Updated at 3:26 p.m.
POLICE: DAD BREAKS BABY’S LEG
• A 20-year-old Centralia father was arrested after his 5-month-old baby girl was treated yesterday morning at the emergency room for a broken leg. Centralia police called to Providence Centralia Hospital said Lincoln K. Hollis admitted “probably he was a little too aggressive when changing the baby’s diaper,” officer John Panco said. Hollis had brought the baby to the hospital, according to Panco. The child was transferred to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Hollis was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault of a child, Panco said.
THEFT OF WIRING
• Someone broke into a fenced compound over the weekend at the 3000 block of Foron Road in Centralia and stole more then 400 feet of electrical wire and welding cable, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called yesterday morning to Dulin Construction was told someone cut a padlock to the front gate and also used a sledge hammer to try to get money from a pop machine, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The loss is estimated at more than $2,400, Brown said.
VANDALISM
• Police arrested a 19-year-old Centralia woman for allegedly slashing a tire on her ex-boyfriend’s vehicle on the 1000 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia last night. Malyse Bussanich said she was angry, Officer John Panco said. She was cited for third-degree malicious mischief and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 43-year-old woman who reportedly tried to leave Safeway in Centralia with more than $100 of unpaid for merchandise last night was arrested for shoplifting and subsequently for possession of heroin, according to the Centralia Police Department. Rebecca S. Rycraft, of Olympia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. How much of the drug found wasn’t noted in a police report, according to Officer John Panco.
WRECK
• The driver of a pickup truck was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for evaluation after a collision with a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 12 in Ethel yesterday morning. It happened near Oyler Road about 8 a.m., according to the Washington State Patrol. One of the big rig’s fuel tanks fell off and spilled roughly 20 gallons of fuel, according to state patrol Sgt. Lucas Brandon.
Tenino man still not found
• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office conducted a “thorough search” on Friday of the Tenino-area home and property belonging to 66-year-old Victor Shumate, missing [1] since mid-January. He was not found, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Brady. Shumate has a home on the 17000 block of Mima Acres Drive Southeast and gets around by foot and bicycle. The sheriff’s office last week asked the public for information on his whereabouts, as his neighbors have not seen him since Jan. 13.