Updated at 5:37 p.m.
COINCIDENCE, OR RESTAURANT RAGE?
• Centralia police were called to O’Blarney’s restaurant on the 200 block of North Tower Avenue about 6:45 p.m. yesterday after a large window in front was shot with a BB and shattered. A group of six customers sitting outside beneath it didn’t see how it happened but an officer found the BB, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police were looking for a customer who said he was unhappy with his order, paid for it and left moments earlier; the bartender saw the man outside, according to police. Nobody was injured, Sgt. Carl Buster said.
DRUNK AND SUPER DISORDERLY
• A 20-year-old Boistfort woman who was reportedly very drunk and running naked down a rural road was booked into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of third-degree assault of an officer. Deputies dispatched about 10:50 p.m. yesterday to the area of Pe Ell-McDonald and Boistfort roads west of Chehalis found Cassandra L. McBride with “some” clothing on but highly intoxicated and uncooperative, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She indicated she had come from a home on WIldwood Road, according to the sheriff’s office. Once in the back of a patrol car, McBride allegedly kicked at the vehicle windows and then kicked a deputy, according to Sgt. Rob Snaza. At the jail, she spit in the face of a corrections officer, Snaza said.
ASSAULT INVESTIGATION
• Chehalis police were contacted by an individual very early yesterday morning who reported a rape. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VEHICLE THEFT
• A woman called police about 9:30 a.m. yesterday after her Dodge van vanished from where it had been parked the night before at the 300 block of Southwest Third Street in Chehalis. It was found by the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office on Black Hawk Lane, heavily damaged and missing its tires and wheels, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
• Police were called about 6:30 p.m. yesterday by an individual who saw a male in a black Toyota Celica stop and remove a car battery and gas cans from inside a carport at the 200 block of Aurora Street in Centralia.
CAR TAMPERING
• A woman called police just before 11 a.m. yesterday after discovering someone had removed all the “relays” from the fuse boxes in both her Volkswagen Jettas while they were parked on the 100 block of Northeast Washington Avenue in Chehalis, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
PHONY MONEY ORDER DOESN’T FLY
• A landlord called police yesterday morning after receiving the rent payment for an apartment on the 300 block of North Tower Avenue in the form of an apparently fake money order.
UNWELCOME WAKE UP CALL
• A resident on the 900 block of Northwest Pennsylvania Avenue in Chehalis called police just before 5 a.m. yesterday after someone threw a package of lit fireworks on to their front porch.
STASH FOUND?
• Chehalis police were called on Wednesday afternoon when a citizen found a case of beer, with only a couple missing, in an alley near the 300 block of Southwest 14th Street.
INMATES AT LARGE LOCATED IN CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police responded to Valley View Medical Center on the 2600 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue about 4:55 p.m. yesterday when they got word an inmate on furlough from the Lewis County Jail who had not returned as expected the day before was spotted there. Jeffrey A. Church, 38, from Onalaska, was taken into custody and back to the jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 6:10 p.m. by someone who spotted an inmate on furlough from the Lewis County Jail who had not returned as expected. Kevon L. Tracy, 41, of Chehalis, was walking along North Market Boulevard and observed by a person who had seen him featured on the Washington’s Most Wanted web site, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Tracy was taken into custody near the Lewis County Historical Museum, returned to the jail and booked for first-degree escape, according to police.
NO CITIZEN’S ARREST
• Centralia police responded to the Chevron gas station on Mellen Street in Centralia about 12:30 p.m. yesterday when a man told the owner he was placing him under citizens arrest for selling synthetic drugs and calling police. He was a father in his 40s, upset the store carried something called “potpourri” that apparently his daughter was smoking and getting “wigged out,” according to the Centralia Police Department. “We go there and had to explain to the guy, this is legal to sell, it’s not a controlled substance,” Sgt. Carl Buster said. “I told him, you cannot be placing anyone under citizens arrest in this state, or you could be held liable for unlawful imprisonment.” Buster said the father hadn’t handcuffed or touched the man he wanted to arrest. Nobody was arrested.
WRECKS
• A 59-year-old Salkum man was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a wreck on U.S. Highway 12 in Ethel yesterday in which his car left the roadway to the right crossed the ditch and traveled approximately 100 feet on the grass before rolling several times. Troopers called about 4:30 p.m. found the 1990 Lincoln Town Car in the westbound lane. The driver Arthur E. Marker had not been wearing a seat belt, according to the Washington State Patrol. An unknown medical condition caused the collision, according to the state patrol. Marker this afternoon was moved out of the intensive care unit and listed in satisfactory condition, according to a hospital spokesperson. The car was totaled.
