BURGLARY AND OTHER THEFT
• A deputy was called yesterday to a warehouse at Mossyrock Dam where someone had stolen nuts, bolts and an unknown number of six-foot-long “cooling cores”. An employee of Tacoma City Light said someone cut chains on a gate to get inside the property off Young Road then pulled back sheet metal siding to get inside, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Whoever it was apparently used a forklift to move large crate to a loading door, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The cores which are tubular and have “fins” are used to cool generators at the dam. The dollar amount of the loss is not yet known, but they suspect the items were taken for their scrap value, Brown said.
• Police were called about 11 a.m. yesterday to a burglary at a home on the 900 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. Taken was a violin and its case as well as a digital camera and other items, according to the Centralia Police Department. Someone had broken through the back door, according to police.
• A 50-inch flat screen television was stolen from a home on the 100 block of Hideaway Hills Lane in Centralia sometime between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• A deputy was called yesterday evening to a burglary at a home on the 100 block of Sandy Boulevard in Centralia. Taken was a television, a Glock .40 caliber handgun and a portable safe containing passports, birth certificates, checks and other items, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A back door had been left unlocked, according to the sheriff’s office.
• Police were called about 7:30 p.m. yesterday to an apartment on the 600 block of Dobson Court in Chehalis after a firearm went missing. The HP semi-automatic pistol and its lock box belonging to a 21-year-old man were taken sometime during that day, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Several people had been in and out of the residence and a door had been unlocked, according to police.
• A deputy was called yesterday afternoon to the 100 block of Aumick Court in Vader after a property owner discovered his black dune buggy had been stolen. The Castle Rock resident told the deputy it was stored under an awning and must have been taken since Sunday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $1,500.
• Fishing poles and a duffel bag were stolen from a shed on the 900 block of South Silver Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 11 a.m. yesterday. The lock had been cut, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called just after 5 p.m. yesterday to a car prowl on Southwest Ninth Street just west of Market Boulevard. Sunglasses and paperwork were taken, according to the Chehalis Police Department,
• Centralia police were called about 9:40 a.m. yesterday to a car prowl on the 300 block of West Summa Street. Nothing seemed to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 25-year-old man from Rochester was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after police went to a house on the 700 block of West Main Street in Centralia looking for someone with a warrant last night. Officers saw methamphetamine and a small amount of marijuana near Cory R. Aldrich and booked him into the Lewis County Jail, according to Officer John Panco.
WRECK
• A 28-year-old Yelm resident was hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck at Cousins and Twin Oaks roads west of Chehalis yesterday morning. The driver said she was traveling north and could not stop for a stop sign before her car hit an embankment and ended up in a field, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The unnamed driver had a mouth injury and chest pain, according to the sheriff’s office. Her car sustained moderate damage, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The driver was cited for no license, no insurance and for disobeying the traffic sign, Brown said.