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Updated at 12 p.m.
AUTO THEFT
• Police were called just after 7 p.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of South Gold Street in Centralia to take a report of a stolen vehicle. The 1972 Ford pickup truck is flat black, with a “rattle-can” paint job and bears collector plates, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police recovered a stolen vehicle just after 2 a.m. today at the 1500 block of Lum Road. The Ford Focus had been stolen from Chehalis and the registered owner was summoned to take possession of it, according to the Centralia Police Department.
BURGLARY AND THEFT
• An officer was called about 10:30 a.m. yesterday regarding a burglary to a shed at the 2600 block of Mount Vista Road in Centralia. A radio and a variety of small garden tools were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police took a report yesterday of a U-Haul car dolly missing from the 10 block of Northeast Median Street. The value is $1,500, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Police were called about 8:30 a.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia to take a report of a missing garden bench.
• An officer was called to the 100 block of Isabell Road in Mossyrock about 9 p.m. on Saturday where an individual reported someone was trying to break in to a home. There was evidence an attempt had been made and have been several previous attempts there in the past, according to the Morton Police Department.
CAR PROWL
• Police were called just before 10 p.m. yesterday about a vehicle prowl at the 1200 block of Borthwick Street in Centralia. It had been locked but someone broke its window to steal bags of unspecified items, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FORGERY
• Police were called about 8 p.m. yesterday to the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia where they were told a forged prescription had been dropped off to be filled. The suspect has not returned to pick it up yet, police reported this morning.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called to the 600 block of Southeast Dobson Court just after noon yesterday where an individual said that sometime during the night, someone broke the driver’s side window of her parked vehicle.
OTHER
• Morton police were called about 1:20 p.m. last Thursday regarding darts being thrown at a front porch on the 100 block of Eighth Street. The case is still under investigation, police indicated yesterday.
FROM THE CLOWN CASE ARCHIVES
• From Morton Police Department at 5:20 p.m. on Oct. 4: “Officers received a phone call referencing a clown running around town scaring people. The female caller requested that the clown be arrested for spitting in the street. She was advised that the clown could not be arrested for spitting in the street and she hung up.”
• Same day, same town, at 5:50 p.m. “Officers responded to the 200 block of VanCleve Way to a report of a suspicious person dressed like a clown hiding in the woods. The officer responded to the area with a deputy and searched a large portion of the wooded area. The officer witnessed a green Ford pickup truck leave the wooded area but was unable to confirm that it picked the person dressed as a clown up. Information was passed onto dispatch and other law enforcement agencies.”
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office over a three-day period in the middle of last week received a handful of calls related to clowns, half of them about Instagram posts (Two from Onalaska and one possibly related to Centralia High School), but the two most substantive 911 calls came on Thursday:
• A caller from the area of Union Street in Centralia stated there was a clown 15 minutes earlier walking in the area with a baseball bat. Deputies were unable to locate anyone matching the description.
• A caller from 100 block of Washington Street in Mineral called in about suspicious circumstances and the kids seeing a clown in their yard. Kids later stated they never saw a clown.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday a motorist was arrested for vehicular assault following the Sunday evening head-on collision at the 16800 block of Old Highway 99, about a half mile west of Tenino. Firefighters called about 6:30 p.m. found each of two passenger vehicles had only one occupant. An adult male said he had no injuries but the woman in the other vehicle had injuries severe enough she had to be airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to Thurston County Fire District 12.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for drugs, warrants, eluding, misdemeanor domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, suspicious circumstances, suicidal person, third-degree theft, collision on city street … and more among 142 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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[2]Old Highway 99 just outside Tenino / Courtesy photo by Thurston County Sheriff’s Office