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CENTRALIA DRUG DEALING INQUIRY LEADS TO TENINO
• The Olympian reports a Tenino man on Friday was ordered held on $5,000 bail following a search of his girlfriend’s Tenino-area home in which Centralia police found four pounds of marijuana and 13 ounces of methamphetamine. News reporter Jeremy Pawloski writes that 29-year-old Antonio Gutierrez-Cervantes allegedly sold a half ounce of meth for $500 to a confidential informant on Feb. 19 during an undercover operation in south Thurston County, as part of an ongoing Centralia Police Department Anti-Crime Team investigation.
BURGLARY GARAGE
• Centralia police took a report about 8:30 p.m. yesterday regarding fishing equipment stolen from a garage on the 300 block of West Pear Street.
CAR PROWL
• A gym bag containing soccer gear was stolen in a vehicle prowl on the 200 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday.
• At about 11:30 .m. yesterday, Centralia police were called about a car prowl on the 400 block of West Plum Street in which a DVD player, clothing and a gym bag were taken.
• Stereo equipment was stolen in a vehicle prowl on the 1300 block of Rose Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police just before noon on Friday.
VANDALISM
• Graffiti was spray painted on a garage door on the 1400 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.
ANOTHER STOLEN VEHICLE DISCOVERED BURNING
• The Olympian reports a pickup truck found on fire early yesterday morning in a gravel pit off the 17000 block of Johnson Creek Road east of Tenino turned out to be stolen from a Tenino woman.
WRECKS
• A motorist was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with what appeared to be minor injuries after a single-vehicle wreck on Curtis Hill Road west of Chehalis late yesterday afternoon, and allegedly admitting to have downed a fifth of vodka before getting behind the wheel. Deputies and aid were called about 5 p.m. to the area near Sholes Road where a Ford pickup truck had gone out of control at a curve, traveled about 300 feet down into a ditch and flipped onto its top, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle was totaled and the 43-year-old driver from Chehalis had neck and back pain, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown. He is believed to have been driving under the influence, Brown said, but the case is suspended pending the results of a blood test.
• A young woman was airlifted to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver after an ATV accident about noon yesterday off Wildwood Road in Curtis, according to Lewis County Fire District 13.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter