SKIER DIES AT WHITE PASS
• A skier died after apparently falling head first into a “tree well” at White Pass on Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies called to the area learned the woman had been skiing with friends around 3 p.m. and she didn’t turn up at the bottom of the slopes, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The ski patrol found her buried in the soft snow beneath a tree in an area known as the West Ridge and life saving efforts were attempted but the 22-year-old woman from Yakima died, the sheriff’s office said. The Yakima-Herald Republic [1] identified her as KyOna Hoff, an experienced skier who worked at the resort.
THEFT
• More than $4,000 of tools and other items were stolen from the B and M Logging shop on the 1900 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Ethel over the weekend, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the items missing were a dozen or more aluminum wheels, 200 feet of welding wire, light cords, a drill and two power saws, according to the sheriff’s office.
• Three teenagers were arrested after the owner of a travel trailer on the 100 block of Beckie Lane near Napavine called 911 when he saw a burglary being committed on live security footage viewed remotely from Renton on Friday night, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A neighbor saw three subjects all wearing “hoodies” run north through the trees and one of the suspects was subsequently spotted walking on Romerman Road, the sheriff’s office said. Two 17-year-olds were booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for theft of a firearm an other related crimes, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A 16-year-old was booked for burglary and a related offense, according to Brown.
• Police were called just before 7 a.m. yesterday to a burglary at a house on the 500 block of South Ash Street in Centralia. Someone had broken a window and left with two television sets, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone broke a window on door to get inside a house on the 400 block of Yew Street in Centralia and stole a game system and games, according to the Centralia Police Department. The burglary was reported about 10 p.m. on Saturday.
• Police were called just after 8 p.m. on Friday to the 700 block of Northwest Ohio Avenue in Chehalis where a computer, an iPod and their chargers had been stolen.
• Police took a report about 11:25 a.m. on Friday of a car prowl on the 400 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia. A window had been broken out, according to police.
VEHICLE VERSUS PEDESTRIANS
• A man and a woman in a crosswalk on the 500 block of Market Boulevard in Chehalis were struck by a pickup truck around 9 p.m. on Friday, according to police. They were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police. It’s not clear if the 50-year-old Chehalis driver was cited, according to a police department spokesperson.
FRAUD
• Police were called to the Bank of America on the 100 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia about 10:35 a.m. on Friday because someone was trying to cash what was believed to be a forged check, and four Centralia residents were detained. Three women were arrested and booked for forgery, according to the Centralia Police Department. They are Rita F. Masters, 48, Janice M. Lester, 49, and Jessica D. Wilke, 34, Officer John Panco said. The case of a 53-year-old man with them was referred for the same charge, Panco said. The amount of the check they attempted to cash was not noted. Masters was also arrested for possession of methamphetamine, and Lester for possession of meth and heroin, Panco said.
HIT AND RUN SUSPECT APPREHENDED BY K-9
• A 20-year-old man was arrested for multiple offenses after he reportedly sped away from a police car and then crashed into two vehicles about 5:30 a.m. on Saturday in Centralia. An officer was going to pull over Galen R. Whitmire for a defective headlight when he was spotted near Yew and Main streets, but Whitmore headed north blowing a stop sign before hitting an SUV traveling on Alder Street and a parked vehicle and then fleeing on foot, according to Officer John Panco. Whitmire was subsequently found by a police dog hiding in some bushes along Long Road, Panco said. Because the Centralia man’s passenger had wanted out of his vehicle during the short pursuit, Whitmire was arrested for unlawful imprisonment as well as attempting to elude and hit and run, according to Panco. He was also booked for possession of suspected methamphetamine, according to Panco. The woman driving the SUV sustained only minor injuries, police said.