Updated at 6:33 p.m.
BOYFRIEND ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED CHILD ABUSE
• A Winlock area man was arrested over the weekend after the 4-year-old child of his girlfriend was brought to Providence Centralia Hospital with bruises and other injuries he said he got because had been breaking “house rules” and stealing food. The boy had been brought to the emergency room to be looked at after he was dropped off at his great grandmother’s house on Saturday morning and told a deputy the bruises on the outsides of his legs were from the boyfriend giving him “knife hand” spankings, the abrasion on his nose was from when he fell on his face trying to get away from a spanking and also that the boyfriend made him get in a pushup position while spraying him with a hose, according to a declaration of probable cause. Ryon T. Connery was arrested for second-degree child assault at the home he shares with the child’s mother, a woman who said they had been dating about four months, according to the document. Connery was not charged, but a Lewis County Superior Court judge this afternoon ordered him held up to 72 hours on $75,000 bail while prosecutors gather more information. The boy told the deputy his broken finger happened when he was made to hold a weight over his head and dropped it, according to the allegations.
HOLIDAY WEEKEND WRECK WRAPUP
• Police and aid were called about 3 p.m. on Friday after a car sideswiped a building on the 800 block of West Main Street in Centralia and ran into a sign for a business a block away. No arrest was made, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 51-year-old Winlock man sustained possible internal injuries when his pickup truck ran into an embankment on the north side of Koontz Road at North Military Road on Wednesday night and is being investigated for possible driving under the influence, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Responders said two people were transported to the hospital after the approximately 8 p.m. wreck.
• A 63-year-old Winlock man sustained minor injuries when he veered off the 100 block of Nelson Road near Winlock and struck a tree on Wednesday evening, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The Ford Taurus was described as totaled. The driver is being investigated for possible driving under the influence, Sgt. Rob Snaza said. Responders said two people were transported to the hospital after the approximately 7 p.m. single-vehicle collision.
• A 22-year-old Winlock resident was reportedly unhurt but totaled his pickup truck when he lost control while passing on a corner near the 1400 block of King Road and rolled it onto its top on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Michael A. Ryan was cited for second-degree negligent driving, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A 36-year-old Chehalis driver was reportedly uninjured when his pickup truck slid on ice and onto its top in a ditch on the 600 block of big Hanaford Road outside Centralia on Thursday evening. The Ford F350 was totaled, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
MOSSYROCK CONFRONTATION ENDS IN ARREST
• A 37-year-old Mossyrock man was arrested following a struggle yesterday morning when he was contacted by law enforcement officers at the 700 block of Williams Street in Mossyrock. Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Rob Snaza said deputies responded with Morton police about 9:30 a.m. in connection with an investigation regarding a domestic incident in Morton and that Anthony C. Burchfield was arrested for resisting arrest. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, also for warrants out of Snohomish County, according to Snaza.
BREAK-IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called about 1 p.m. yesterday about a possible burglary at a vacant building on the 700 block of South Tower Avenue. A window had been broken but nothing appeared to be missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
THEFT OF FOOTWEAR
• Three males between the ages of 19 and 22 from out of town were arrested for allegedly stealing shoes from the Centralia Outlets at the 100 block of West High Street in Centralia early on Friday morning.
STOLEN VEHICLE
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning that a truck was discovered stolen from the 400 block of state Route 505 near Toledo last Monday. When the 61-year-old victim returned after being away, his 1999 Dodge Ram was not in the driveway where it had been left, according to the sheriff’s office. It has a license plate reading B71475X, according to Sgt. Rob Snaza.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Sometime between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, someone broke into a pickup truck parked along Forest Service Road 74 near Mineral and stole tools as well as hunting and fishing equipment, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VANDALISM
• Police took a report about 10 a.m. on Saturday of tires slashed on a car at the 200 block of West Second Street in Centralia.
FIRE CALL AT JAIL
• There were no flames but there were alarms and light smoke when firefighters were called about 4 a.m. yesterday to the Lewis County Jail. It was a mechanical malfunction related to the elevator motor, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. The facility on Chehalis Avenue near Main Street was not evacuated, Fire Capt. Casey Beck said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, trespass, driving under the influence, misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor theft; responses for minor and non-injury collisions, hit and run, 911 call that turned out to be a child playing with a telephone, over-imbibing Thanksgiving day guest … and more.