Updated at 5:59 p.m.
STOLEN GAME
• Centralia police took a report about 6:25 p.m. yesterday that an Xbox was missing from a home on the 2600 block of Cooks Hill Road.
PHONY $1 BILLS TURN UP
• Police were called to the 500 block of North Pearl Street yesterday when two counterfeit $1 bills were found as a customer attempted to pay their city light bill. The customer finished paying with real money and the fake cash was taken by the police department.
VANDALISM
• Someone spray painted a couple of parked cars along the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 1:15 a.m. today.
• Centralia police were called about 11:10 a.m. yesterday to the 100 block of South Tower Avenue where someone had spray painted graffiti on the roof of a building. It was fairly multi-colored and less gang like than “artsy,” according to the Centralia Police Department.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Centralia police responded about 6:45 a.m. today to the 1000 block of E Street where someone had rummaged through a car. It wasn’t immediately clear if anything was stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• The two men charged in the beating and stun gun assault of a 32-year-old Chehalis man who thought he was with them to buy drugs pleaded not guilty today to intimidating a witness, second-degree assault, second-degree robbery and harassment. Joseph M. Hanks, 30, of Rochester, and Elijah M. Garibay, 25, from Elma, remain held in the Lewis County Jail following the June 18 incident outside the Peppertree Motel on Alder Street in Centralia. They appeared before a judge this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court. Their trial was set for the week of August 12.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drunken driving; responses for alarms, misdemeanor domestic assault, fender bender, skateboard stolen from a playground; complaints about barking dogs, panhandlers … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Punk a** kids!
Agreed, it’s vandalism, secret squirrel, and there’s no condoning it. I haven’t seen this so I can’t comment on any artistic quality it may or may not have.
I remember working in downtown Seattle years ago when many sidewalks had scaffolding and plywood barriers while work was being done, and the plywood was routinely covered with tagging. However, a lot of it was more than the usual monochromatic scribbling you get from taggers. There was some genuine talent behind some of them, more than you see with the garbage that’s paid for by that “1% for the arts” money from taxpayers up there. Stealing is worse than vandalism.
Again, I agree that TAGGING IS ILLEGAL and the perpetrators should be held accountable, especially when Centralia in particular has been plagued by it. It’s just sad when you see a rare God-given gift being wasted when it should be used for something better than defacing someone else’s property.
less gang like than “artsy,”,, artsy my ass,, its straight up VANDALISM!! It looks like shit, and I would love to plant my foot up the persons ass that did it! I got a spare size 12 waiting for the rest of the pukes spraying up our town too! The little bastards need to find a different hobby!!!
LOL when was the 1300 block of Windsor reported for spray painting cars? Those have been like that for 2 weeks or better.