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TODDLERS PLAYING BY ROAD AFTER DARK
• Chehalis police responded to an approximately 12:35 a.m. call today that a set of 2-year-old triplets were outside unclothed and running near the street at the 2200 block of Jackson Highway. An arriving officer found the children had been taken back into their home by their parents, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The officer spoke to witnesses and the parents and the incident will be followed up on, according to police.
MOM: CHILD FINDS METH PIPE
• Chehalis police were contacted by a mother yesterday who said she was taking her 2-year-old to be checked out after the child may have put a glass pipe in her mouth while visiting at the father’s home. The mom suspects it was used for meth, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
SCHOOL BUS FIGHT
• Police were called about 3 p.m. yesterday for a report of an assault on a school bus involving two 15-year-old girls that took place in the area of the 400 block of West Summa Street in Centralia. No arrests were made as the investigating officer is waiting to review the video from the bus, and investigating the incident as a fourth-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department.
PORCH PROWLING
• Centralia police were called about 6 o’clock this morning about the overnight theft of items from inside a fenced-in back porch at the 800 block of Euclid Way. The victim told police a fishing pole, tackle box, and two packs of cigarettes were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department. This case is under investigation.
VEHICLE PLATES SWITCHED
• An individual contacted Centralia police just before 9 p.m. yesterday from the 100 block of South Railroad Avenue after discovering a different rear license plate on their vehicle than the one they had been issued. It is unknown when and where the switch was made, according to the Centralia Police Department. The missing plate is B21033W and it was replaced with B67125P, according to police.
• Chehalis police were contacted yesterday afternoon by an individual who said his rear license plate was stolen while he was at a retail store on Northwest Louisiana Avenue.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called at 8:50 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl at the 1400 block of Lum Road.
DRUGS
• A 31-year-old man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine yesterday evening after Chehalis police were called by the drug and alcohol treatment facility on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue and told a client arrived for services and a search of his items turned up suspected drugs and a pipe. William G. Carter, from Monroe, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
PUNCH IN FACE LEADS TO FELONY CHARGE
• A 25-year-old Winlock man was arrested on Monday and charged yesterday with second-degree assault for allegedly striking and injuring an acquaintance more than eight weeks earlier. A Toledo police officer responded on March 27 to the incident at the 200 block of Park Road in Winlock, but subsequently learned when the victim went to the hospital, he was found to have a facial fracture, a broken nose and a sprained neck, according to court documents. The officer was told the victim and his wife were visiting Andrew R. Meza and his girlfriend when an argument erupted between Meza and the girlfriend and the victim was punched in the face, court documents relate. Lewis County Superior Court Judge Nelson Hunt set Meza’s bail at $25,000.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor domestic assault, protection order violation, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, check fraud, shoplifting and other third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, complaint that a purchase of stereo equipment from a guy in a van at a gas station was short on all the pieces … and more, among 156 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6 a.m. today.