Updated at 12:52 p.m.
FELONY ASSAULTS
• Police responding to the 400 block of West Cherry Street about 9:40 p.m. yesterday arrested a 24-year-old woman for bringing a golf club into a domestic dispute. Kindra R. Youckton was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say Youckton had pushed her boyfriend, he slapped her and then when he was turned around “packing up stuff” she struck him across the back with the club. Twenty-five-year-old Eric Davidson was arrested for fourth-degree assault for his role in the fight, and then was released pending a court hearing, according to police. Youckton is to be released without charge pending further investigation.
• A 24-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for second-degree assault after police responded to disputes in the area of the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia early Tuesday morning. The victim said he saw a male throw a female down and after he tried to intervene, he was chased and attacked. Damen J. Kroll, 24, subsequently arrested and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
SEXUAL ASSAULT
• A 47-year-old Rochester man was arrested yesterday for second-degree rape in connection with a Memorial Day weekend incident at a small gathering near Adna after the bars closed in which he allegedly took advantage of a young woman who was extremely intoxicated. “She was unconscious apparently from the alcohol,” Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Steve Aust said. The 28-year-old woman had been with friends at a downtown Chehalis bar and left with three males to go to a home on Curtis Hill Road, according to the sheriff’s office. Michael T. Taylor allegedly also assaulted two others present who tried to stop him, according to the sheriff’s office. Taylor was booked into the Lewis County Jail yesterday.
DRUGS
• Centralia police responded to a possible fight about 3:30 a.m. today on West Maple Street near the police department and ended up arresting a 42-year-old man with a warrant who had suspected methamphetamine on him, according to the Centralia Police Department. Dale A. Drew, a Centralia resident, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
THEFT
• Chehalis police are investigating the theft of a $35,000 excavator from Chehalis Rentals on Northwest Louisiana Avenue. An officer called to the business yesterday was told a woman rented the piece of equipment for four hours but but it’s been a couple of weeks and she hasn’t yet returned it, according to police.
• Chehalis police were called to Kit Carson restaurant yesterday on Southwest Interstate Avenue following the discovery hundreds of dollars were missing from the business. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A deputy was called last night after a shed was discovered broken into at the 100 block of Mineral Creek Road in Minter. Someone forcibly entered and left with about two gallons of gasoline as well as a green plastic garden cart, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened sometime after 7 p.m. on Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.
COUNTERFEIT BILL
• Police were called about 6:15 p.m. yesterday to a business on the 600 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia where a customer attempted to spend a phony $100 bill. No arrest was made, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were called yesterday afternoon to the 1200 block of Mellen Street when the owner of the vacant building discovered damage inside. The former King Solomon’s restaurant has been vandalized over time, according to the Centralia Police Department.
TODDLER FALLS FROM WINDOW
• Aid was called about 6:15 p.m. yesterday after a 2-year-old child fell out the window of an apartment on the 1400 block of Johnson Road in Centralia. The toddler ended up being okay, but was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital to be checked out, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• The 33-year-old convicted of sneaking into a Napavine bar and taking nearly $15,000 cash from its safe was sentenced yesterday to eight years and eight months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in fines and fees as well as to repay the money he stole. Lewis County Superior Court Judge James Lawler told Lonzo W. Lawson II he must make payments of at least $25 each month beginning in 60 days. Lawson was found guilty earlier this week of breaking into Frosty’s Saloon and Grill in early April and then spending most of the proceeds on partying; he gave some to two friends who he’d asked to come with him, but chickened out, according to attorneys in the case. Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said the owner should be getting back the nearly $2,500 that was recovered and then as a victim, will be first in line to receive reimbursement from Lawson’s monthly obligation.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drug cases in which no information is readily available; responses for misdemeanor theft, vehicle collisions, damage found on a vehicle’s gas cap, suspicious activity such as juveniles seen drinking alcohol … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
I find it interesting that the Jail roster reads that Taylor is being held on Rape 2nd, Assault 2nd NOT FILED and burglary 1st. Did I miss something in the article or did they through in that burglary to replace the non filed assault charges?
About the deadly weapon charge…
I hope he intends to file an appeal on that one because it is total BS. I would bet my right eyeball that they threw that charge in because he wouldn’t take their plea bargain. THAT”S WHAT THEY DO. Everyone takes the “deal” because they are too scared to take them on, and this is why. A jury in that freaking county is as fair and impartial to criminal as a Morman is to premarital sex! I am by no means excusing what he did, but, this just isn’t right. He used that knife to break a lock, not threaten, or intimidate, or assault anyone.
Amazed
Just because he was just arrested doesn’t mean it was just reported. The police are incompetent, and it may have taken them this long to find the guy or even follow up. It’s possible she didn’t know his name or maybe the guys he went off on didn’t know his last name. It’s very possible she didn’t even know it happened or have a memory of it until now. There could be 100 reasons he was just now arrested. Maybe they didn’t have the evidence to issue a warrant until now or could be he’s had a warrant and they just found him. Either way I doubt all 3 of these people are making it up as some kind of lame assed vendetta scheme…. I mean it’s far too lifetime movie network special.
Valid point though.
to J.Z. from a previous news release: Lawson also was found guilty of a special allegation of committing the crime with a deadly weapon – he took a knife from bar’s kitchen to break through its office door. The extra finding probably added three to four years to the potential sentence, Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke said.
…….He would have only gotten about 4 years for the burglary. That ‘deadly weapon charge is BS. Can you get convicted of assault with a deadly weapon if there isn’t anyone around to assault in the middle of a hay field…except the assaulting of hay? That’s what I’m saying.
Lawson got so much jail time because this is not his first (or second, or even third) run-in with the law. He is a career criminal who had just gotten out of jail for assaulting his girlfriend when he robbed Frosty’s.
John: you’re right, he got that much time because they threw in a charge of something like robbery with a deadly weapon. Even though there wasn’t anyone in the bar….I guess the knife he took from the kitchen killed the door he broke into. How can people of these juries sleep at night? That was a BS charge. I’m not defending what he did, but the charges do not fit the crime. There were twists in this case. Those 2 friends were not ‘in on it’, they didn’t chicken out. He owed them $ and went there to repay them. LE threatened them to make them testify against him or they were going to be charged as accessories because they had the $2500. he gave them from the robbery. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FROSTY’S EMPLOYEE THAT TOLD HIM HOW TO BREAK IN? Why is there NOTHING about that person…why wasn’t he also charged?
I’ll bite Dominoe. Taylor was just arrested yesterday. This rape supposedly happened over Memorial Day week end. That’s well over 2 weeks ago. So, he raped a woman, she didn’t report it until now? He also assaulted the 2 men that were there also..they too didn’t report it until Now? Okay….yes that all makes sense. A rape I might be able to believe not being reported as sometimes women are afraid. But an assault of 2 men….that I find hard to believe. And of course over 2 weeks later I’m sure there is No evidence of any of it.
Wow, he got 4 times more time in jail than the manager of Cedar Village IGA who stole well over a million dollars or the museum director who received 1 year for over 300K. How does this makes sense? I’m not defending him, but the crimes in Lewis County don’t fit the time in jail. Can anyone give make sense of this. Does this has anything to represents the criminal?
Also the system is so backwards. Lawson was convicted and has been or will be sentenced to prison time, and he is currently incarcerated in the county jail right? So how is he expected to make payments on his fines starting in 60 days?? A warrant will be issued for his arrest if he fails to make the payments, and then the county will have to pay to ship him back to the jail and house him there until it is cleared up. Still they do this, CURRENTLY KNOWING FOR A FACT he wont be able to make said payments. Am I the only one who sees how counterproductive that is? Set the payment schedule to begin 60 days after his release. OH NO but that would make too much sense.
I am now awaiting the chauvinistic comments in support of Taylor, LC’s newest sex offender. I imagine something along the lines of “she shouldn’t have been drinking so much” or “she shouldn’t have gotten a ride home with them”…so lets hear it sex offender advocates…oh do tell of all the ways this can be made out to be the victim’s fault.