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Updated at 2:46 p.m.
THEFT, THEFT, THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 11:45 a.m. yesterday to take a report of a theft of a generator from the 700 block of Marsh Street.
• A barbecue was stolen during the night from the 1100 block of West Plum Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.
INDECENCY
• Bail was set at $25,000 yesterday for a 52-year-old man arrested the afternoon before for allegedly sitting in a chair behind his house with his pants around his ankles and masturbating in view of residents across the creek in rural Winlock. The neighbor, the neighbor’s wife, her friend and the friend’s son all saw the incident, according to court documents. Troy S. McClure, who has resided there for three years, is a level two registered sex offender and was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to authorities. Court documents indicate he lives on the 1500 block of Ferrier Road. McClure was charged with indecent exposure, a felony because he had been convicted of a sex offense previously, according to charging documents.
• Officers responded to the 100 block of Main Avenue in Morton about 9:45 p.m. on Friday to a report of a man exposing himself in public. The suspect was cited for indecent exposure and then released, according to the Morton Police Department.
• A 35-year-old Chehalis man was arrested on Saturday and brought before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court yesterday on allegations he had inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with a 14-year-old relative. Christopher M. Leece was ordered held without bail yesterday afternoon after prosecutors told a judge they had received further information that could lead to a charge more serious than third-degree child molestation. Leece is represented by attorney Jakob McGhie.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of graffiti on a power box at First and K streets.
DRUGS
• Chehalis police were called about 1:30 p.m. yesterday to a report of a violation regarding marijuana at the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center on the 1200 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue.
WATER ACCIDENT
• Riverside Fire Authority reports a 19-year-old was rescued from the bank of the Chehalis River near Borst Park in Centralia about 4:30 p.m. yesterday with a lower leg injury he sustained while wading in knee deep water. He was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to Fire Capt. Scott Weinert.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• The Washington State Patrol blamed inattention for a wreck early this morning in Mason County in which the 73-year-old driver from Toledo drove his propane truck into a ditch. Troopers called about 4:10 a.m. to the scene on state Route 101 about 16 miles north of Hoodsport note that Ronald H. Holcomb was not injured. Holcomb had been traveling southbound when he over corrected on a turn and continued about 150 feet before coming to stop in the ditch, according to the Washington State Patrol. During the removal by the tow truck, a fuel tank ruptured and spilled as much as 100 gallons of diesel into a waterway, according to the state patrol. Personnel from the state Department of Ecology were summoned, according to the investigating trooper. Holcomb was to be cited for wheels off the roadway.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, harassment, trespassing, third-degree theft, suspicious circumstances, bleeding baby raccoon which had fallen from a top porch … and more among 191 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.