CHICK HOUSE BURNS
• Firefighters were called this morning to a structure fire in Rochester that burned a small outbuilding where chicks were being raised. The 7 a.m. call took personnel from West Thurston Regional Fire Authority to 201st Avenue Southwest and Ashbrook, according to Battalion Chief Jacob Yake. The chicks inside perished, he said. He didn’t say how many. The cause was not released.
COLLISION
• Centralia police arrested a man on Saturday evening at Harrison Avenue and N Street following a vehicle accident. Officers concluded Jovanny Montenegro Perez, 20, of Centralia, was under the influence of alcohol and booked him into the Lewis County Jail for two counts of vehicular assault. Perez was not charged, pending further investigation.
ASSAULTS
• Centralia police on Friday afternoon were looking for Joshua D. C. Rhoades, a 30-year-old they suspect in a road rage incident that included racial slurs and an assault near Bryden Avenue and Mount Vista Road. Police note the Centralia man is a member of the LVL gang who was last seen driving a dark colored SUV.
• Chehalis police were called Friday evening to an assault on an officer from a detainee at the Lewis County Juvenile Justice Center. Further details were not readily available.
• Police were called about 2 a.m. on Saturday to an individual outside a bar on the 300 block of Northwest Chehalis Avenue about a misdemeanor assault. Further details were not readily available.
AUTO THEFT
• A Toledo woman called 911 after seeing somebody drive off in her 1999 Honda Civic about 4:45 p.m. on Saturday from a parking lot at Lucky Shot Archery on the 400 block of Coal Creek Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The car has a license plate of 100 YFB.
OTHER
• Chehalis police were called to the 300 block of Southwest Ninth Street just before 9 a.m. on Saturday where an individual known to the resident had kicked in the door. A male was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail. Further details were not readily available.
BUSINESS BURGLARY
• Crime Stoppers of Lewis County is looking for information on a Jan. 8 break-in at Famous Footwear at the Centralia Outlets in which somebody caused several thousand dollars damage and stole a black safe with a digital keypad. The amount of cash inside was not disclosed. Crime Stoppers asks that anyone with information call 1-800-748-6422.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter