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UTILITY PAYMENT BOX BURGLED
• Anyone who used the after hours box for the city of Chehalis at the 1300 block of South Market Boulevard after 5 p.m. on Wednesday to leave their water bill payment ought to contact the city. An officer was called yesterday morning following the discovery that someone had damaged the lock and pried open the payment box, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
BOARDER’S BELONGINGS DISCARDED
• Centralia police are investigating a theft consisting of all the contents of a room, which was rented by a 63-year-old man in an apartment at the 2800 block of Russell Road. It appears the resident arranged to have all the man’s belongings hauled away, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BREAK-IN CENTRALIA
• Centralia police were called about 5:30 p.m. yesterday to a report of a burglary at the 600 block of Jefferson Street. Missing was a laptop computer and a play station, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called just after 8 o’clock yesterday to the 800 block of Harrison Avenue where someone had stolen a bowling ball from a vehicle, but it was later located in a field behind Burgerville, according to the Centralia Police Department
TRUMP SIGNS STOLEN
• Three more Donald Trump signs were stolen from the front yard of a resident at the 1000 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia who has been repeatedly victimized in the same manner, according to a report made to Centralia police yesterday.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 16-year-old driver who took out a street sign and struck a fence at Southwest Cascade and William avenues in Chehalis called 911 about 3:30 a.m. today and was arrested for minor operating a vehicle after consuming alcohol and then released to his father. The Ford Ranger came to rest atop some type of water pump, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The teen was unhurt, according to police.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, protection order violation, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, disorderly person, third-degree domestic malicious mischief, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street, collision on city street, collision on city street, collision on city street … and more, among 149 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 6:30 a.m. today.