CAR OWNER ENCOUNTERS PROWLER IN ALLEY
• Chehalis police were called about 10 p.m. yesterday when a woman went to retrieve something from her car and discovered a man in the driver’s seat. The subject pushed her away and fled, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Missing from the vehicle which had been parked in an alley off the 400 block of Southeast Washington Avenue was $200, according to police. Officers, with the help of a K-9 track, ended up finding their suspect hiding in a garage on the 500 block of South Market Boulevard, department spokesperson Linda Bailey said. Timothy M. Arms was booked into the Lewis County Jail for robbery.
OLD GROWTH LUMBER STOLEN
• Someone stole an estimated $2,000 worth of old growth fir split rails from a business on the 4600 block of Jackson Highway outside Winlock, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. The owner told a deputy the theft took place sometime during the past two months, according to the sheriff’s office. About 100 of them are missing, according to the sheriff’s office.
BREAK-IN CHEHALIS
• An individual yesterday reported to police that someone broke into their shed on the 800 block of Folsom Street in Chehalis in February. Taken were lawn tools, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
SCUFFLE AT WAL-MART
• A 33-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested at Wal-Mart yesterday evening after allegedly hiding merchandise on his person, including women’s panties, men’s briefs, batteries and playing cards. Jesse J. Wheeler reportedly resisted arrest and was taken to be checked out for knee pain and then booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Wheeler was booked for burglary instead of shoplifting because he had previously been “trespassed” from the retail store, police said. Police are also asking prosecutors to evaluate the case for a charge of resisting arrest and possession of a dangerous weapon, brass knuckles, according to a department spokesperson. The value of the items was $387, according to police.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT
• A 43-year-old man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly broke his girlfriend’s front tooth and split her lip when he struck her with a coffee mug. A deputy called to the emergency room at Providence Centralia Hospital around 3 a.m. yesterday learned she had grabbed a coffee cup from a night stand to defend herself when he started hitting her because she’d asked about another woman’s name on his cell phone, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim needed stitches for her lip, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Deputies later located Melvin A. Kimbrel at his home west of Centralia and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for for second-degree assault, Brown said.
DRIVER FLEES TRAFFIC STOP
• A 29-year-old Chehalis man was arrested after he allegedly was pulled over by a police officer in Centralia, and then took off after the officer got out their car yesterday afternoon. It happened around 1:20 p.m. in the area of North Gold Street and Ham Hill Road, according to the Centralia Police Department. The officer didn’t pursue the vehicle, but tracked down the suspect later at a residence on Marion Street, according to police. David B. Beatty was booked into the Lewis County Jail for attempting to elude, according to police.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, protection order violation; responses for alarm, disputes, runaway child, customer using a “bad” check, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor assault at juvenile detention center, collisions on city streets … and more.