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POLICE: THREAT TO OFFICER GETS MAN LOCKED UP

• Bail was set at $10,000 for an individual a deputy prosecutor called a self-described gang member who allegedly threatened a police officer yesterday evening when he was detained near East Summa Street and Pacific Avenue in Centralia. Officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to assist the sheriff’s office after a passenger reportedly ran away from a single-vehicle accident, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police say when the subject was detained, he was upset and made death threats. Twenty-two-year-old Deymen Flores-Martinez was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police. He was charged today with felony harassment – for allegedly threatening Officer Doug Lowrey –  in Lewis County Superior Court. Senior Deputy Prosecutor Sara Beigh indicated the threat involved bodily harm. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge Flores-Martinez has no criminal history. Judge RIchard Brosey agreed the defendant who has lived the past 10 years with his parents locally could be released from jail pending trial if both his parents co-signed for his bail.

TOY TAKEN IN BURGLARY

• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 a.m. today when a resident returned home to Southeast Park Hill Drive and discovered a back sliding door unlocked and belongings such as a stuffed toy and clothing missing. The investigation so far has turned up a 10-year-old neighbor suspect, too young to be arrested, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

INMATE’S HOME BROKEN INTO

• Police arrested a 23-year-old homeless man for residential burglary after discovering him inside his brother’s Toledo home yesterday. Toledo Police Department Officer Randy Pennington had booked the brother into the jail for trespassing and was told he worried someone might break into his residence while he was locked up, according to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office. Pennington and another officer went to the home and inside they found Taylor K. Rebman, who appeared to have been hiding in a closet, charging documents state. There was a backpack containing the resident’s laptop computers in a closet, which Rebman said he was he was bringing back to hide there, charging documents state. Rebman was booked into the Lewis County Jail and charged today with residential burglary. His bail was set at $10,000 this afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.

ALCOHOL SPIRITED AWAY

• Centralia police responded to the 500 block of South Tower Avenue just after 3 o’clock this morning to a report someone broke out the window of a business and stole bottles of liquor. Centralia police report an employee chased and confronted the suspects and threats were made to the employee when he asked for the alcohol back, according to the Centralia Police Department. No suspect was found but the investigation continues, according to police.

WATERCRAFT VANISH

• A 44-year-old Centralia resident reported on Saturday evening that someone had stolen his two kayaks and paddles from where he keeps them near the river near the 3800 block of Mayberry Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The loss is stated at $998.96, according to the sheriff’s office.

CAR PROWL

• Somebody broke out a window of a sport utility vehicle at Schaefer Park off Big Hanaford Road outside Centralia and stole a purse, cash, checkbook, wedding ring and a vacuum cleaner, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It happened on Friday evening between 5:30 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. and deputies have a person of interest, according to the sheriff’s office.

VANDALISM

• Chehalis police were called about 6 o’clock this morning to a business on the 500 block  of North Market Boulevard where a glass back door had been broken out.

• An 18-year-old was arrested overnight for allegedly breaking the windows out of a bus stop in Centralia. Officer responding around 1:40 a.m. to the area of B and Sixth Street located Kristopher W. Laseke in the area and arrested him for third-degree malicious mischief,  according to the Centralia Police Department. He was then released pending his court date, according to police.

• Chehalis police were called about 6:30 a.m. today after the discovery of graffiti spray painted onto a building at the 400 block of West Main Street.

DRUGS

• A Thurston County Jail inmate brought to stay at the Lewis County Jail yesterday morning was arrested for a drug violation when a search allegedly turned up turned up medications – antidepressants and narcotics – not prescribed to her, according to the according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Karen B. Overmiller, 44, of Olympia, said she’d gotten them from another inmate in Thurston County, according to the sheriff’s office. One of them was Suboxone, according to prosecutors.

ANIMAL ISSUE

• Centralia police responding yesterday evening to a report of possible neglect of three dogs by a neighbor on the 1300 block of Delaware Street found one of the animals was dead and causing a smell. However, they learned the homeowner was out of town and had arranged for relatives to watch, feed and water the dogs, which they had been doing, according to the Centralia Police Department. A relative arrived while officers were present, according to police. The situation is under investigation, with follow up expected from the city’s animal control officers, Centralia police indicated this morning.

ON THE ROAD

• Chehalis police were called in the middle of the day on Friday after an individual saw a couple exit a Subaru Impreza in the middle of the street near William Avenue and Southwest 13th Street and walk away. The car was impounded, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• A motorist suffered minor injuries when her car struck the median and rolled, coming to rest on its top yesterday afternoon on Interstate 5 in Centralia, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Firefighters called at 4:45 p.m. to the southbound lanes near the Mellen Street interchange found the 32-year-old driver had gotten out of her vehicle on her own, according to the fire department. She was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, Fire Capt. Terry Ternan indicated.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, underage drinking, protection order violation, driving under the influence; responses for alarm, dispute, trespassing, harassment, parking issue, traffic problem, noisy neighbors, misdemeanor theft, child bit by dog, possible runaway child, possible misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation, collision on city street, traffic circle conflict, concern over bad checks, concern about derogatory statements on Facebook, children alone in parked vehicle, dog alone in parked vehicle appearing in distress, business owner asking for panhandler to be removed from parking lot, request to check the well-being of a horse with apparent injury … and more.

Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter

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