{"id":13126,"date":"2012-07-03T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2012-07-03T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:42:42","slug":"trooper-assaulted-on-interstate-5-at-chehalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13126","title":{"rendered":"Trooper assaulted on Interstate 5 at Chehalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; An off-duty police officer and another passerby intervened when a state trooper and a pedestrian scuffled on the side of Interstate 5 at Chehalis this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Aid, and perhaps as many as a half dozen police officers, responded about 6:25 p.m. to the southbound off ramp at Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Neither were seriously injured, according to responders.<\/p>\n<p>Washington State Patrol spokesperson Trooper Ryan Tanner said he didn&#8217;t yet know many details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t know why the contact, or why the scuffle,&#8221; Tanner said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper&#8217;s glasses were broken when he was hit just below his eye with some kind of metallic object, like a lug nut, Tanner said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper, whose identity was not released, declined to go to the hospital, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. It wasn&#8217;t the kind of injury that required stitches, Fire Capt. Rob Gebhart said.<\/p>\n<p>The other individual had only scrapes, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The passersby took the individual into custody, Tanner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; An off-duty police officer and another passerby intervened when a state trooper and a pedestrian scuffled on the side of Interstate 5 at Chehalis this evening. Aid, and perhaps as many as a half dozen police officers, responded about 6:25 p.m. to the southbound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}