Updated at 7:29 p.m.
CRASH CENTRALIA-ALPHA ROAD
• A 38-year-old Winlock resident was injured last night when he wrecked his truck on the 2200 block of Centralia-Alpha Road southwest of Chehalis, in the same area where a Centralia man was killed early last month after he lost control of his car and struck a tree. Deputies and aid called about 8:20 p.m. to the scene near Senn Road found the Ford F350 pickup had been westbound and rolled into a tree, creasing the passenger compartment on its top. The driver got himself out, but he had a head injury and possibly broken hand, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. “He does not remember how the collision occurred,” Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Stacy Brown said. The patient was transported with advanced life support medics to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to District 6 Fire Chief Tim Kinder. Kinder said the accident was within about 100 yards of the Dec. 6 incident that took the life of 25-year-old Dustin N. Meyer. It’s a stretch of road that’s seen many collisions, according to firefighters. “I think it’s uneven, or it dips, or it does something odd,” Kinder said. “If you come around the corner not paying attention, or going too fast, it’ll kick you into the trees.” Last night’s driver was expected to be cited for wheels off the roadway, the sheriff’s office reports.
WRECK STATE ROUTE 7
• Two people were injured and one airlifted to a Seattle hospital after an overnight single-vehicle wreck about two miles north of Morton. Troopers responding about 1:30 a.m. report a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse was southbound on state Route 7 when it veered to the right, striking a guard rail and then veered off the left side of the roadway striking the dirt embankment. The driver, Kara D. Bovee, 23, from Tacoma, was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to the Washington State Patrol. She faces a charge of driving under the influence, according to the state patrol. Her passenger, Shaun L. Sanchez, 26, from University Place, was transported to Morton General Hospital, the investigating trooper reports.
BIG SPENDERS CHEAT RETAILER
• Chehalis police were called to Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon following the discovery that someone had passed 11 fake $20 bills. It happened sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 8 a.m., and a look at security video indicated it was a male and a female, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The counterfeit money was taken into evidence and the investigation continues, according to police.
EASY PICKINGS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports someone prowled a truck on the 100 block of Mienars Road in Morton sometime between 7 p.m. on Tuesday and 10 a.m. the following morning. Stolen from the unlocked Toyota Tacoma was a generation five iPod and a digital camera, according to the sheriff’s office. “This is an excellent time to remind people that they really need to keep their vehicles locked and not give thieves easy access to valuables inside,” Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Better yet, don’t leave valuables in vehicles to entice them, Brown says.
CHIMNEY FIRE
• Winlock firefighters were called out about 6 p.m. yesterday for a chimney fire on the 300 block of Southeast Front Street. “Crews arrived pretty fast, we extinguished it in the chimney,” Firefighter Patrick Jacobson said. “We checked for extension, and there was none.” Firefighters like it when they stay in the chimney, he said.
FENDER BENDER
• A driver pulled out of a parking lot in front of a Centralia police car yesterday causing a minor collision. Nobody was hurt and the damage was minor, according to the Centralia Police Department. Further details were not readily available.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, domestic misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence, protection order violation, driving with suspended license; responses for disputes, harassment, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Yes, they will still be able to steal people’s belongings, they just won’t be able to use federal law to do it.
T Orr….. Local cops seize assets under state law, RCW 69.50.505. With that said, I’m positive that local cops will still be taking money and assets that are proceeds of illicit activities.
Holder’s exact words: “State and local police in the United States will no longer be able to use federal laws to justify seizing property without evidence of a crime.”
Looks to me like the cops are just going to have to go out and work instead of stealing people’s property like a bunch of lowlife thieves.
The guy who insists the Chehalis river is glacier fed ?
Bahlsdeep: the new law applies to both State and local police juristictions. Let’s see, Holder is working for the White House and you’re living in Lewis County posting drivel on a website.
Who’s the real moron?
