By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
An intoxicated 29-year-old Centralia man who woke up this morning on a stranger’s bathroom floor was detained by police but then hopped off a gurney and fled as he was being transported to the hospital emergency room.
Centralia police say Douglas Galloway was chased down and that he shoved an officer as he continued to try to escape.
It began with a 911 call about 6 a.m. when a woman in a house on the 900 block of North Pearl Street got up and discovered a man sleeping in her bathroom, according to police. Officers found Galloway highly intoxicated, and for unspecified reasons, an aid car was summoned so he could be taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the Centralia Police Department.
When the ambulance stopped in the driveway at the emergency room, Galloway bailed, according to police. He was caught and booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault.
It’s not clear how, or why, he was in the woman’s house.