Updated at 3:54 p.m.
DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS
• Three individuals were arrested by Centralia police following an alleged drug deal in which an informant purchased an unspecified amount of methamphetamine in a location only described as in Lewis County. The location was also within 1,000 feet – roughly the length of three football fields – from a school bus stop, according to authorities. Destiny C. Lloyd, 26, Christopher M. Jacobson, 35, and Bryce C. Hargett, 19, were each charged yesterday with delivery of methamphetamine in a school zone, for the incident that took place on Monday, according to court documents. A summary of the arrests from charging documents tells of the confidential informant arranging to meet Lloyd at an agreed location, Lloyd showing up in Jacobson’s car with him, and then the two contacting Hargett who subsequently showed up in a girl friend’s vehicle. Hargett was arrested by Sgt. Brian Warren and detective Adam Haggerty in a nearby store, with a loaded handgun in his waistline, according to the documents. Lloyd and Jacobson’s car was stopped by two other officers. Police reportedly contacted the female who owned the vehicle Hargett was driving, at the Travel Lodge where he was staying, and inside its trunk found a safe that neither claimed as theirs. The safe was searched as abandoned property, and inside of it officers found 87 grams of meth, a few grams of tar heroin, smoking devices, two cell phones and $2,640, according to charging papers. Jacobson, who has lived his whole life with his grandparents in Mossyrock, according to his attorney, was additionally charged with possession of meth and possession of methadone. Hargett, who lives with his grandparents in Centralia, was also charged with possession of meth and possession of heroin. When she made her argument for a bail amount yesterday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court, defense attorney Joely O’Rourke noted Lloyd lives with her mother in Chehalis just down the street from the courthouse. Lloyd’s bail was set at $25,000; Jacobson’s at $50,000 and Hargett’s at $50,000. Each was given a court appointed attorney and scheduled for arraignment tomorrow. Hargett has no prior felony convictions, but has an ongoing case for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, according to court documents.
MORE DRUGS
• An officer responding yesterday morning to a report of traffic in the area of the 900 block of Southwest 21st Street in Chehalis ended up arresting a 28-year-old woman with a warrant and then also for possession of heroin. Michelle A. Gibson was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department. A while later, 29-year-old Timothy M. Arms was contacted walking near the area and arrested for a warrant and possession of methamphetamine, according to police. He was also booked into the jail.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A former Chehalis resident was sentenced today to 15 months in prison in connection with two separate cases that got him brought by law enforcement from North Dakota back to Lewis County earlier this year. Jence S. Sawyer, 23, pleaded guilty in February to reduced charges of second-degree assault for an incident on May 16, 2014 involving his estranged girlfriend and for third-degree rape of a child in connection with an encounter the November before with a 15-year-old girl he befriended in Packwood. Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead said after he is released, Sawyer will have three years of community custody through the state Department of Corrections. Sawyer was represented in Lewis County Superior Court by defense attorney Don Blair.
THEFT INVESTIGATION
• Centralia police were contacted by an insurance agent yesterday asking them to look into a claim of a stolen piece of jewelry. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, disputes, shoplifting, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more.