deputy to be destroyed after a resident walking to his mailbox spotted several potted plants near his driveway on Friday afternoon on the 5000 block of 222nd Avenue Southwest outside Centralia, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. The resident described damage to his own plantings and tire tracks that looked as though a vehicle had driven away quickly, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said.
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