• A motorist was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after a reported rollover collision on the 200 block of North Military Road east of Winlock at about 2 o’clock this morning. Further details were not readily available.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, domestic misdemeanor assault, disorderliness; responses for collisions, violation of no contact order, suicidal subject, possible drunk driver, hit and run to a fence, hit and run in parking lot, misdemeanor theft, suspicious behavior at a pharmacy, a friendly pit bull running around a neighborhood trying to go into other people’s homes; complaints of neighbor’s loud music, a speeding car which passed in a no passing zone, two racing vehicles which almost hit another motorist … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Reference : The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012. This is a federal law.
Not trying to protect anything or anyone, John, nor do I particularly care whether you trust me or not.
Yes, I used to smoke potpourri because it was legal (or, perhaps to satisfy you, “not illegal”) and marijuana was not. It is available in head shops across the state and elsewhere because it has not been outlawed. I decided to quit smoking anything altogether (including cigarettes, which actually gave me a stronger “buzz” than anything else) because it just isn’t worth it. Same with alcohol.
Again, if this stuff is illegal, as you infer, why is it allowed to be sold in licensed businesses while police are aware of it? Why aren’t you out making citizen’s arrests yourself?
Guilty bystander how do you know everything in the potpourri is legal? That really seems suspicious how you have stated that. You say “in Fact”. Really are we are we all stupid or are you possibly a user protecting your stash? You say there’s a difference………so explain the difference. It is not legal and harmless according to the federal government. No I wouldn’t trust you, Your whole statement smells of someone trying to protect the undetected drug that should be as it is illegal by government standards.
Guilty Bystander – the potpourri is only legal until the state can verify the actual drug… there are over 450 versions of the JWH 018 that causes the hallucinations… and psychosis… and death, in some cases. Once the actual molecular structure is verified, it is made illegal… and the makers put out a new batch with a new structure one molecule different.
I agree with Old Long Johnson… that potpourri is a dangerous drug that has lead to some deaths around the country and many cases of psychosis. Any father would have wanted SOMETHING done… don’t know if it is the CPD or the law (some forms of the drug are illegal, others are not); but at the very least, a strong warning should have been issued to the convenience store owners… they are going to end up killing someone with that stuff. Hope the profit is worth it to them.
So a prohibited analogue chemical that got a Fire Department employee fired is perfectly okay to be sold to children in stores?
Yeah, the CPD needs to learn exactly what the law does and doesn’t say.
But, the CPD have been making up the rules as they go for a LOOONG time.
Centralia is “special”.
The material called “potpourri” apparently being sold at Mellen Street Chevron and lots of other places across the state IS, in fact, legal because it doesn’t contain certain chemicals that you might find in bath salts or Spice (which are illegal, as you state). There is a difference.
Trust me, the police would confiscate this stuff and issue fines if it was illegal. It’s all about what ISN’T added to the herb, which by itself is legal and harmless.
I love the CPD too, but it sounds like somebody down there had better hit the books. The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 places analogues (Spice, Bath Salts, etc.) under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (illegal to possess, manufacture, distribute, etc.). The father was right.
First of all I have the utmost respect for officer Carl Buster. But his quote that you cannot place a person under citizen arrest in Washington state is not true. When you are in law enforcement officer you should be aware of the law. here is the RCW:
Departm
e
nt of Licensing
Summ
ary of Citizen Arrest
October 11, 2005
Citizen Arrest in Washington State
Under Washington law, a private person
can conduct a citizen’s arrest for a
misdemeanor if the misdemeanor: (1) was co
mmitted in the citi
zen’s presence and
(2) constituted a breach of the peace.
State v. Gonzales
, 24 Wn. App. 437, 439,
604 P.2d 168 (1979);
Guijosa v. Wal-Mart Stores
, 101 Wn. App. 777, 791, 6 P.3d
583 (2000).
A person can also conduct a citizen’s arrest for felonies.
See
State v.
Malone
, 106 Wn.2d 607, 724 P.2d 364 at FN1 (1986)
citing
State v. Miller
, 103
Wn.2d 792, 698 P.2d 554 (1985) and
State v. Gonzales
, 24 Wn. App. 437, 604
P.2d 168 (1979).
RCW 10.04.020 provides for a citizen’s arrest at the direction of a district
court judge, as follows: A
rrest — Offense committed in view of district judge.
When any offense is committed in
view of any district judge, the
judge may, by verbal direction to any deput
y, or if no deputy is present, to any
citizen, cause such deputy or citizen to
arrest such offender, and keep such
offender in custody for the space of one hour
, unless such offender shall sooner be
taken from such custody by virtue of a warrant issued on complaint on oath. But
I’m not saying the guy had the right to perform a citizens arrest in this situation. But it is legal in Washington State.
I wouldve taken the beer and drank it!
Who calls the police after finding a case of beer?