POLICE: TEEN ASSAULTS DAD AT HOSPITAL
• Centralia police are referring a case from an incident last night at the hospital for a possible charge of second-degree assault, regarding a 14-year-old boy who allegedly tried to choke his father. Police called about 10:30 p.m. to Providence Centralia Hospital on the 900 block of South Schueber Road found that security staff had already intervened and helped out the dad, according to the Centralia Police Department. The boy, from south Lewis County, suffers from a condition like perhaps autism and was being brought in for an evaluation of some type, Sgt. Stacy Denham said. He was not arrested, Denham said.
BURGLARY
• Centralia police were called to a home on the 2800 block of Russell Road about 3:30 p.m. yesterday where a resident said they had returned home and found their computer stolen. A door had been unlocked, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT
• Someone stole an American flag from outside a business on the 1100 block of Mellen Street in Centralia during the night, according to a report made to police yesterday.
MAYBE A THEFT
• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to an “adult living facility” on the 900 block of South Schueber Road where a resident claimed money was stolen from their room, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Stacy Denham said officers get these types of calls fairly often. Sometimes patients forget they’ve spent their money, never had the money, or in some cases it is actually stolen, he said. In this situation, the person who has made many previous reports that turned out to be deemed unfounded said they were missing $5, he said.
GUN POSSESSION
• Ryan W. Osborne, 27, of Morton, was arrested yesterday in Morton for unlawful possession of a firearm when he was contacted by police who were investigating an incident from this past spring in Centralia. The case [1]involved a possible robbery that may have been a drug deal issue when an Olympia woman said her purse was taken at gunpoint early on April 30, according to Sgt. Stacy Denham. Denham said police don’t necessarily think Osborne was directly involved but suspect he was connected to some portion of it. He was booked into the Lewis County jail.
POLICE: WOMAN IN TROUBLE FOR BEING DRUNK IN COURT
• A 22-year-old Onalaska woman was arrested yesterday afternoon when she showed up to court intoxicated, in connection with a previous DUI, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police Sgt. Stacy Denham said the Centralia Municipal Court judge remanded her into custody because one of her conditions of release included no drinking. Ericka B. Dukeshire-Pogue was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, sex offender failing to register address; responses for alarms, sounds of gunshots or fireworks, lost purse, stolen wallet, other misdemeanor theft, receipt of possible counterfeit $20 bill, syringes found in a parking lot, syringes found on a sidewalk, concerned citizen regarding children playing on railroad tracks … and more.