Updated at 7:48 p.m.
MUCH OF SHOP BUILDING, CONTENTS HAULED AWAY
• A 53-year-old Olympia man called the sheriff’s office when he arrived to his shop building on the 700 block of Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia to find someone had made off with metal panels from the roof and the side of the building along with about $12,000 worth of items from inside it. A deputy responding on Friday night was told all four bay doors were gone as well, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Among the missing property is a transmission and parts from a ski boat and the same from a motor home, according to the sheriff’s office. The theft occurred sometime since mid-December, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. There are no suspects, she said.
JEWELRY REPORTED STOLEN FROM BODY
• The Lewis County Coroner’s Office called police about 4:30 p.m. on Friday about a gold wedding band missing from one of their deceased individuals. The ring was present at the place of death but since disappeared, according to police. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
ALARM, DEPUTY, SCARE WOULD-BE THIEF(S)
• A backpack containing presumed “burglary tools” such as bolt cutters were found in a ditch near the 100 block of Hamilton Road North outside Chehalis early this morning when deputies responded to an alarm and found a hole cut in a chain link fence at Washington Tractor. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said someone stole about $4,000 worth of items such as Honda generator, a mower and trimmer but dropped them and fled. It happened about 12:45 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office.
CAR MISPLACED
• Chehalis police were called about 1:25 p.m. on Friday regarding a maroon Crown Victoria stolen from the parking lot at the Lewis County Juvenile Justice Center on Southwest Pacific Avenue. It turned out the driver had just forgotten where she’d parked it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
PARKING LOT PANDEMONIUM
• Police were called to Chehalis Middle School at about 6 p.m. on Friday where some were calling 911, worried a dispute in the parking lot between parents might turn into a fight. A 35-year-old Chehalis father arriving to pick up his daughter was upset he couldn’t find a parking spot and another vehicle wouldn’t move out of his way, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Ryan C. Shewell allegedly flashed his lights, and was yelling and swearing when he approached a woman who got back into her car and locked it, police said. Shewell was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for disorderly conduct, as well as driving with a suspended license, Officer Linda Bailey said.
WHEELS TAKEN
• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon from the 1000 block of G Street regarding the theft of three aluminum GMC wheels from the alley behind a residence.
BURGLARY FROM LAST YEAR, OR BEFORE THAT, REPORTED
• Sometime since December 2010, someone made off with kitchen cabinets, counter tops, wall heaters, light fixtures, a sink, faucets and a wood stove from a home on the 100 block of Temple Road in Morton, according to the sheriff’s office. A deputy was asked yesterday to take a report from a woman handling a foreclosure for a mortgage company. She said it occurred prior to the end of October, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Deputies were called about 4 a.m. on Saturday when the son of a 39-year-old Chehalis-area man looked out the window and saw a male inside his dad’s truck. The father went outside to confront the prowler but the individual described as thin with a goatee and wearing his hood up jumped in a car and sped away to the south in a dark-colored, older Saturn, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened on the 2300 block of Jackson Highway. Stereos were missing from two vehicles, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• Cash and a knife were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked outside a residence on Southeast Park Hill Drive in Chehalis, according to a report made to police yesterday morning. The glove box had been rifled through as well, according to police.
• Chehalis police took a report on Friday of a vehicle prowl of a motor home parked at the Wal-Mart parking lot. It’s owner said the steering column was damaged and is compiling a list of missing items, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A Chehalis officer the day before had posted a 24-hour notice on the vehicle because it had been parked too long at the lot on the 1600 block of Louisiana Avenue, Officer Linda Bailey said.
VANDALISM
• Nothing was missing but a church’s window was broken and lots of doors and cabinets were left open when a deputy arrived about 8 a.m. on Saturday morning to a break-in at the 100 block of Swofford Road near Mossyrock. The repair is estimated at $300, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Someone left graffiti overnight on a fence at a business on the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday. Later, an officer responded to a complaint from the 100 block of East Center Street about graffiti to their building and elsewhere in the area, according to the Centralia Police Department.
WOMAN EXTRICATES SELF FROM CAR WEDGED UNDER TRUCK
• Firefighters were called about 4:45 p.m. yesterday to Interstate 5 near Labree Road in Chehalis for a two-vehicle collision that left a passenger car wedged partially beneath the trailer of a semi truck. “It sounded quite bad at dispatch, but when we got there, the lady (driver) was standing next to her car,” Lewis County Fire District 6 Firefighter-Paramedic Matt McCoy said. She said she had swerved to miss another vehicle and her two-door car came to rest about half of it under the truck, McCoy said. “I tell ya, if the car would have gone another foot under the semi, it would have been a different story,” McCoy said describing the impact point as just inches from the woman’s head. She suffered some abdominal and leg pain and was transported by medics to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to District 6.
ROLLOVER WRECK
• The sheriff’s office reported this morning a 24-year-old Tenino woman escaped with minor injuries to her face and head when she hit a guard rail and rolled her car onto it top at the 300 block of Logan Hill Road around 2 o’clock on Saturday morning. The un-named driver appeared intoxicated and a blood draw was taken; the case will be referred for a charge of driving under the influence, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.