TRUCK RUNS OVER FARM PLOWS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office will be tracking down the driver of an 18-wheeler who left the scene after damaging two antique ornamental farm plows as it tried to turn around in a Chehalis driveway last night. The big rig, belonging to Swift Trucking, also drove across landscaping at the 100 block of Taylor Road, according to Chief Deputy Stacy Brown.
MOTORCYCLE STOLEN
• Centralia police took a report yesterday evening that a 50cc Honda motorcycle went missing from the 2400 block of Seward Avenue sometime since Sunday.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police were told yesterday a building on the 1100 block of West First Street had been “egged”.
IGNORE SCAM EMAIL FROM “FBI” AGENT, SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS
• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office this week said it is beginning to get a few citizen reports of receiving emails which Chief Stacy Brown calls the “Agent John Edwards FBI scam”. Brown is hoping to get the word out to prevent any recipients from being victimized. A copy of one of them, in a sample Brown distributed to the news media, reads in part: “Urgent attention: beneficiary” The attachment, purportedly from an FBI agent, describes trunks confiscated at JFK Airport in New York which contain $4.1 million and a document “which bears your name as the receiver of the money …” The message continues that the sender will assist in procuring a necessary certificate in order for you to avoid being arrested, interrogated and prosecuted for evading the taxes. Brown calls the people behind the email “yahoos”.