K9 TRACKS DOWN FOUR TEENS WHO FLED CAR
• A police dog was summoned after an officer attempted to contact the occupants of a vehicle in a parking lot just after 1 a.m. today and the five people inside fled. It happened near North Schueber and Russell roads in Centralia. Officer Ruben Ramirez and his partner Lobo tracked down four of the subjects, boys ages 15, 16, and 17, according to the Centralia Police Department. Inside the vehicle was marijuana and a pipe, according to police. The 17-year-old was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center for taking a motor vehicle – his parent’s – without permission, according to Sgt. Kurt Reichert. Other potential charges are pending, according to police. Only one of the boys sustained a superficial wound from contact with the police dog, according to Reichert.
THEFT
• Police were called to a home on the 1300 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia yesterday about the theft of a gold necklace. Sgt. Kurt Reichert said the price of gold is upwards of $2,000 an ounce nowadays.
• Police were called to the 700 block of Euclid Way in Centralia on Wednesday about the unauthorized use of a debit card.
MOM ARRESTED
• A 47-year-old Centralia mother was arrested early yesterday morning at the 3000 block of Borst Avenue for unlawful imprisonment after she allegedly assaulted her daughter and prevented her from leaving the home. Sharon R. Deeks was booked into the Lewis County Jail, also for fourth-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. She is however being released from jail without charges for now.
DRIVER WITH NO ID JAILED
• An 18-year-old Chehalis man who was driving without a license yesterday was booked into jail because he had nothing to prove who he was, according to the Centralia Police Department. Freddie E. Bautista was detained after contact with an officer just before 7 p.m. on the 600 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to police.
CAR PROWL
• A 35-year-old Packwood woman reported yesterday her bank cards had been used around the county after her purse was stolen from her unlocked vehicle on Sunday morning while it was parked at the Blue Spruce Tavern on the 13000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Packwood. Missing are four credit cards, a debit card and $200 cash, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office has descriptions of a pair of potential suspects, according to the sherif’s office.
• Pills were reported stolen from a vehicle on the 3200 block of Galvin Road in Centralia on Wednesday night.
VANDALISM
• Police were called just after 20 p.m. yesterday to the 2800 block of Russell Road in Centralia regarding three slashed tires on a vehicle. Police have a person of interest in the case, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• An officer took a report yesterday morning regarding a building on the 400 block of West Main Street in Centralia being tagged overnight with graffiti.
• Police were called to the 2500 block of Sharon Street in Centralia about 4:40 a.m. yesterday when someone broke a window with a rock.
• Police were called to North Tower Avenue and East Fourth Street about 9 p.m. on Wednesday where someone had smashed out the windshield and a window of a vehicle.
DRUGS
• A 44-year-old man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine after he was detained for an outstanding warrant about 12:30 a.m. today at the Hub Tavern on the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia. Dwayne J. Thomas, a homeless person, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.