WILD RIDE AND DUI
• A 21-year-old Chehalis man was arrested last night after a two-vehicle wreck in which he left the stolen car he was driving wedged against the guard rail on the Kresky Avenue overpass in Centralia and ran away, according to police. Witnesses calling about 10 p.m. reported the vehicle had been traveling as fast as 80 mph before striking a box truck, according to responders. Nobody was injured, the fire department said. A police dog was called out and Emmanuel Martinez was located several blocks away, according to police. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence and other offenses, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Stacy Denham said the car was stolen from Chehalis.
BURGLARY
• A pair of ATVs were discovered missing yesterday from the 100 block of Pinkerton Road in Ethel, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The 28-year-old victim said they were stolen from an unsecured shop sometime since Monday, according to the sheriff’s office. Sgt. Rob Snaza described them as 2006 Honda 400EX and a Yamaha Z45.
DOMESTIC INCIDENT
• A 42-year-old Centralia man was arrested for residential burglary about 9:30 a.m.on Wednesday after he allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s house on the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Duane A. Hill was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
GUNS
• Chehalis police on Wednesday picked up a firearm from a business on Northeast Hampe Way that turned up there and appeared to be stolen. The case is under investigation, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 31-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested for possessing a loaded firearm inside a vehicle after a traffic stop on Wednesday night on Northwest State Avenue in Chehalis. An officer noticing the gun in the back checked it for safety reasons and found it was loaded, according to police. Joshua E. Leach, who said he’d been hunting, was cited and then released, Officer Linda Bailey said.
CAR PROWL
• Police took a report on Wednesday morning of a vehicle prowl at the 700 block of South Gold Street in Centralia in which a checkbook and what was described as a small amount of silver were stolen.
• Chehalis police were called on Wednesday morning about a car prowl on the 400 block of North Market Boulevard. Nothing was missing but the faceplate to the stereo was damaged, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report yesterday from the 500 block of North Rock Street in which someone damaged a vehicle, puncturing all four tires and “keying” the paint.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, shoplifting and other misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor assault, collisions, reports of drunk drivers… and more.