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ENTERPRISING THIEVES
• After last year’s theft of as much as a mile of underground street light wiring along Rush Road south of Chehalis, county workers welded the metal lids to the utility boxes closed and poured concrete around them to prevent a reoccurrence. Yesterday afternoon, a deputy was called the area of Maurin and Rush roads after the discovery someone used some kind of tool to pry through the concrete and then cut out and remove an as-yet-unknown amount of wiring. Seven of the junction boxes were damaged, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said it happened sometime since Friday.
INMATE THREATENS JAIL STAFF
• A 41-year-old man from Clarkston, Wash. arrested for misdemeanor trespassing after a disturbance involving a clerk at the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue in Centralia yesterday evening found himself in further trouble after arriving at the Lewis County Jail. Brad D. Kincheloe allegedly told a corrections officer that he was going to kill her in front of her family, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office says Kincheloe was abusive and uncooperative and was further booked for felony harassment.
BURGLARY CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called to a residence under renovation at the 1000 block of Yakima Street about 11:20 a.m. yesterday regarding a break-in.
• Police were called about 9:15 p.m. yesterday about electronics stolen from a home on the 1800 block of Shamrock Drive in Centralia. A possible is suspect is someone the victim allowed inside the residence, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called about 7:30 a.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue in which someone broke out a window and stole a wallet. The victim’s credit cards were subsequently used at local businesses, according to the Centralia Police Department. The case is under investigation, according to police.
• Change from the console of a vehicle was among the property missing after a car prowl on the 700 block of Southeast Adams Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 5:30 a.m. today
• Chehalis police were called to the 200 block of Southwest William Avenue about 9:25 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl.
OTHER THEFT
• A road sign was discovered stolen this morning from West Main Street and Tilley Avenue in Centralia, according to the Centralia Police Department.
PASTURE CATCHES FIRE
• Tenino area firefighters yesterday afternoon attacked a slow creeping fire burning through grass and brush which was threatening a barn off Tilley Road South near the 160th Trail Southeast. The elderly resident was home alone and asleep when crews arrived, but they woke him up, according to Thurston County Fire District 12. The fire surrounded numerous large portions of automobiles in the middle of a pasture, but what caused it is undetermined, Battalion Chief James Fowler said. Less than an acre was charred and nobody was injured, Fowler said.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving with a suspended license; responses for misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, concern about children seen riding in the bed of a pickup truck, opossum running back and forth on sidewalk at Twin City Town Center, request for officers to move along persons believed to be homeless behind a business and elsewhere… and more.