COLLISIONS
• A 39-year-old Randle man was hospitalized with neck and back injuries after he was driving his motorcycle too fast at a corner in Onalaska and collided with a county sign and a gate yesterday afternoon. A deputy dispatched to the approximately 4:15 p.m. wreck at the 3600 block of Centralia-Alpha Road found the 2001 Yamaha YZF totaled, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Robert J. Williams was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to Chief Deputy Stacy Brown. He was cited for driving with a suspended license, speeds too fast and also for illegal plates, Brown said. The plates were from Washington but the registration indicated the motorcycle was registered in Oregon, Brown said. The case is being looked into further, she said.
• A 37-year-old woman who totaled her car when she wrecked it on the 100 block of Jubb Road south of Chehalis last night was taken to the hospital because of severe back pain and then arrested for driving under the influence. A deputy responding about 9 p.m. to the 100 block of Jubb Road learned the driver Shelley D. Jordan, 37, of Winlock, had walked to a residence where 911 was called, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Jordan was treated and then released, and booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.
DRUGS
• A 43-year-old Centralia man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and second-degree identity theft last night. Denny W. Leighton was booked into the Lewis County Jail following contact with officers around 11 p.m. at the 1200 block of Mellen Street, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CEMETERY PILFERING
• An individual reported to police yesterday morning that flowers and solar lights were missing from their daughter’s grave on the 100 block of Caveness Drive in Centralia.
GOING INSIDE EMPTY HOUSE
• A 34-year-old Centralia man was cited for trespassing into a vacant house on the 1500 block of Grand Avenue in Centralia about 8:20 a.m. yesterday. Jeremy J. Phillips was issued his citation and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FROM THE COURTHOUSE
• A Vietnam veteran accused of touching a young relative in Centralia about seven years ago when she was a third grader accepted a plea offer this morning as his trial was about to begin. Robert A. Kinney, 61 when he was arrested in July, made an Alford plea to first-degree child molestation in Lewis County Superior Court. It was just Monday when Judge Richard Brosey helped persuade Kinney not to represent himself at trial, and resume representation by a lawyer. His sentencing will come later.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, protection order violation; responses for disputes, theft, hit and run, found bicycle, suicidal person, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city streets, homeless man out by a garbage bin drinking … and more.