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DISORDERLY PERSON
• A 33-year-old man who said he was a “psycho” from New York was arrested early this morning for failing to leave a Toledo area store when asked and also for allegedly wiping his nasal discharge on their window. Deputies called about 3:50 a.m. today to the 100 block of Foster Creek Road were told that when a customer tried to get between the man and the clerk, the man tried to stab the customer with a pencil, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The subject fled, there was a short foot chase and then Gary W. Connor, 33, listed as transient, was arrested for first-degree criminal trespassing and third-degree malicious mischief, according to the sheriff’s office. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.
• A 27-year-old jail inmate who allegedly tampered with the fire suppression sprinkler head inside his cell twice yesterday, flooding a housing unit was additionally booked for second-degree malicious mischief. Wellington M. Waggener, from Centralia, is being held in the Lewis County Jail in Chehalis on an unrelated matte, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The estimated damage amount is $900, according to the sheriff’s office.
MISSING MONEY
• Centralia police were called just after 3 p.m. yesterday to the 1300 block of Alexander Street to take a report of the theft of money.
CLOWN HYSTERIA
• Chehalis police were called by a neighbor on Southwest Third Street at 11:47 a.m. yesterday who said the children at the school were scared and screaming they saw a clown in the alley. The caller didn’t see a clown and a responding officer didn’t see a clown, according to the Chehalis Police Department. R.E. Bennett Elementary School Assistant Principal Rachel Dorsey said she and several adults were on the playground for recess with their kids at that time and knew nothing of it until the officer came to ask about it. He said as he was leaving he’d check around, she said.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, suspicious circumstances, third-degree theft, possible attempted sexual assault … and more among 177 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.