INDUSTRIAL BUILDING STRIPPED OF WIRING
• A potential buyer who sent an electrician to inspect a building on Northwest Maryland Avenue in Chehalis called police yesterday after the discovery someone stole wiring. “A person entered the building and ripped a lot of the electrical wiring out, and some of the copper plumbing,” Chehalis police Sgt. Rick McNamara said. The large shop building has been vacant, but previously housed Cummins Northwest, McNamara said. “They’re getting an estimate, it’s pretty extensive,” he said.
ALARM THWARTS BURGLAR
• Deputies were called about 7:40 a.m. yesterday to an interrupted burglary to a shop building on the 2200 block of Blair Road in Centralia. The door was kicked in but an alarm apparently scared off the intruder, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A K-9 track indicated whoever it was must have left in a vehicle, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
OUTDOOR CAMERA STOLEN
• A 25-year-old Chehalis man called the sheriff’s office after a newly installed game camera at the back of his mother’s property on the 1100 block of North Fork Road was stolen. The $200 camera was put up at noon on Friday and when he returned home on Sunday was gone, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
NEW BIKE TAKEN
• A brand new bicycle – a brown Hybrid Trek FX2 21-speed – was reported stolen about 7:20 a.m. today from the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia, according to police.
MAILBOX PILFERED
• Centralia police were called just before noon yesterday about theft of mail from a residential address on the 2200 block of Ham Hill Road.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter