GO, GO, GO!
• Chehalis police chased down a group of individuals who fled after one of them allegedly fought with security personnel trying to hold on to the Dr. Scholes shoe inserts he shoplifted from Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon. It happened about 2:40 p.m. when the suspect hopped into a vehicle and they all began shouting, “Go, go, go,” according to police Sgt. Gwen Carrell. The female driver headed to the Twin City Town Center where she parked and all four bodies scattered to the wind, Carrell said. Carrell said she believed one woman was caught running towards K-Mart, another over on Louisiana Avenue and Tyler Geist, 26, of Centralia, was found behind the building. Geist was arrested and booked for second-degree robbery, Carrell said; robbery instead of misdemeanor theft because he struggled with a store employee. Rosa M. Sanchez-Anderson, 21, of Chehalis was arrested for a warrant plus obstruction and Desiree Prue, 30, of Centralia, was arrested for a warrant, according to police. It happened at shift change, so there were twice as many officers as usual out and about, according to Carrell.
UNSAVORY FRIENDS?
• Chehalis police were called to a residence on Southwest Pacific Avenue late Saturday afternoon where a woman reported her laptop computer and money were missing. The victim said other items had disappeared as well, such as five silver rings as well as a white gold ring with a purple stone, according to the Chehalis Police Department. “She doesn’t know if it’s the company she keeps or someone is breaking in,” police Sgt. Gwen Carrell said.
BURGLED IN WINLOCK
• A deputy took a report last night of a burglary at the 800 block of King Road in Winlock. Two metal detectors with headsets and a camera tri-pod went missing from just inside a sliding glass door sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
PAIN MED THEFT
• Centralia police were called to the 1000 block of Centralia Avenue on Sunday about Oxycontin pills stolen from an individual.
FRAUD
• Centralia police took a report of unauthorized charges to an individual’s credit card on Sunday afternoon from a person at the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road.
YOU CAN RUN, BUT SO CAN LOBO
• Police responding to a night time call about a prowler seen on a roof in the area of St. Joseph Church in Chehalis early yesterday morning subsequently caught up to a 29-year-old Centralia man wanted on an outstanding warrant. It happened just after 1 a.m. around Southwest Cascade Avenue. Russell E. Charnell reportedly ran from Centralia Officer Ruben Ramirez but was apprehended by Ramirez’s K-9 partner Lobo as he tried to jump a fence into someone’s yard, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME …
• A business on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia called police about 11 p.m. last night following the discovery it had accepted a phony $20 bill from a female customer whose first name is known to them.
PARK PRANKS
• Police took a report of vandalism at the skate park on the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning. Several signs were pulled up, bushes damaged and graffiti left there, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR GONE
• Centralia police took a report of a blue Honda missing from the 2800 block of Russell Road in Centralia at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Two power drills were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Southwest 20th Street in Chehalis sometime between Saturday night and Sunday, according to police.
READY-TO-GO CAMPING KIT
• Police were called just before 10 a.m. on Saturday to the Best Western motel on Southwest Interstate Avenue in Chehalis where a bunch of camping gear was stolen from the the back of a canopied truck. A window was broken, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Among the missing items were a Coleman stove, an orange backpack with clothing in it, two Marmot sleeping bags and an REI orange and white dome tent, according to police.
CAR PROWL CENTRAL
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said today people should just not leave their cars parked around the 200 block of Highway 603 near the Rails to Trails trailhead. It’s an area that car prowlers target, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. A deputy was called last night by a man who said broke a window out of his Hyundai while his son was winning there. Missing is a cell phone, a key and a iPod with charger, Brown said.
THREAT TO KILL AND OVERDOSE
• Centralia police spent more than a half hour yesterday morning trying to talk a barricaded subject out of his bedroom on the 600 block of South Rock Street. The 44-year-old man had allegedly attempted to kill his brother with a knife, and also taken an overdose of pain medication, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police Sgt. Carl Buster said the brother had locked himself in a bathroom and escaped out the window. An officer was able to get in his room to talk further, and the man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to police. Police are referring the case to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office for a possible charge of first-degree assault.
BURNING BUG, SUV
• A Dodge Dakota SUV and an older VW bug burnt up yesterday morning inside the fenced property at Prairie Storage on the 100 block of Washington Way in Centralia. Riverside Fire Authority called about 9:50 a.m. found one vehicle fully involved in flames spreading to the second vehicle, according to Fire Chief Jim Walkowski. It was a challenge to put out because the fire was behind a locked security fence, according to Walkowski. The cause is under investigation but not suspicious, Walkowski said.
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CORRECTION: This has been updated and corrected to reflect that Centralia resident Tyler Geist, who was arrested after a shoplifting incident at Wal-Mart is 26 years old, not 27 as Chehalis police erroneously reported.
[1]Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority