[1]Two people are arrested when police visit home on South Pearl Street in Centralia. / Courtesy photo by Rachael Estrada
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Centralia police and their SWAT team served a search warrant looking for drugs yesterday afternoon at a house on the 800 block of South Pearl Street and arrested a resident for maintaining a building for drug purposes.
Rebecca J. Higgins, 41, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. A second person was arrested for an unrelated felony warrant.
About a dozen officers descended on the home about 4:30 p.m., along with their armored rescue vehicle, according to police. Sgt. James Shannon.
The armored carrier is is used with all their SWAT operations, Shannon said, for an extra measure of safety because they never know who might be present. Shannon said there were about six people in the home, but described the events that unfolded as ordinary.
“We knocked on the door, asked them to come out and they did,” he said.
Detectives recovered a small amount of suspected methamphetamine during their search, according to Shannon.
Higgins was arrested for also for possession of meth and delivery of a controlled substance in a school zone, according to police. The delivery count is related to what police called a controlled buy conducted within the past week at the house, according to Shannon.
Higgins also has other controlled substance violations pending in Lewis County Superior Court.