INTRUDER DRINKS WOMAN’S BEER, FOLDS HER LAUNDRY
• Centralia police were called about 2:15 p.m. yesterday after a woman who lives on Kulien Avenue awoke to hear someone come into her kitchen. The 28-year-old resident who works at night said someone knocked and door but she ignored it because she was sleeping, according to police. When she heard the door open, she armed herself with a bat, stayed hidden in her bedroom and texted a friend to call 911, Sgt. Carl Buster said. Police arrived to find 32-year-old Carey R. Cosgrove had been drinking her beer, smoking pot and folding her towels in the kitchen, Buster said. He said he was there to laundry, and he thought it was okay to come and go from her house, according to Buster. The woman said they were acquaintances, but that wasn’t the case, Buster said. Cosgrove was taken into custody and tried to escape from the patrol car before he was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BURGLARY AND THEFT
• Centralia police responded about 8:15 a.m. yesterday to the 1700 block of South Gold Street where someone had broken in to two businesses and stole money. The amount taken was not disclosed.
• Police took a report of the theft of money and jewelry from the 2000 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia yesterday afternoon.
• Centralia police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of South Washington Street where someone had stolen the turn signals off a vehicle.
CEMETERY VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of damage to a head stone at the cemetery on the 1800 block of Van Wormer Street.