[1]Courtesy photo by Trena Gravatt Krause
OOPS
• A motorist searching for her phone while traveling northbound on Southwest Interstate Avenue in Chehalis left the roadway, plowed through a fence and launched into a truck for sale at a car lot yesterday afternoon. The 33-year-old Chehalis woman escaped with mostly scrapes from her car’s airbag and was not hospitalized, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. She actually traveled under the cyclone fence, according to fire Capt. Kevin Curfman who said two trucks were damaged and nearly a third one. Chehalis Police Department detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said she broadsided the 2004 Ford F350 crew cab, which was shoved into another truck. It happened about 1:35 p.m. at Uhlmann Motors. Wilson said he didn’t expect her to be ticketed, but noted she will have her insurance company to deal with.
OUCH
• Chehalis police were called to the area near Wal-Mart about 10:15 a.m. yesterday after a pedestrian allegedly punched the hood of a Chrysler Town Car he said was in the crosswalk while he was. It left a knuckle-sized dent, according to police. The “puncher” was not found, police said.
THEFT IN SILVER CREEK
• Someone stole a spool of quarter-inch copper wire after cutting through a fence at he 2800 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Silver Creek. A deputy called yesterday learned the theft occurred sometime since March 24, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is estimated at $1,900, according to the sheriff’s office.
MISSING VEHICLE
• Police were called about 10:30 a.m. yesterday to the 600 block of Marsh Avenue in Centralia to take a report of a vehicle stolen; police were told the owner left it with someone more than a year ago to get it fixed and hadn’t been able to track that person down, according to the Centralia Police Department. An officer located the 1970 Chevrolet and it will be returned to him, police said this morning.
LAPTOP LIFTED FROM DOZING LIBRARY PATRON
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a laptop computer that was stolen from the library on South Silver Street on Sunday. It’s owner, a 49-year-old Rochester man, said it was plugged in next to him, he fell asleep and when he woke up, it was gone, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• An estimated $1,000 worth of stereo equipment was stolen from a car over the weekend at the park and ride lot on the 800 block of West Main Street in Chehalis, according to a report made to police on Monday. The victim found it unlocked, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called just before 8 a.m. yesterday about graffiti that appeared overnight on a building at the 100 block of Virginia Drive in Centralia. The words “Solve One” were left in black spray paint, according to police.
OUCH
• A customer at the Lewis County garbage transfer station in Centralia was whacked in the back of the head by a pipe being moved by an employee operating the stationary excavator yesterday morning. Riverside Fire Authority was called about 9:30 a.m. to the 1400 block of South Tower Avenue. The victim, a LeMay driver, was bandaged up and transported to the hospital, according to authorities.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with a suspended license, DUIs; report of protection order violations, misdemeanor thefts; and complaint of loud partying neighbors … and more.