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CANNABIS CANDY FOR KIDS
• Centralia police responded to a report just after 11 p.m. yesterday of a 17-year-old boy allegedly handing out marijuana-laced candy to juveniles in his neighborhood. The case is associated with an address on the 1000 block of Scammon Creek Road. Police say that when confronted, the boy’s mother refused to allow him to talk with police.
AUTO THEFT IN MINIATURE
• Someone stole a battery-operated child’s car from a yard on the 100 block of Collar Avenue in Morton last week, but the vehicle was recovered the following day at the 100 block of Wood Avenue, according to the Morton Police Department. It was damaged and its battery had been removed, according to police.
NOT VEHICLE THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 11:40 a.m. on Monday about the theft of a motorized pedal bike from Southeast Washington Avenue, but shortly after were called back and told the person repairing it had taken it for a test drive.
HOMELESS PERSON STEALS $20 WORTH MATERIAL FROM EMPTY BARN
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday a 29-year-old was arrested the day before for allegedly stripping approximately $20 worth of wiring from a vacant barn on the 200 block of North Military Road in Winlock. A deputy notified at mid-day a woman with a warrant was seen entering the barn subsequently found her hitchhiking, according to the sheriff’s office. The wiring was found on her person and Joanna M. Withrow, described as transient, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for her warrant and for second-degree burglary, Cmdr. Dusty Breen said.
FRAUD
• Centralia police were called about 11:10 a.m. on Monday to the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue regarding the unauthorized use of a debit card.
CAR PROWL
• Police were called about 3:30 p.m. yesterday about a car inside a garage that was prowled on the 2600 block of Howard Avenue in Centralia.
• Chehalis police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to the 1500 block of Southwest Johnson Avenue where they were told someone opened the door of an unlocked vehicle overnight and took change out of the ashtray.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report yesterday evening from an individual at the 900 block of South Pearl Street who said someone had poured sugar in their gas tank overnight.
AND FROM MORTON
• Morton police last Thursday received a report of someone puncturing car tires in the 400 block of Main Avenue, and also along the 100 block of Jastad Drive earlier in the week. The incidents are under investigation, according to the Morton Police Department.
• Police said yesterday they are investigating a suspicious fire, originating at the rear of an apartment complex on the 100 block of Engle Drive in Mossyrock. It was reported about 8 p.m. last Thursday. Nobody was hurt and the damage was limited to the outside of the building, according to Police Chief Dan Mortensen.
WRECK
• A 20-year-old Oakville woman was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after her car hit a culvert, went airborne and rolled early yesterday morning. Troopers responding about 6:20 a.m. to the 400 block of Howanut Road on the Chehalis Reservation found the 2014 Chevrolet Sonic was totaled, according to the Washington State Patrol. The driver, Jordan D. Merriman, had been wearing a seat belt, the investigating trooper reports.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor theft, driving with a suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, misdemeanor assault, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street theft of items out of a boat that turned out to have just been misplaced … and more.