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Updated at 6:09 p.m.
HOSPITAL PATIENT FLEES FAMILY MEMBER WITH KNIFE
• Bail was set at $50,000 today for a 25-year-old man whose mother said she woke up to find him approaching her hospital bed with a knife raised above his head, but when he tripped and fell, she grabbed her walker and fled. The mom had recently had her right leg amputated at the knee and was not stabbed during the incident on Saturday afternoon at Providence Centralia Hospital, according to court documents. Police responding to the approximately 2:40 p.m. call to the 900 block of South Scheuber Road in Centralia indicated when they arrived, David D. Marrs was detained in handcuffs and seemed to be having a hard time staying awake, with dropping eyelids and slurred speech, according to court documents. Marrs was arrested and booked for second-degree assault and today charged with the same offense in Lewis County Superior Court. His arraignment is set for Thursday.
ARSON INVESTIGATION CHEHALIS
• Chehalis police were called to an alley near the 600 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue early on Saturday morning after two vehicles caught fire. Firefighters responded around 3:30 a.m. for a cargo van fully engulfed in flames, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The fire department returned just after 5 a.m. to the same alley when an individual reported someone tried to light his pickup truck on fire, according to police. Officers collected evidence and the case is under investigation, police department spokesperson Linda Bailey said.
POSSIBLE ROBBERY ATTEMPT
• Centralia police were called just after 9 p.m. yesterday to the 800 block of Harrison Avenue where they were told a 21-year-old Centralia man gunned his vehicle trying to get away from three males he said were trying to rob him and he ran into a landscaping rock. It was originally called in as a hit and run, according to the Centralia Police Department. He said he saw a knife, and officers were later told a male was hit by a car, but police are still trying to sort it out, according to Officer Tracy Murphy.
BURGLARY CHEHALIS
• Police were called about 10:40 a.m. on Saturday to a business on the 1800 block of Northeast Kresky Avenue in Chehalis where a door was found kicked in. Cash and keys were among the items missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
BREAK-IN CENTRALIA
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning some evidence was left at the scene of a burglary to an office on the 3100 block of Ives Road in Centralia that occurred sometime between 5 p.m. on Thursday and 8:50 a.m. on Friday. Stolen from the Catholic Housing Services were deposit slips and an electric wire tester, according to the sheriff’s office.
CAMPING SITES PROWLED
• A deputy was called to Taidnapam Park at the east end of Riffe Lake over the weekend where someone stole several fishing poles and reels from numerous camp spots during the night. Five individuals were victimized sometime between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday, with a loss of about $4,000, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Centralia police were called to the 500 block of Harrison Avenue about 11:15 p.m. yesterday for a car prowl. Someone broke two windows out of the locked vehicle and stole a wallet and clothing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called about 11:20 a.m. yesterday for a vehicle prowl at the 300 block of Southeast Canyon Drive in Chehalis in which someone got into a truck’s toolbox and stole numerous items, including a Poulan 14-inch chainsaw, three fishing poles and tackle as well as Dunlop Fury golf clubs. Among the missing items are a Calloway driver and custom Seahawks putter, according to police.
• Someone stole a Stihl MS066 chainsaw from the bed of a pickup truck at the 1900 block of Southwest Sniveley Avenue in Chehalis, according to a report made to police just before 8 o’clock yesterday morning. It had a 32-inch Oregon saw bar and was valued at $1,000, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police took a report from the 1500 block of North National Avenue on Friday afternoon of a car prowl. The owner noticed its door was ajar and discovered cigarettes and change were missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
MISSING CHAINSAW LOCATED
• Centralia police made a traffic stop just before 8 p.m. yesterday in which two males fled on foot but left the vehicle. Inside, an officer discovered a stolen chainsaw, according to the Centralia Police Department. It happened at Chestnut Street and Marsh Avenue, according to police.
DRUGS
• A 22-year-old Centralia resident was arrested about 8:30 p.m. last night for alleged drug possession after police were called about a possible theft from the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue in Chehalis. Booked into the Lewis County Jail for a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act was Zachary J. Konoske, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
WANTED INDIVIDUALS LOCATED
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning the 29-year-old woman wanted for allegedly lighting her companion’s tent on fire was picked up yesterday on Mellen Street by Centralia police. Kayleigh S. McDaniel, a homeless person from Centralia, allegedly assaulted the 36-year-old victim and ruined his tent early on Sunday at a transient camp along the Chehalis River west of Interstate 5 near milepost 81. McDaniel was booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault and first-degree arson, according to the sheriff’s office. The victim was arrested at the same time yesterday for an outstanding warrant, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Prosecutors declined to file the felony charge today against McDaniel.
• Deputies on Friday visited with a 34-year-old man jailed the night before by the Olympia Police Department, after being contacted driving a gray 2003 BMW, with its front bumper held up with zip ties. The car was suspected to be involved in at least two residential burglaries last week in the Independence Valley west of Centralia. The Olympia resident allegedly confessed to breaking in to the home on the 100 block of Smith Road and another on the 200 block of Nelson Road, saying he wanted to sell or trade the valuables to support his drug habit, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Jeremy R. Bunting was left at the jail in Thurston County but faces possible charges of residential burglary, trafficking in stolen property, three counts of theft of a firearm and three counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. Investigation is still, underway to try to locate the stolen property, believed to have ended up in the Lacey area, according to Brown.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, obstructing, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more, among 127 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 5:20 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter