Updated at 12:34 p.m.
GUNS AND TRUCK STOLEN FROM MIDDLE FORK ROAD
• A deputy responding to the 1300 block of Middle Fork Road near Onalaska yesterday evening took a report someone stole a man’s pickup truck and burglarized his home making off with several firearms, credit cards, checkbooks and documents such as a birth certificate and a passport. The 55-year-old victim said it had occurred sometime since Saturday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the missing weapons is a shotgun, a Remington 22 semi-automatic rifle and at least one other handgun, according to the sheriff’s office. There’s no indication how the intruder got inside, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. The missing vehicle is described as a red and gray 1989 Ford F250 with a black lumber rack and toolbox in the bed of the truck, Brown said.
FIREARMS PILFERED FROM VEHICLE
• A Ruger 22 rifle and a 44 Magnum pistol vanished from the back seat of a pickup truck parked at a residence on the 900 block of E. Street in Centralia overnight, according to a report made to police yesterday morning. The owner said his vehicle had been locked but he found the driver’s door ajar, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ANOTHER AUTO THEFT IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police took a report about 8:20 a.m. yesterday of a locked car stolen from the driveway in front of a residence on the 200 block of Tilley Avenue. The silver 1997 Honda Civic has a personalized license plate reading WWU 0905, according to the Centralia Police Department. Numerous Hondas and similar vehicles have gone missing locally in the past few days possibly because someone is using a “shaved” key to gain access, according to police. Sgt. Carl Buster said this morning that another officer discovered property stolen from one of the cars in the possession of a man he arrested in an unrelated case. “They’re digging into that now,” Buster said.
STUDENT BRUISED, WINDOW BROKEN IN SCHOOL BUS FIGHT
• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday by a mother who reported her teenage son was assaulted on his school bus the day before; struck in the stomach and the ear, as well as in the head hard enough his head broke a window on the bus. An officer investigated the alleged attack of the 14-year-old and found bruising and a swollen eye, according to Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut. The suspect, also 14, faces a possible charge of fourth-degree assault, according to Kaut.
OOPS
• A woman presumably trying to stay out of trouble for driving with a suspended license when she was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy last night allegedly gave her sister’s name as her own, but ended up in jail for making a false statement because the deputy recognized her, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Jennifer A. Haggard, of Onalaska, was stopped on the 300 block of Napavine Road East in Chehalis because of expired car tabs, according to the sheriff’s office. She was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for the false statement and first-degree driving on a suspended license, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.
$100 GAS DRIVE OFF
• Police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday when someone in an older brown Suburban pumped about $100 worth of fuel at a service station on West Main Street and then left without paying for it. No arrest was made.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called yesterday morning to a church on the 1800 block of Snively Avenue where someone had kicked in the door to a storage shed. Nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Police took a report yesterday morning of tires slashed on a vehicle during the night at the 3100 block of Galvin Road in Centralia.
• A 28-year-old homeless man was arrested about 1:30 p.m. yesterday when Chehalis police detective spotted him spray painting on a storage container at Northwest Prindle and Front streets. Matthew E. Eastman was arrested for third-degree malicious mischief and then released, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Centralia police were contacted yesterday afternoon about gang-style graffiti spray painted onto a sidewalk on the 1500 block of Oxford Avenue.
WRECK
• A 21-year-old Winlock resident t was hospitalized yesterday after a two-vehicle collision at the 800 block of Highway 603 west of Chehalis. A deputy responding about 4 p.m. learned a Toyota Forerunner made a left turn in front of the Winlock man’s Mazda, totaling the Mazda, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Mazda driver had shoulder and leg pain and was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the sheriff’s office. The Forerunner had only minor damage and it’s 20-year-old driver from Lacey was reportedly uninjured, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. He was cited for failing to yield and having no insurance, Brown said.