Sharyn’s Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

Updated at 1:09 p.m.

LOOKING FOR A BEDTIME SNACK?

• A deputy was called about 10:30 p.m. yesterday to a home in Onalaska after a 28-year-old man walked into a stranger’s residence, strolled past the couple who live there and went into their kitchen. The husband escorted the man back outside where he waited for the deputy, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened at the 3000 block of Centralia-Alpha Road, according to the sheriff’s office. The intruder, who appeared to be under the influence of something, gave various names and was finally identified as Matthew E. Eastman, a homeless person who lives in the Chehalis area, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The couple did not want to press any charges, but Eastman was arrested and booked for making a false statement to a public servant, Brown said.

DRILL ASSAULT SUSPECT FOUND, ARRESTED

• An Ashford man wanted for allegedly assaulted his roommate with a cordless drill was arrested yesterday when he returned to his home. Deputies were looking for him after they were called Monday night and told he beat his 27-year-old female roommate with a steel bar, threw firewood at her head and held a power drill to her throat as she shielded her 4-year-old daughter. Robert C. Sliger, 55, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office.

JUVENILE ASSAULT

• Chehalis police were called just after 1 a.m. today to Greenhill School regarding a felony assault. Further details were not readily available.

BUSINESS BURGLARIZED IN CHEHALIS

• Chehalis police were called about 4:15 a.m. today about a burglary on Northwest Prindle Street. Someone had broken a window to get inside a business but some of the missing items were found in the bushes nearby, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Recovered was a vacuum cleaner, a hand truck, a radio and  mechanic’s “creeper”, Officer Linda Bailey said. The break-in is under investigation.

MECHANICS TOOLS MISSING IN CHEHALIS

• A deputy was called about noon yesterday to a “mechanic’s facility” on the 100 block of Ribelin Road in Chehalis where almost $2,200 worth of Matco, Craftsman and another brand of professional tools were missing from a large rolling tool box, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim, a 27-year-old man from Chehalis, said it occurred sometime since the previous day, according to the sheriff’s office.

SHOP BURGLARIZED IN VADER

• A 57-year-old Vader man called the sheriff’s office yesterday to report a guitar, a spotting scope and two bows were missing from his shop on the 800 block of State Route 506 in Vader. The theft occurred sometime during the previous five days, a deputy was told.

GARAGE BURGLARY IN CENTRALIA

• Centralia police arrested a 19-year-old Centralia resident yesterday in connection with a burglary to a garage discovered Monday at the 3000 block of Russell Road. Police say Dustin Z. Nickols at first blamed someone else but then admitted stealing the firearm reloading gear and selling it. The property was recovered and returned to its owner and Nickols was booked into the Lewis County Jail for theft, trafficking in stolen property and malicious prosecution, according to the Centralia Police Department.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MISSING

• A trumpet was reported stolen from the band room at Washington Elementary School in Centralia on Monday.

BOTCHED DINE AND DASH

• Chehalis police were called to Denny’s restaurant on Southwest Interstate Avenue just before 4 p.m. yesterday regarding a complaint a customer had left without paying for her meal, and had forgotten her driver’s license. The business wanted police to know what happened but chose not to pursue it, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CHILD FOUND ALONE IN BANK

• Police were called to the 2000 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue in Chehalis at 2 p.m. on Monday where a 6-year-old boy in the bank’s lobby said his mother drove away without him. It was only minutes before the mother showed back up, according to the Chehalis Police Department. “It seems like somebody just lost track of their world,” detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said. “She turned around and came back to the credit union.”

SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR CALL

• Chehalis police were called just after 6 p.m. Monday about a male sitting in the street and barking at a trash can. The caller said the skinny, bald individual appeared to be under the influence of something, according to police. An officer checking the area of South Market Boulevard and 18th Street couldn’t locate the subject, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

PROWLING AROUND VEHICLES

• Someone rummaged through an unlocked vehicle parked at the 400 block of Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police on Monday morning.

• A police officer was called about 3 p.m. on Monday to the 300 block of  Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis where someone had entered a vehicle and gone through items in it, according to the Chehalis Police Department. There may have been some change missing, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.

