AUTO THEFT
• A 32-year-old Shelton woman who rented a vehicle on Friday from an auto rental business on the 500 block of East Summa Street in Centralia discovered that evening her car which she had left parked behind the building was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department. She got an SUV fro Enterprise Rent-A-Car to go shopping in Seattle and later got a phone call asking if she had picked up her car, according to police. She hadn’t. Missing is a blue 1993 Honda Civic with a license plate of 812 UID, according to police.
COPPER WIRE THEFT
• An estimated $4,000 worth of copper wire was stolen in yet another theft from a rock crushing company on the 3000 block of Foron Road in Centralia, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called to Dulin Construction on Friday was told 40 feet of wire was missing, according to the sheriff office.
LOTS OF DIFFERENT STUFF STOLEN
• A pistol, two chainsaws, old fishing reels, a Yamaha snow sled and four studded tires with wheels for a Honda Accord were among the items stolen in a burglary on the 400 block of Schmit Road outside Toledo on Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and the sheriff’s office was told an individual with a backpack on a bicycle was seen in the area around that time, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
MOWERS MISSING
• Three Toro brand self-propelled lawnmowers were reported stolen from a home on the 300 block of Downing Road in Centralia yesterday. They were taken sometime during the previous two week, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GARAGE THEFT
• Centralia police took a report on Saturday evening from the 600 block of Jefferson Street in Centralia about a leaf blower and a standup freezer stolen from a garage sometime during the previous week.
WHISKEY SHOPLIFTED
• Police called about 6:45 p.m. on Saturday to the 500 block of South Market Boulevard in Chehalis were told a teenage boy had just run out of the store with a bottle of whiskey. He was not found but officers will review surveillance video to see if they recognize him, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
ASSAULT RIFLE AND SKATEBOARD
• Chehalis police were called just before 3 p.m. on Saturday and told one of three three teenage boys might be carrying an AR-15-style rifle wrapped in a sweatshirt as well as a skateboard in the area of Southwest First Street and Phillips Court. The teens were not located, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Police were called about 2:15 a.m. today to the 600 block of Jackson Street in Centralia where someone had gotten inside a pickup truck and stolen a stereo as well as part of the dashboard it was connected to. It happened sometime after 10 p.m., according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• A 24-year-old Rochester woman was arrested for possession of heroin about 3:25 a.m. on Saturday at the 700 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. An officer who contacted Kira M. Fry because of a suspend driver’s license booked her into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 19-year-old Chehalis resident who went to the Chehalis Police Department on Friday on an unrelated matter was arrested for delivery of a controlled substance in connection with an investigation which resulted in a search warrant for drugs earlier in the day at a home on Southwest First Street near Market Boulevard, according to police. When he was arrested, an unspecified prescription pill was found in Nicholas A. Huston’s pocket, detective Sgt. Brian Hickey said. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
VANDALISM
• Someone was seen leaving graffiti on a city-owned building on West Seventh and North Washington Avenue in Centralia just before 8 p.m. yesterday but fled before an officer arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called to the 1300 block of South Schueber Road in Centralia where someone spray painted orange paint in the neighborhood.
• Police were called about 9:45 a.m. on Friday to the 1500 block of Oxford Avenue in Centralia where someone left graffiti on a house for sale. Someone crossed out some old “Sur 13-type graffiti” with a message about “white power”, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday to the 1400 block of Johnson Road in Centralia where an individual found chocolate syrup and eggs on their door.
WRECKS
• A 20-year-old man was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital then to jail for DUI after a single-vehicle accident on the 800 block of Gish Road in Onalaska around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. Charles E. Evans III was driving a 1983 Ford pickup which sustained major damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’ Office. The truck landed in a field behind a house and a 19-year-old Onalaska man – Dylan Brossett – who tried to block an arriving deputy from coming up the driveway was arrested also, for obstructing, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
• An 18-year-old from Eatonville was uninjured and not ticketed after his 2001 Saturn left Skate Creek Road and landed about 100 feet down an embankment on Friday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office says it does not know why the driver lost control of his vehicle.
