FRAUD ATTEMPT ON ELDERLY WOMAN
• Chehalis police were called yesterday afternoon by a woman who said her mother went to Western Union at Shop ‘N Kart to wire money to an impostor who had phoned and said he was her grandson being held at a police department until he could pay the repair bill following a rear end collision he caused. “Her children were able to catch it before the transaction, thank goodness,” detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said. Wilson called it a typical scam, which is widespread and nearly cost the woman who is in her 80s $1,885.
THEFT FROM FRONT PORCH
• Two old wooden bar stools were removed from a front porch at the 200 block of North Diamond Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police at mid-morning yesterday.
OTHER THEFT
• A tool box was reported stolen yesterday afternoon from the 500 block of South Silver Street in Centralia.
• Centralia police took a report about 12:40 a.m. today of a wallet stolen from a locker at a health club at the 2000 block of Borst Avenue.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called again yesterday morning to the 100 block of Virginia Drive regarding vehicle tire issues. This time a subject reported their tire was slashed.
NOT AN ASSAULT
• Chehalis police were called just before 7 p.m. yesterday to an alley off of Southwest Lewis Street where a witness thought they saw a male hit a female with a car, knocking her down. The female told an arriving officer he tried to drive away, she got her hand hung up in the car and fell in a mud puddle, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Nobody was arrested.
NO ROOM AT THE INN, OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
• Chehalis police were called about 3 o’clock this morning from a registered sex offender at a downtown bus shelter who said he was kicked out of where he had been staying, was very cold and inquired if he could sleep at the police station. Detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said he didn’t know how this particular call turned out but said officers commonly attempt to find a shelter or organization which can assist in those cases.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft; responses for disputes, burglar alarms; complaints of harassment; vehicle tire punctured, barking neighbor dogs … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Also in regard to the offender level system, the Sherriff in each county of release has the option to increase or decrease the level of any offender released into their county. Most small county departments increase the level as a means of keeping tighter control over offenders since there are so few services in small counties and so little housing or jobs. The offender is required to return to their “county of first conviction”.
Dominoe
I am afraid you are incorrect. If you check your statistics or inquire of any Community Corrections office you will find that sex offenders have the lowest rate of recidavism or check the Bureau of Justice Statistics or merely do a google search you will fine all the accurate inforrmation. Since sex offenders are the hardest to place in housing, last to be able to get jobs, they often get picked up for “not reporting” as they frequently are homeless. For that they may be “sanctioned”. Lots of fear, hysteria, personal opinion, and plain old untrue information passed off as “truth”.
Might be nice if folks could provide a link to a credible source for claims supporting opinions.
From a National Institute of Health study here on increased fears:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820068/
However, community notification has many collateral consequences for both community members and registered sex offenders. According to Levenson et al, it is likely that parents experience fear after notification of a neighborhood sex offender. This fear can lead to community-wide hysteria, which has occurred in many towns.
In June 2007, for example, members of a small, rural community in New York were notified that 2 registered sex offenders were residing in their neighborhood and reacted by posting signs warning that “Monsters Live Here”; they also initiated a protest using the media and contacted the registered sex offenders’ landlord asking that they be evicted. One resident noted that
since he explained to his daughters about the ‘monsters’ across the street, he has seen a look of fear and terror in their faces, and they sometimes refuse to sleep alone.49(pB1)
Another resident published a letter to the editor online in North Country This Week (St. Lawrence County, New York) in response to her new registered sex offender neighbor. One part of the letter read
“I have slept approximately a combined 5 hours in the past 3 nights because I wake up in a panic and I need to get up and make sure that my children are okay.”
This hysteria and panic is a collateral consequence of community notification. These kinds of reactions have led to a proliferation of registered sex offender laws above and beyond community notification. Since 1996, some states have created “safety zones,” or places where a registered sex offender cannot be; others are mandating lifetime global positioning system (GPS) monitoring.”
And this:
“For example, Barnowski, in his study examining the relationship between risk levels and recidivism among registered sex offenders in Washington, concluded that “[t]he notification levels determined by the [End of Sentence Review Committee] do not classify sex offenders into groups that accurately reflect their risk for reoffending.”
“Therefore, those with a passionate interest in preventing sexual crimes should work to provide ex-offenders with stable community support that can assist in their success. Because of the proliferation of laws directly related to registered sex offenders, however, this may prove a difficult task. “
I agree with both of you. On one hand you have “sex offenders” who were labeled in their teens for having consensual sex with someone their own age or close to it. I read one of those papers the Sheriff brought by and it said the “crime” of slapping a girls but before he was 18 had labeled him. Why can you be labeled for life over something that happens in your youth? We need a better way to label offenders and I don’t think all of the labels need to last forever.
On the other hand we have some very scary people out there who, for one reason or another aren’t in prison, but are real threats to our c
women and children. They need to be monitored because rehabilitation just doesn’t work.
The last problem there is, is the most serious. So, now that they are labeled, what do we do with them? Our neighborhoods don’t want them, our employers don’t want them, and the system says they’ve done their time. Lewis County closed two halfway houses last year. There has to be somewhere for these people to go, whether we like it or not. Nobody wants a sex offender in their neighborhood (me included) but at least you have the right to know so you can protect yourself. I don’t know anything about my neighbors, except that in the last two years no sex offenders have moved in.
Before anyone goes bashing me for my point of view I would like to say I had something happen to me during my childhood and had my mother been properly informed it wouldn’t have. He got out a few years back, and you know what? After 15 years in prison he had to have somewhere to live too. Maybe they had to find him a job.
Bottom line is they are still people (people I don’t want to be around) and they have to go somewhere.
Scarlett Letter I don’t know where u got ur information but u need to recheck ur facts. Sex offenders are the ones who most often re-offend. That’s why their paperwork and their level states specifically just how likely they are to re-offend. Not likely…likely…highly likely to re-offend. Additionally did u know, there is no successful rehabilitation and they never lose their urge just learn (mostly unsuccessfully) to suppress it? So if u want to advocate for those people u go right ahead, but u might think differently if it was ur child they molested or ur sister they raped.
• Chehalis police were called about 3 o’clock this morning from a registered sex offender at a downtown bus shelter who said he was kicked out of where he had been staying, was very cold and inquired if he could sleep at the police station. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said he didn’t know how this particular call turned out but said officers commonly attempt to find a shelter or organization which can assist in those cases.
This is what the Offender Registry does to people that need a place to live and a chance to get on with life. Sex Offenders have the lowest re offense rate of all offenders. The modern day scarlet letter is alive and well in America. I’m not sticking up for the offender I’m sure he’s probably just guilty of urinating in public or a Romeo and Juliet relationship.. Look at what the justice system has become, an Adolf Hitler in the Making…….