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THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS STOLEN FROM CHEHALIS WOMAN
• An elderly Chehalis resident is out about $23,000 after someone tricked her into believing she’d won a lottery and a car. Police called on Friday found the 81-year-old had been contacted about two weeks earlier and told she was the winner of $2.5 million, according to the Chehalis Police Department. She was told she needed to pay for taxes and the vehicle registration and sent money to individuals supposedly in Florida, Ohio and Maine, detective Sgt. Gary WIlson said. WIlson said the department can contact police agencies in those areas to see if they could track down the perpetrators, but the names given are likely fake. He was not optimistic about solving the theft. “There’s really very little we can do about this,” he said. He repeated advice police give about the various scams, such as people calling and saying you’re a winner, threatening you with arrest or that your grandson needs bail money. “Don’t send money to people, no matter what,” he said.
POLICE OFFICER PUNCHED
• A suspected shoplifter who reportedly punched an arriving police officer in the face was arrested last night. Police responded to the Twin CIty Town Center on Northwest Louisiana Avenue about 9:30 p.m. and when the officer asked the suspect for his identification, he was struck in the cheek, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The officer took a step back, told him he as under arrest and tased him, detective Sgt. Gary Wilson said.Both were taken to the hospital to be checked out, according to police. Booked into the Lewis County for third-degree assault was William M. Eaton Jr., 36, from Chehalis, Wilson said.
BREAK-IN CHEHALIS
• Someone burglarized a downtown Chehalis business and stole about $300 during the night over the weekend. Officers responded to an alarm about 2 a.m. yesterday to a vape shop on the 500 block of Northwest Pacific Avenue and found someone forced open the ]front door. No arrest was made, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
GARAGE BURGLED
• Someone got inside an unsecured garage on Southwest Cascade Avenue in Chehalis and stole a camping airbed, according to a report made to police yesterday morning.
AUTO THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 2:30 a.m. yesterday to Southwest William Avenue where someone had stolen a 1996 Honda Civic. The sliver-gray car has a license plate reading AEL 3752, according to the Chehalis Police Department. It happened sometime after 10 p.m., according to police.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 7:20 a.m. today regarding a vehicle prowl on Southwest First Avenue in Chehalis.
OUTBUILDING BURNS
• Firefighters called about 2 p.m. yesterday to a fire at the 16000 block of Case Road in Rochester found a shed fully engulfed in flames. Flames spread to some nearby trees but nobody was hurt, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. The fire was extinguished and crews cleared shortly after 3 p.m., Lt Rob Smith said.
COLLISION
• A motorist was airlifted from the Chehalis-Centralia Airport overnight after a single-vehicle wreck on the 1500 block of Bishop Road in Chehalis. Firefighters called about 2:15 a.m. to the scene near Maurin Road found a significantly damaged sport utility vehicle in the ditch and the 32-year-old man driving with serious injuries, Lewis County Fire District 6 Firefighter Steven Busz said. Responding deputies found that Joshua B. Breault’s vehicle had struck a garbage can, a utility box and a mobile building, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It appears the driver said he fell asleep, and sustained a head injury and a possibly broken leg, detective Sgt. Dusty Breen said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, trespass, shoplifting, resisting arrest, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, disputes, robbery, harassment, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.