ASSAULTS
• Several individuals held a 22-year-old man down in a Centralia street until police arrived following an alleged assault in which he reportedly swung a wallet chain at a neighbor who tried to put a stop to an argument between the man and his girlfriend. Officers called just after 2 p.m. yesterday to the 1000 block of South Tower Avenue were told Jacob Holmgren’s chain hit the 36-year-old neighbor in the back, according to the Centralia Police Department. The injury was minor, according to police. Holmgren was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault, according to police.
• A 34-year-old Centralia man was arrested for second-degree assault after allegedly choking his girlfriend during a fight on Saturday night in Centralia, according to police. Jose L. Navarro Jr. was booked into the Lewis County Jail following the incident at the 1400 block of Johnson Road, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police are looking for a 29-year-old Centralia man after they learned his girlfriend was kicked in the head numerous times until she blacked out. Officers called Friday night about the assault at the 1400 block of Johnson Road were told he was upset because she didn’t bail him out of jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. She was taken to the hospital to be evaluated, Officer John Panco said.
• A 25-year-old woman was arrested for second-degree assault for allegedly using a pair of scissors to stab her boyfriend in the thigh in Packwood on Saturday. The victim told a deputy he thought she was intoxicated and was “out of control” during a dispute, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Amy L. Birka was arrested later in Glenoma and then booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The prosecutor’s office declined to charge her with a felony, and is evaluating the case for a misdemeanor charge.
BURGLARY
• A resident of the 1300 block of West Main Street in Centralia returned home from work just before 7 a.m. yesterday to discover a burglary but then found police had already recovered the stolen property. Earlier, an officer had come upon a pair of teenage boys on South Tower Avenue carrying duffel bags with a bunch of stuff inside and found it unusual, according to, according to the Centralia Police Department. They said the binoculars, medication, jewelry box and other items belonged to a relative, but the officer took the bags and suggested they have the relative call the police department to claim the goods, Officer John Panco said. Someone had apparently gotten into the home through an unlocked door, according to police. No arrests had been made as of yesterday, police reported.
• Centralia police took a report of a burglary on Saturday evening from a home on the 900 block of Marion Street. “Various items” were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called about 12:45 p.m. on Saturday to a burglary discovered at the 1200 block of Logan Street in Centralia. Among the missing items were jewelry, DVD movies and home electronics, according to police.
• A portable safe containing vehicle titles was stolen in a burglary on the 500 block of Burchett Road in Onalaska sometime between March 30 and last Wednesday, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. It was reported on Friday night.
VEHICLE THEFT
• A $25,000 service truck discovered missing Friday from Miles and Sons on the 100 block of Labree Road was found on Saturday near Longview stripped and set on fire. Almost $9,000 worth of tools also missing were not recovered, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• The owner of a stolen pickup truck with a flatbed trailer carrying another vehicle called police on Saturday when she found them stuck and abandoned off Blair Road north of Centralia. The woman, who was at home on the 1000 block of F Street in Centralia, didn’t even know they were missing until someone came knocking on her door, according to the Centralia Police Department. A police department spokesperson said he didn’t know who the person was at the door was or how they knew where her vehicles were.
WALLET THEFT
• A 33-year-old man from Elma was arrested for theft and possession of stolen property on Saturday in connection with a reported visit earlier in the week to a home in an RV park on the 3300 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. An individual had invited Jeremy L. Keith in to talk about purchasing another trailer and Keith reportedly used the resident’s cell phone before leaving with it, a wallet and some keys, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The victim found his debit card had been used at least five times at gas stations in the Centralia area, Brown said.
CAR PROWLS
• Police were called about 1:15 a.m. today after two individuals were seen near the 100 block of North Diamond Street in Centralia trying to get into several cars on the block. They were seen leaving in a red “import car” with an “off-color” left front fender, according to the Centralia Police Department. No arrests were made.
• Somebody threw a brick through the window of a vehicle parked on the 500 block of North Rock Street and stole a Carhart jacket from inside, according to a report made to Centralia police on Saturday morning.
DRUGS
• A drug sniffing dog from Winlock discovered suspected heroin in a vehicle following a attempted traffic stop late Friday afternoon on the 700 block of West Main Street in Centralia. The 24-year-old driver ran away from the vehicle and was not found, according to Centralia police.
WRECK
• A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized after her motorcycle wrecked just before 5 p.m. yesterday on Southwest Cascade Avenue at First Street. It appeared she hit a curb and suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.
FIRE
• Lewis County Fire District 15 was called yesterday afternoon to a fire at one of their own firefighters homes. Assistant Chief Kevin Anderson said fellow firefighter Patrick Jacobson got a phone call from his fiancee who said there was fire in the furnace, told her to hang up and call 911. Jacobson called his step-father, Fire Chief Russ Larson, who arrived at the two-story house on the 500 block of Rhodes Road and used a fire extinguisher to put it out, Anderson said. It burned a little bit of a wall, Anderson said.
SELF-EXTRICATION
• Winlock firefighters were called on Saturday afternoon by a woman in a mobile home who said her washing machine walked across the hallway and blocked her in a bathroom. She called back and had gotten herself out, according to Lewis County Fire District 15.