THEFTS
• Centralia police responded just before 10 a.m. yesterday to the laundry business on the 500 block of North Pearl Street where an undisclosed amount of money was stolen during the night. A door was found unsecured, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A woman called Centralia police yesterday from E Street after she got a credit card bill from Victoria’s Secret of more than $400, according to the Centralia Police Department. She hadn’t ordered anything from them, according to police.
• A generator, several hand-held radios and a GPS device were among the items believed to be missing from an airport hangar in Morton, according to a report made to the Morton Police Department on Saturday.
• Someone removed a window from the Morton school bus garage, siphoned diesel from a bus and stole a Gateway laptop computer as well as a red “jump” box used for jump starting the busses, according to a report made to police on Friday morning.
• Police were called to Morton Junior-Senior High School about 9:30 a.m. on Saturday when a siphon hose and a five-gallon can were discovered near two school district vehicles parked near the boiler rooms. No fuel seemed to be missing, according to police.
• Morton police were called about 6:45 p.m. on Friday to a possible burglary to a residence on the 400 block of Oniell Road. Police reported yesterday the case is still under investigation.
• Morton police reported yesterday they arrested 40-year-old Patricia M. Horrace a week ago Monday in connection with a burglary at a home on the 100 block of Westlake Avenue. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail where she is being held on $5000 bail. She has pleaded no guilty.
DRUGS
• Morton police reported yesterday they contacted three girls at Morton Junior-Senior High School on Wednesday morning in connection with possession of a controlled substance. The cases are being referred to Lewis County juvenile prosecutors for charging decisions, according to the Morton Police Department.
• Centralia police arrested a 30-year-old man and 23-year-old woman yesterday each for possession of heroin and methamphetamine. The arrests came after police got back the results of tests of white residue from a pipe and a tarry substance from a tea candle tin, items that were handed over to police who went to visit the couple at their Centralia home last August, according to charging documents. Officers went to the residence looking for other subjects who were suspected of selling stolen property, asked the two if they used drugs and asked if they had any drug-related materials in their home, according to the documents. Carlina F. Anderson and Jeffrey C. Sitton, were booked into the Lewis County Jail and appeared before a judge this afternoon. Neither has any past felonies and were released on signature bonds pending trial.
• A 45-year-old Chehalis woman was arrested by Centralia police yesterday for drugs based on a visit to her residence three weeks ago when police were looking for two of her relatives who had arrest warrants. Those subjects weren’t found, but officers allegedly spotted several hypodermic needle and a digital scale inside, according to charging documents. Rhonda I. Russell “was told if she was honest and cooperative, she would not be arrested and the defendant agreed,” Lewis County prosecutors wrote in charging documents. “In addition the defendant agreed to help law enforcement apprehend additional suspects in the near future. That, apparently, did not occur and the defendant was arrested.” Russell was charged today with possession of methamphetamine. Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer said Russell has no criminal history and asked she be allowed to be released pending trial on a $25,000 signature bond. Judge Richard Brosey asked why she wasn’t arrested earlier this month if police had probable cause then, or conversely, why she was jailed yesterday instead of being summonsed to court with a letter. Meyer indicated that police decided how to handle it.
HAVE YOU SEEN THESE FIREARMS?
• Lewis County Crime Stoppers is looking for tips on the locations of eight guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition that were stolen in a residential burglary three weeks ago on the 700 block of Chandler Road west of Chehalis. Also taken sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. on March 11 from the home were a 36-inch Peerless flat screen television, a green Dell laptop computer, a black and gray Netbook laptop and a FireSAFE safe, according to Crime Stoppers. The missing ammo were 10 boxes of 9 mm and a 1,000-round box of .22LR, according to Crime Stoppers. The firearms are as follows: Marlin .22 rifle with scope, Ruger .22 rifle with scope, Remington 9mm rifle with scope, 25-20 lever action rifle, Remington 30.06 pump action rifle, Colt .22 antique revolver and a Ruger .22 pistol, serial #21359540. Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 for information leading to the clearance of crimes. Anonymous calls can be made to 1-800-748-6422.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with a suspended license,; responses for domestic disturbances, non-injury collision, stolen bicycle, possibly intoxicated driver, suspicious person; complaint that someone “keyed” a vehicle, noisy neighbors … and more.