• Chehalis police were called to the parking lot at Wal-Mart about 10:30 p.m. on Monday where a subject was watching what appeared to be someone trying to break into a truck. An officer contacted a 53-year-old Centralia man who was wanted on an outstanding warrant related to a driving offense in Whatcom County, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Gary D. Newton was booked into the Lewis County Jail, for the warrant, according to police.

VANDALISM

• Police were called Monday morning the Centralia Outlet Mall where someone had spray painted light blue apparent gang graffiti on the side of the Gymboree store.

DRYER FIRE

• A fire at a home Monday afternoon on Third Street in Chehalis appeared to be caused by something electrical, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. Crews called about 2:25 p.m. found the resident was using a clothes dryer when flames started near the outlet. They used a dry-chemical extinguisher to stop it, Chief Kelvin Johnson said. The damage was estimated at about $1,000, he said.

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10 Responses to “Sharyn’s Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup”

  1. J.Z. says:

    @Chris…I’m so very sorry, I forgot to use the Sarcasm and Satire font when I posted. I just assumed that everyone would recognize humor when they saw it.

  2. Chris says:

    @JZ
    Nice try but as long as you are alive you are living somewhere. You don’t NEED a place you own or rent somewhere to “live” there.

  3. GuiltyBystander says:

    I agree with JZ and OLJ on this one. Sorry, Sandra, but “forgetting” a six-year-old boy is in a slightly different league than forgetting your checkbook, even if you think it’s all the same.

  4. Love Our Country says:

    Shame on that mother!!!! I have had night terrors before about that happening and THANK GOD i have never been that irresponsible!!!

  5. OldLongJohnson says:

    “You don’t need to think everyone does drugs or drinks are the only one(s) that can forget things.”

    You’re absolutely right! You have to include idiots, knuckleheads, hoople heads, the mentally ill, and just plain irresponsible!

    “You know with way people have to live and work is hard enough, but if your use(d) to Daddy taking (the) kid to day care or school and some type of emergency comes up(,) yes mom has to take over and could leave a chid behined.”

    That is absoultely 100% UNacceptable. Foregetting about your child is NEGLIGENCE, plain and simple. Quit making excuses.

    “Bet you have never ever forgot anything must be nice.”

    So your child is just a “thing” to be forgotten at random. Nice.

    I rest my case.

  6. J.Z. says:

    “…and was finally identified as Matthew E. Eastman, a homeless person who lives in the Chehalis area…”

    Not to split hairs or anything, but if he’s homeless, he doesn’t actually live anywhere, right?

  7. J.Z. says:

    @Sandra…Everyone has forgotten things before. But a CHILD? That’s not like forgetting your wallet or purse. That mother is a hooplehead.

  8. Sandra HENDERSON says:

    You don’t need to think everyone does drugs or drinks are the only one that can forget things. You know with way people have to live and work is hard enough, but if your use to Daddy taking kid to day care or school and some type of emergency comes up yes mom has to take over and could leave a chid behined.
    Bet you have never ever forgot anything must be nice.

  9. News Junky says:

    Wow! This guy must be wanting a warm bed or something! Is Matthew Eastman trying to break some kind of world record for the most trips to jail???? Lol!!

  10. OldLongJohnson says:

    “Police were called to the 2000 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue in Chehalis at 2 p.m. on Monday where a 6-year-old boy in the bank’s lobby said his mother drove away without him.”

    No drug or field sobriety tests?

    A REAL parent, a loving and caring adult would not leave a child in their care alone in a bank and drive away UNLESS they were under the influence of some kind of drug or mentally ill.

    But oh gosh! It’s a good thing it’s all chalked up to “a person forgot about their world!” What kind of B.S. excuse is that? If I “accidentally” left my child alone in a strange place would I not be deemed a bad parent or an outright idiot?

    Something tells me there’s more to this story, but the truth will never be known.

    People like DCE get harassed for picking up garbage and arrested for educating the public, but a so-called “parent” forgets their child and drives away is just a simple “nothing to see here incident”.

    Lewis County needs a reality check. And please, tell me all about how easy it is for some of you to leave your child behind while you drive off. YOu’re a bad parent too!