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Breaking news: Homicide arrest made in Centralia drug death

Updated at 12:05 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

An arrest has been made in connection with last year’s drug overdose death of Tyson J. Anderson, 23, of Centralia.

Centralia police yesterday re-booked a man already in the Lewis County Jail – on another matter – for controlled substance homicide.

Robert T. Lusk is scheduled to go before a judge this afternoon.

Anderson died when visiting a home at the 500 block of North Iron Street in Centralia last April 22, according to police department spokesperson Officer John Panco.

“After a long investigation we have a suspect, or somebody arrested, which is always a good thing in this kind of thing,” Panco said this morning.

Lusk, 36, from Chehalis, was also arrested for delivery of a controlled substance, Panco said.

Panco didn’t know this morning what drug was involved, he said.

Lewis County Senior Prosecutor Will Halstead said it’s not a case of forcing drugs into another person’s body, but that if someone delivers drugs to another who subsequently dies from them, that can be controlled substance homicide.