• A 34-year-old Chehalis woman escaped with scratches on her arm when she missed a turn in downtown Chehalis, ran into a tree and put her car upside down on Friday evening. It happened about 7:15 p.m. near Sterling Savings Bank on North Market Boulevard, according to police. The Buick Skylark suffered damage to its front, top and both sides, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
WTF ?? Any body out there have a clue what that last comment was about ??? Weren’t we talking about burglary ?
People die every day. Who cares? Let’s just take every criminal and kill them. Let’s just say F you to their moms and dads, sisters brothers, babies cousins, etc.
They won’t work! They’re not slaves. Those blacks need to get back to work with the mexicans because EVERYONE knows the millionairs get off with restitution only.
But that’s okay with the sick f’rs in Lewis County. They say, “Go ahead and rape my daughters, just as long as they can pay their fines!”
But then they turn around to a poor mentally ill young man and say, “F you! YOu go to prison AND pay your restitution all because you can’t afford an attorney!!! HAHAHAH!!”
Nice little system you have there.
Lewis County needs to be investigated by the U.S. Justice Dept.
I’m guessing you glossed by this from my first post: “No question that there are legitimate claims being filed for a number of benefits.”
Never having applied for welfare even while unemployed, I wouldn’t have a clue as to how you qualify for it. Mom and Dad didn’t always fire on eight cylinders while raising me, but they did manage to teach me that society owes me nothing. You apparently believe otherwise.
Please give me a rundown on how WA pays people to “not work”. Mothers with children receive assistance. Disabled people get assistance. Unemployment (federal benefit, not state) for those out of work. GAU was discontinued quite some time ago so that is no longer there. I keep hearing about “welfare”. What is the criteria? Who gets it and how?
The sad thing is that with so much money being appropriated for “public assistance” (and there are a LOT of things that fall under that gategory), there are many people who’ve made a career out of ensuring that taxpayers subsidize them.
No question that there are legitimate claims being filed for a number of benefits (and I don’t begrudge anyone getting their mandatory “investments” back from Social Security or Medicare), but the problem I have lies with able-bodied people who refuse to even look for work because they can make money by NOT working. Getting paid to not work is easy compared to having to actually earn it, and you certainly don’t need a teaspoon of pride to do it.
Tommy Orr says “To simply make someone work because they broke a law is retarded.”
Sure, let’s not make someone in jail or prison get off their butts and do something to repay their debt to society. Let’s just give them “three hots and a cot” and not get anything from them in return.
And “chain gangs” ARE legal…. there are a LOT of jails and prisons that use inmates for labor… who else do you think is going to go out there and pick up all that trash on the side of the road?
And the last I looked, Lewis County was NOT in Alaska.
Right back atcha Morning coffee !!!
I did my time, I worked for everything I have, I built a retirement… albeit it quite small, but I don’t live off other people or the government. Nor do I expect anyone else or the government to support me. And by the way, when the government supports you, it isn’t the government… it’s the taxpayers. And that includes disability, welfare, food stamps, court appointed attorneys, medicare, medicaid, subsidized housing, and the many, many other assistance programs many rely upon as if it were they’re “right” to take from others. I realize there are many who are in the unfortunate position to need public assistance. But public assistance is not intended for gain… it is intended as a safety net just to get by. In fact, when I was a young single mother I needed child care assistance to be able to go to work… I went to work, worked my up and very quickly was able to get off assistance and support myself and my child. So, you see, we live in a society that values help to others. Some need assistance for life due to medical conditions… our society accepts that. But we do not accept continually assisting people who have no gratitude for what is being provided to them, and perhaps continually break the rules of a civilized and giving society. All we ask is that each and every person do their BEST to contribute in a positive way. Seems there are many people upset with the way Lewis County is operated. It’s a big wide open country… those people should find a community that they like and go there. Go to Alaska if that’s the model you like best. It’s a free country, you can live wherever you wish. You can even choose to move to a socialistic country where you might be more comfortable with their government. And by the way, I’m not talking shit to you, I’m just responding to what you yourself post. I just wish you could be a happier person. But no one can give happiness to you, you have to find that within yourself.
