DRUGS
• A 44-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine last night in Centralia, according to police. Ronnie L. Lawrence was booked into the Lewis County Jail after contact with an officer about 7:15 p.m. at North Gold Street and Roswell Road, according to the Centralia Police Department. Lawrence’s case was also referred for a potential charge of driving under the influence, according to police.
• A 50-year-old Rochester man was booked for possession of controlled substance after a traffic stop about 9 o’clock last night at Southwest 11th Street and Cascade Avenues in Chehalis. Stephen D. Gentz was found to have a warrant and a syringe was subsequently found on him, according to police. A drug dog “alerted” on is car and a search turned up some “crystalline matter and some vegetable matter”, Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
THEFT
• Grounding wire was cut from a power pole at the 1000 block of Davis Lake Road in Morton, according to a report made to the sheriff’s office yesterday. It happened sometime between Dec. 1 and yesterday. The loss is estimated at $150, according to the Lewis County Sherif’s Office.
• Centralia police were called about 10:50 a.m. yesterday to the 300 block of North Tower Avenue where someone had broken out a window of a vehicle and stolen an HP laptop computer.