Updated at 2:07 p.m.
MAN FINDS POULTRY INSIDE HOME, VEHICLE MISSING
• The sheriff’s office is looking for a 22-year-old woman after she reportedly took a position as domestic help but when the 39-year-old Winlock area man who hired her returned from a truck-driving trip, he found she had stolen his pickup and left numerous “free range” chickens roaming about inside his residence. A deputy called about 10 o’clock last night to the home on the 100 block of Meier Road East was told the arrangement was she would cook, clean and do paperwork until she could get back on her feet, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. They met on Craigslist last Friday, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. The missing 2001 Ford pickup truck is valued at $12,000. Brown said it wasn’t yet clear to her where the chickens might have come from.
OOPS
• Officers arriving yesterday to an unoccupied Chehalis house where they were planning to conduct police dog training discovered a 28-year-old man had taken up residence there. The owner of the home on he 300 block of Southwest Riverside Drive had given permission for the police activity but presumable didn’t know about the man who had changed the locks and moved in. Rocky S. Frahm, normally a Centralia resident, who had food, clothing, pots, pans and even a bed, had moved in a few days earlier, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He said one could do it in California, but perhaps he was misled by information he’d seen on the Internet, Officer Linda Bailey said. Frahm was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary. However, he is to be released without charges pending further investigation.
MISSING VEHICLE FOUND
• A 2003 Honda Pilot stolen last week from a Chehalis woman was discovered abandoned yesterday afternoon at the end of Crego Hill Road west of Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A survey crew found the car up on blocks, missing its wheels, the sheriff’s office reported.
VEHICLE VERSUS BUILDING
• Centralia police report an officer responded about 4:30 p.m. yesterday to an accident involving a vehicle and a building at the 200 block of West Reynolds Avenue. A resident at Reliable Enterprises accidentally backed into the building and put a hole in the siding, according to the Centralia Police Department.
POSSIBLE NAUGHTY PICTURES TURNED OVER TO POLICE
• Police called to a Chehalis home yesterday afternoon about a 12-year-old who was disorderly because a family member took away her computer are asking detectives to look further into possible inappropriate images reportedly sent to her, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 5:45 p.m. yesterday to Rite Aid on the 500 block of South Market Boulevard after a customer saw two teenage boys flee the store with alcohol.
• A bank at the 200 block of West Main Street in Centralia called police about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to report a fraud, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation.
• Police were called about 9:15 a.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of Searle Drive in Centralia regarding the theft of money from a bank account. The investigation is ongoing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ASSAULTS AT GREEN HILL SCHOOL
• Chehalis police were called yesterday to Green Hill School after a staff member breaking up a fight was kicked by a resident-inmate. A second call was made regarding a misdemeanor assault at the juvenile incarceration facility on Southwest 11th Street less than three hours later. Further details were not readily available.
DRUGS
• Centralia police arrested three individuals for possession of drugs about 9:50 p.m. yesterday after a traffic stop at West Main Street and Tower Avenue. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for possession of methamphetamine were Thomas A. Castellane, 32; and Oscar A. Morales, 37, according to the Centralia Police Department. The driver, Jennifer L. Schroeder, 27, was booked for possession of pills without a prescription, according to police.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants and for driving on suspended license; responses for misdemeanor theft, graffiti, disputes, possible fraud, suspicious people, suspicious text message, attempted suicide, car seat questions, someone yelling obscenities about Dish Network … and more.
Interesting story about the squatter in the house the Chehalis police wanted to use. He was arrested, although now I understand charges have not been filed. You see, if he had moved into my empty house the nice police would have told me it is a civil matter and I have to file an unlawful detainer. The same rules have to apply to everyone. Personally, I think he should be arrested and tried for theft of the house, buglary and a few other charges. However, so far the law is not on my side and it is not on the side of the Chehalis police and homeowner in this case. The man needs to be allowed to return to “his” house and the homeowner must a lawsuit to evict him.