PRESCRIPTION DRUG FUNNY BUSINESS
• Chehalis police were called by a woman yesterday who said someone filled her prescription for hydrocodone at Rite Aid. The victim had called the pharmacy to have her prescription transferred to another state where she now lives and learned someone else last week had picked up the pills in her name, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police got a phone call from a pharmacist yesterday who reported a suspected fraudulent attempt to fill a prescription. A female who said she was from Providence St. Peter Hospital called in a prescription for a male but the Rite Aid pharmacist was suspicious, even though she had given a proper identification number, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The doctor confirmed they did not call it in, according to police. The case is under investigation.
BURGLARY
• Cash and a computer were reported stolen in a burglary at the 500 block of West Pear Street in Centralia yesterday. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE THEFT
• The owner of a 2002 International box truck learned it was stolen yesterday morning after it was found rolled over into a ditch on state Route 505 and South Military Road in Winlock. Law enforcement officers arriving after the approximately 10:30 a.m. wreck found no driver, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They were told a worker known only as “Pedro” stole it to go to the store, according to the sheriff’s office. The truck’s owner, Champion Greens, has contract employees cutting cedar boughs on Wepsala Road, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The damage was estimated at $3,500, Brown said.
• A green 2005 Arctic Cat 400 ATV was reported stolen from property on the 200 block of Lake Creek Road in Chehalis yesterday. Its owner told a deputy it disappeared sometime after 9 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 a.m. yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
RACIST GRAFFITI REPORTED
• An officer was called yesterday about 2 p.m. regarding racial slurs “tagged” onto the back of a building on the 700 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. A police spokesperson said no details were available because a report on the incident is not yet written.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Police took a report from the 1100 block of Elm Street in Centralia yesterday of a car prowl. Missing are some CDs, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police took a report yesterday of a window broken out of a vehicle during the night on Northeast Scenic Way. Nothing was missing, according to police.