CAT BURGLAR GETS INTO CENTRALIA RESIDENCE
• A Centralia area woman called 911 yesterday after waking up and realizing someone had burglarized her home while she and her children were sleeping. A deputy arriving about 9 a.m. to the 100 block of Mills Lane southeast of town learned the 37-year-old resident got up about 2:30 a.m. to take her medication, which was locked in a safe on a desk in the living room, where she, her daughter and son were sleeping, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The woman said when she got up later, the safe was gone, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. It appeared someone opened a window as well as cut through some plastic sheeting used to block a draft, according to Brown. The safe was later found, destroyed, in a ditch along Centralia-Alpha Road, after a neighbor called to report they’d seen a bluish-green car stop and toss it out, Brown said. Inside the safe were a wallet, old coins, a friend’s white-gold ring and various cards, according to the sheriff’s office.
BURGLARY IN CHEHALIS
• A web cam, a laptop and a Kindle Fire tablet computer were among the valuables missing after a burglary at the 600 block of Northwest St. Helens Avenue in Chehalis. Police were called about 6:30 p.m. yesterday; a door had been left unlocked, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The loss is more than $1,500, Sgt. Gary Wilson said.
DRUGS
• A 21-year-old Centralia resident was arrested for possession of methamphetamine about 8:30 p.m. yesterday at North Washington Avenue and Center Street in Centralia. Luis Ontiveros-Murillo was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police took a report yesterday morning that someone broke the back window out of a car at the 1100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia.
TURKEYS CROSSING HIGHWAY PRECIPITATE CRASH
• Two people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle wreck this morning on state Route 6 about three miles west of Pe Ell when a Dodge Caravan stopped for wild turkeys crossing the roadway and was rear ended. Troopers called about 9:30 a.m. found the Dodge driver, Janet L. Shepperd, 40, of Pe Ell, injured although she was not transported, according to the Washington State Patrol. Both it and the 2013 Ford Edge which struck it were damaged. The Edge’s occupants, Arthur and Barbara Cox, both 73 and both from Grandview, were taken to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the state patrol. Cox was cited for violating the basic speed rule, the investigating trooper reported.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, responses for alarms, misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances, a dog being walked on a leash getting clipped by a passing vehicle leaving it with an abrasion on its leg … and more.