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Updated at 3:07 p.m.

ETHEL MAN ARRESTED AFTER THREATENING TO JUMP FROM BRIDGE

• A deputy talked a man down, a man who had been standing on the railing of a bridge in Onalaska threatening to jump into the river yesterday afternoon. According to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, it was about 3:20 p.m. when the deputy noticed the subject sitting on the bridge’s rail, at the 100 block of Leonard Road, with a six-pack of beer next to him. The man, subsequently identified as a 45-year-old Ethel resident, reportedly threw a bottle to to the ground, shattering it and when the deputy drove back, the man jumped down and began swinging what was described only as a large metal object toward the deputy. Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said the deputy waited for backup, and soon the man was standing on the rail preparing to jump. The deputy was able to talk him down, offering him a cigarette to calm him, Brown said. The man however became combative as he was being taken into custody, and being carried to a patrol car and kicked a deputy in the rib and waist, according to Brown. Lynn K. Jorgensen Jr. was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree assault and for disorderly conduct, according to the sheriff’s office.

BREAK-IN AT ELKS CLUB

• A 39-year-old Chehalis resident was arrested yesterday evening after he was allegedly caught inside the former Elks Lodge on the 2500 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue. An officer responding about 7:40 p.m. noted some items appeared packaged up to be removed, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Matthew L. Meents was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree burglary, according to police. Prosecutors declined to file charges.

THEFT, THEFT, THEFT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a cable box stolen from the 300 block of South Silver Street.

• Centralia police are investigating the theft of welfare checks, in a case reported yesterday and associated with the 1100 block of West Chestnut Street.

• Centralia police were called yesterday evening to the 800 block of South Pearl Street regarding the theft of mail.

DRUGS AT SCHOOL

• Police were called to W.F. West High School in Chehalis yesterday after a student was allegedly caught with a glass pipe containing burned suspected marijuana. He was arrested and turned over to a a parent, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

OBSERVANT GARBAGE COLLECTOR SAVES HOUSE FROM FIRE

• A garbage truck driver is getting praise from a fire chief after his quick thinking thwarted a house fire in Rochester. Eric Gulbranson was traveling on his route on Southwest 178th Avenue near Jordan Street at about 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday when he spotted smoke coming from behind a home, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority Chief Robert Scott. “He goes through a gate and gets a garden hose, and began putting it out,” Scott said. The flames had spread to some brush and a neighbor put a hose on that area, Scott said. When the fire department arrived, they made sure the fire had not extended in the wall space, Scott said. The exterior damage was minimal, according to the chief. “The owners were not home at the time of the fire,” Scott wrote in a Facebook post.  “His quick actions saved the home from further damage.” Scott said it turned out it was the home of a woman who works with Gulbranson at LeMay. The cause was determined to be a cigarette extinguished in a plastic pot, that caused the fibrous material in the potting soil to smolder and eventually melt the pot, Scott said.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, drugs, trespassing, misdemeanor assault, protection order violation, restraining order violation; responses for dispute, vandalism, misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, request that officers chase off a man sleeping behind a building  … and more.

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Firefighters examine the area burned from a cigarette put out in potting soil at a Rochester residence. / Courtesy photo by West Thurston Regional Fire Authority