UNAUTHORIZED WITHDRAWAL
• Centralia police are investigating the theft of $9,000 cash from the home of a woman on the 100 block of North Cedar Street. An officer called about 8:45 p.m. yesterday after the discovery learned the money was stored in a safe and had vanished sometime during the previous two weeks, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Stacy Denham said since there was no forced entry to the home and the safe itself was not taken, police are not leaving anyone out of the suspect pool. The reason she had such a large amount in her home, was she just didn’t like banks, Denham said.
THEFT OF FIREARM
• Someone stole a Taurus 38 special revolver from a home on the 300 block of Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia. A deputy called to the residence about 8 a.m. on Saturday learned from the 57-year-old victim it had occurred sometime since Thursday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is listed at $350, Sgt. Rob Snaza said.
THEFT OF BABY’S ESSENTIALS
• Someone stole a diaper bag from a woman at the 1700 block of South Market Boulvard in Chehalis on Friday afternoon. An officer called just before 3 p.m. was told the victim was unloading groceries into her home and had set the bag outside her apartment door, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• An officer took a report about 10 a.m. yesterday from the 1500 block of Lewis Street in Centralia of a wallet getting stolen from a vehicle.
COLD RABBIT CAGE INQUIRY
• Chehalis police called just after 3 p.m. on Friday to the 1700 block of Southwest 19th Street about a rabbit in a neighbor’s backyard cage which appeared to have died from the cold weather found indeed it looked like it had frozen to death. The incident is being referred to the city animal control officer for follow up, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
WORKER FLOWN TO HARBORVIEW WITH ARM INJURY
• A 35-year-old employee at a manufacturing business in the Chehalis Industrial Park was hospitalized with major injuries to his arm after his glove got caught in a machine with large rollers on Friday morning. Aid and the sheriff’s office responding about 7 a.m. to Imperial Fabrication at the 200 block of Maurin Road learned the Napavine man was cleaning the piece of equipment used to bend metal when his left glove, hand and then arm was pulled in and crushed, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital and subsequently flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Sgt. Rob Snaza said. His current condition was unknown, Snaza said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, shoplifting; responses for alarms, protection order violation, non-injury rollover accidents on county roads, collisions on city streets; reports of hot pink wallet lost in area of Centralia Post Office, dog barking non-stop, dog tied up outside in the weather, kids throwing snowballs and firecrackers at family of raccoons in a tree, ATV racing on a city street, truck doing doughnuts, kids being pulled on snowboards behind vehicle … and more.