Kim, your posts intrigue me. Assuming you have medical clearance to smoke/grow pot, your legal limit is 15 plants (according to I-502). If you weren’t growing hundreds of plants, how many WERE you growing?
The more important (to me) question is about the jury not being permitted to have the law read to it when asked: Did that apply only during testimony? The only reason I can see a judge refusing to grant a jury’s request to have a law read to it would be that it might take too long to read while testimony is being given. I can’t believe the jury didn’t have access to that law during deliberations.
Sicofit….. Holder is a moron and his new rulings dont affect local law enforcements ability to seize property. He’s just telling federal agents what they can do, not state police.
Law enforcement jobs are NOT even as dangerous as being a logger or an Alaskan fisherman.
The job of law enforcement is similar to that of a proctologist. They both just deal with assholes all day.
I also need to make perfectly clear that I have no ill will towards any of the law enforcement officers involved in my case. They have a very hard job and so very dangerous. I, certainly could never do that job. Nowadays they are not appreciated the way they should be, they are heros every day and I pray that GOD keep them all safe and bless them with HIS perfect peace. I’m out GOD bless you.
Shame on you all. You have no idea what my case was about because it was never reported in the press. Both of my cases where about the state not getting their cut. Because the recreational cannabis law passed and the state is now allowed to tax it, they are going after people who grow it as medicine because they want their money, they always want more and more tax dollars to spend foolishy when times are good, and when times are bad- they still want more and more. King county also found that I am NOT a criminal. Both cases against me are over. I never personally grew several hundred plants and whereever you are getting your information from, most likely the state, you read it on the internet so it must be true, right? I was in complete compliance with the medical cannabis law, the one I was charged under and the judge would not allow the jury to read for themselves. When all this started my compliance
didn’t matter to lewis county they still came onto my private property and took everything I own that had any value in direct violation of the 14th amendment of the united states constitution, before they ever even charged me with a crime. You people here are NOT even a close representation of the good people of lewis county, you can’t even be decent when a person, who you dont even know, is found innocent. I KNOW that GOD is on my side because yesterday the attorney general of the united states said the U.S. will no longer allow local law enforcement to seize personal private property under federal guidelines, the very guidelines lewis county used to seize my things. Do you think GOD is on your side? Genisis 1:29
Kim,
Take some of that money you make by growing & selling narcotics and take a simple English class. It is much needed along with some spelling help.
Typical uneducated druggie.
so you got lucky this time skank. i’m sure you’ll be arrested, charged and convicted in the future. and yes, your right, the truth will come out but by then your skanky ass will be in prison where it belongs….hahahaha…. be looking over shoulder, some of the people you think are your friends are just playing you.
Ms. Steger. In a quick Google search of you, it looks like you were busted growing several hundred plants up north too. If you don’t like Lewis County, a place we love, then leave. I’ll drive the Uhaul.
I didn’t think Dustin Meyer passed away. Isn’t there a fundraiser going on this weekend for him?
I can’t believe this so called newspaper. Totally typical of an american news source though. Every meth head and baby killer and molester is in here, drunk drivers, wife beaters and just plain old dumbasses, they are all here. But a trial just took place this week in your lewis county courthouse that has an effect on cases in the entire state and since the very start of it, search warrant, seizure of private property without due process, denial of the reading of the law in a court room, which that is something really disturbing when a judge says you are not allowed to read the law to the jury when they ask for a reading of that law. Of course the reason we wanted the law read was because the prosecuter kept lying to the jury saying that collective gardens are illeagle. Thank God the people in this county are smart enough to smell something fishy and found me not guilty on all counts. I think I may be the first person acquitted for medical cannabis in this county. What’s the deal sharyn?? You dont wanna print the story when your friends are doing the wrong thing and lying in a court of law? They are officers of the court. Their job is not to get a conviction but to find the truth. Thank you good people of lewis county for seeing and understanding that I am not a criminal. Most gratefully, Kim Jeanyne Steger