Orr if you detest all us folks in Lewis Co. so much why don’t you take it down the road ??? When I get home from my job , where I do help people all day, I guess my ass has a right to be on my computer. If people want to steal instead of work for a living they can join you in your trip .
Hey, it works in ALASKA. People get a check for NATURAL RESOURCES that belong to EVERYBODY.
Quit being such a ninny.
I want people like YOU to get up off your asses and change the world YOURSELF instead of relying on other people to do it for you.
The government needs to take care of its citizens rather than throw them into the street destitute just so people like YOU can talk shit to them.
So, Tommy, you want the govt to cut you a check just for being alive. I thought you wanted everyone to get off their asses and work for themselves.
And “chain gangs” are NOT allowed in the South or anyplace else in the United States.
The people on the chain are given either a reduction in sentence or credit on restitution.
To simply make someone work because they broke a law is retarded.
I wish more citizens had the MONEY to defend themselves.
There’s enough natural resources in this here great United States to cut EVERY CITIZEN a decent check just for being a goddamned citizen!!!
I wish people would quit blaming others for the problems of SOCIETY and LEWIS COUNTY in particular.
I wish more citizens would defend themselves instead of depending on govt. I hear something go bump in the night, I go investigate it. My neighbors dog barks, I go investigate why, not call the cops. It’s not vigilante, its called freedom.
The chain-gangs are alive and well in the south. Nobody complains about it. Yes slavery is outlawed but these are not slaves. Prisoners made a choice to do something illegal and must suffer the consequences.
I guess he’s ok now and fully recovered from his remorse.
No, it’s because the 14th amendment to the Constitution forbids slavery.
But the idiot simple folk in lewis county don’t know nuthin’ bout dat.
Seems like John McCroskey had a chain gang going for a while. What happened to them? Did the unions object because the inmates were taking jobs from dues-paying members?
Sounds to me like ya’ll need to get off the computer and work your own asses off to make YOUR world better instead of fantasizing about slavery and chain gangs.
Right on, Sunshinegirl!!!
I find it interesting how people seem to think jail is a pleasant experience. Like the food is remotely good. Or that the beds are even fit to be slept in. Or as far as I know (since I’ve never been) Lewis County Jail doesn’t even have TV let alone cable. So before talking out your ass and looking like one get the facts straight.
Also, believe me Ridge there are plenty of people who have done asinine amounts of time for minor drug charges. Then you have doctors, who are in many ways dealers, receiving kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies being referred to as pillars of the community while making huge money. I have never heard of a street dealer who marks up their “product” near as much as what our medical industry does.
I agree with sunshinegirl, except for the part about tattooing the bad guys. Instead, give ’em bright pink jumpsuits to wear while they are doing all the hard work…. we might even be able to have decent roads to drive on!
But, the liberal ninnies who run things won’t permit prison inmates to be subjected to such degrading things as working to pay off their debt to society…. they’d rather give them free room and board, free cable tv, free education…..
Then we will have every bum who wants three hots and a cot bustin our doors down. We need to make them work their ass’s off and make restitution to the people they steal from and the state . Put them on a chain gang like in the old days, all the road repair , forest repair , clean-up , all of it. Don’t make it boring , make it HARD backbreaking work !!! Tattoo a big bright blue
Thief across their forehead. Make ’em work 8 0r 10 hour days ,6 0r 7 days a week . Then they might understand how hard it is for folks to attain the things they rip off with no regard. We probably wouldn’t need to give them 20 years if we made them really pay for those crimes. You do not even know what I want to do to the pedophiles
The only way Lewis County will see a reduction in Burglary’s is to put the perpetrators in prison for a minimum of 20 years every time they get caught stealing. Lewis County citizens need to elect judges that will hand out real long sentences for drugs and Burglary’s.