CHEHALIS CITY EMPLOYEE SUSPECTED OF THEFT OF CASH FROM SAFE
• An investigation into a November burglary at a city of Chehalis building on South Market Boulevard at 13th Street led to a city employee, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Money – including some raised through a benefit for the daughter of a pair of police department employees – was stolen from a safe, according to police. It was reported the morning of Nov. 19. Chehalis detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said the burglary to the community services building involved an amount of less than $1,000, but he didn’t have the details readily available. The case involving the city employee, whose name he did not disclose, was referred to the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office for a charging decision sometime in the days before last Wednesday, McNamara said. He referred questions about the case to the city manager.
THEFTS
• Centralia police were called about 8:20 p.m. last night to a burglary at a residence on the 1100 block of Borthwick Street in Centralia. Among the items taken several laptops and video game systems as well as camera equipment, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Tools and other items were taken in a burglary to a camper and outbuilding on the 700 block of Green Mountain Road near Mossyrock, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The break-in was reported on Saturday.
• Morton police were called about 9:20 p.m. on Saturday about a possible burglary at a residence on the 500 block of Division Avenue in Morton. An officer spoke with the resident who said she climbed through a window because she had misplaced her keys, according to Morton police.
• Police took a report on Saturday about the theft of items (unspecified by police) from a shed on the 1100 block of South Schueber Road in Centralia.
• Police were called to a report of a vehicle prowl about 5 p.m. yesterday at the 800 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. Missing were glasses and some change, according to police.
• Police were called about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday about a car prowl on the 900 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia.
• Centralia police were called to reports of somebody siphoning gas from vehicles yesterday morning on the 2600 block of Borst Avenue and the 900 block of Rotary Lane in Centralia.
• Centralia police took a report on Friday morning of tampering with a power meter to a residence on the 500 block of Hillkress Street in Centralia.
DRUGS
• James Robinson, a 51-year-old Port Angeles man, was jailed for possession of cocaine after his arrest Saturday evening for shoplifting from two stores in the area of the 1300 block of Lum Road in Centralia, according to police.
• A 42-year-old Centralia man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine on Saturday night at the 600 block of J Street in Centralia. Dennis L. Lindquist, also driving with a suspended license, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
COLLISIONS
• A 29-year-old driver was hospitalized after a single-vehicle wreck about 3:40 p.m. yesterday near Randle, according to the Washington State Patrol. Jessica Talavera, of Lakewood, was taken to Morton General Hospital with back and leg pain after she drove her car off the right shoulder into a ditch on U.S. Highway 12 near Davis Creek Road, according to the state patrol. The 2006 Nissan Altima was described as totaled.
• Nobody was injured when a car drove into a pond near Northwest Louisiana Avenue and Northwest Airport Road in Chehalis at about 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, according to police.
• One individual was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after a rollover accident just after midnight near Raubuck and Pleasant Valley roads west of Napavine, according to Lewis County Fire District 5.
SUSPICIOUS FIRE
• Firefighters called about 8:30 p.m. last night to a fifth-wheel trailer fully engulfed in flames in Rochester called sheriff’s deputies as the fire was suspicious, according to Chief Robert Scott of West Thurston Regional Fire Authority. The RV, unattached to any vehicle, was parked on some property near near Case Road Southwest and Poelhn Road and there was nobody around when the fire department arrived, according to Scott. The trailer was destroyed, he said