CHEHALIS ESPRESSO STAND HIT BY THIEF, AGAIN
• The owner of Ooh La Latte coffee stand on the 1500 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis arrived to work early this morning to find someone had burglarized her business again. They broke a sliding window and made off with $600 cash which had been hidden, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It is believed to have occurred sometime after 5 p.m. yesterday and before 4 o’clock this morning, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. Last Wednesday morning, someone broke in and stole the cash drawer, with about $200, according to Brown.
VEHICLE VERSUS WHEELCHAIR
• A man in a wheelchair struck in a crosswalk by a car yesterday afternoon by Safeway in Chehalis suffered only minor injuries but was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It happened about 5 p.m., it was dark and the driver couldn’t see him, Sgt. Brian Hickey said. The victim is an older gentleman who lives in the area, according to Hickey. “It sounds like he is going to be okay,” Hickey said this morning.
JEWELRY MISSING
• Centralia police were called about 5:40 p.m. yesterday to a home on the 2500 block of Sharon Street where a ring was missing after a houseguest had been staying there. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called to the 1200 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia yesterday morning where someone had broken a window out of a car overnight.
WRECKS
• A 20-year-old Centralia woman was hospitalized after she wrecked her car on Friday afternoon at the 2600 block of Highway 603 north of Winlock, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. A deputy responding about 2:20 p.m. was told the Oldsmobile Cutlass hydroplaned and left the road, according to the sheriff’s office. An approximately 3-month-old baby in a car seat was not injured but the woman complained of neck and back pain, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• One person was hospitalized after a two-vehicle collision at the top of the southbound Interstate 5 exit on state Route 505 near Winlock yesterday afternoon. Aid called just before 3 p.m. found heavy front end damage to a passenger car and its driver – an older gentleman – with suspected chest injuries, according to Lewis County Fire District 15. His passenger and the driver of a pickup truck were treated at the scene, Assistant Chief Kevin Anderson said. “Visibility in that area sometimes tends to be a little obscured for some folks,” Anderson said, referring to cars that sit lower. At first firefighters thought the patient might need to be airlifted to a regional trauma center but then decided his injuries were less serious, so he was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, Anderson said.