Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

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Updated at 3:38 p.m.

DOWNTOWN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TARGETED

• Centralia police took reports from three different businesses yesterday morning that during the night, someone either stole or tried to steal outside security cameras. The first to report was a victim on the 200 block of South Tower Avenue, and soon after, a similar theft was discovered on the 600 block of South Pearl Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. At the 600 block of South Tower Avenue, the camera remained but its mounting bracket broken and pulled from the wall, according to police.

CENTRALIA GARAGE BREAK-IN

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning a garage burglary that occurred at the 3000 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia that occurred during the week and a half that ended on Tuesday while the owner was away. Someone kicked in a door and tried but failed to start up a broken down ATV and made off with a socket and wrench set, according to the sheriff’s office. The tools are valued at $200, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said.

HONDA CAR STOLEN

• Chehalis police were called just before 7:30 a.m. today following the discovery of an overnight vehicle theft at the 200 block of Southwest 13th Street. A white 1995 Honda Accord was reported missing, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The car has a crack across the windshield and a Yankees baseball sticker on its window, according to police.

CASH STOLEN

• Centralia police arrested a 30-year-old resident yesterday after he allegedly took money from the wallet of a female acquaintance and shoved her in the process. Officers called just before 3 p.m. about the incident at the 500 block of Harrison Avenue stopped Tyler V. Geist in a vehicle near exit 88 on Interstate 5, according to the Centralia Police Department. Geist  was booked into the Lewis County Jail for second-degree robbery, according to police. Prosecutors today declined to file the felony charge.

MAIL THEFT

• Centralia police took a report yesterday from an individual at the 1500 block of Lewis Street who said sometime during the night someone stole a check out of the mailbox that was waiting to be picked up by the postal carrier, according to the Centralia Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called about 6:15 a.m. today after a vehicle prowl was discovered at the 1200 block of West Walnut Street. The victim said that sometime during the night an unknown person entered their unlocked vehicle and stole the registration, some mail and a medical marijuana card as well as change from the ash tray, according to the Centralia Police Department.

HOUSE FIRE DOUSED QUICKLY

• Firefighters responding yesterday morning at 11:50 a.m. to a residential structure fire at the Whispering Woods Mobile Home Park off the 17300 block of Sargent Road in Rochester were able to get quick extinguishment, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. Nobody was injured and the damage was minimal according to the fire department. The arriving crew found smoke coming from beneath the single-wide mobile home and subsequently found a discarded cigarette had ignited pine needles and cones, Chief Robert Scott said. The resident will probably need only to replace insulation under the home, Scott said.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, protection order violation, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, lost or stolen phone, collision on city street, building tagged with graffiti, loud neighbor music, growling roaming dog, biting roaming dog, panting dog alone in van … and more, among 167 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.

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