UNITS AT STORAGE BUSINESS PILFERED
• Some clever thief broke into at least two storage units at a business near Centralia but replaced the cut padlocks with new ones so as not arouse the suspicion of employees, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responding yesterday morning to the 3200 block of Ives Road learned that a washer and dryer were removed from one unit, according to the sheriff’s office. Another victim is still compiling a list of missing items. It occurred inside the fenced compound of Prairie Storage sometime since noon on Friday, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
ATTEMPTED FUEL THEFT
• An officer was called yesterday morning to a car lot on the 300 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia after the discovery someone had tried to siphon gas from numerous vehicles. The gas caps were removed, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 3:15 p.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of West Main Street regarding fraudulent charges made on a stolen credit card.
• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to Quality Rentals on the 1400 block of South Gold Street where someone had stolen tools and a mattress out of a company truck.
PROTEST DRAWS POLICE IN CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were called to the property outside Green Hill School for boys yesterday when a group of demonstrators gathered. Detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said at one point there were as many as 25 individuals, with a sign saying free all prisoners and a loud speaker, some banging pots and pans and some tossing fireworks. Wilson said it apparently coincided with an event at the jail in King County. Officers monitored the situation and avoided arresting anyone, since that’s what the participants seemed to hope for, Wilson said.
REALLY?
• A 17-year-old boy who said he saw a deer on the side of the road and pulled his emergency brake lost control of his car and wrecked it last night along the 500 block of Lincoln Creek Road outside Centralia. His 2004 Hyundai Elantra sustained major damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy arriving about 8:30 p.m. cited the Rochester motorist for second-degree negligent driving, according to the sheriff’s office. Nobody was taken to the hospital.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, driving with a suspended license, shoplifting; responses for alarms, misdemeanor theft, parking lot hit and run, family disputes, seemingly inappropriate activity by a pair of juveniles at park, small dogs alone inside a hot vehicle; complaint about smelly garbage piling up at a neighbor’s and a rat coming over … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter