WOMAN STABS BOYFRIEND IN CENTRALIA, POLICE SAY
• An 18-year-old Centralia woman was arrested yesterday evening in Centralia after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the rib cage with a pocket knife. Police, called about 6:20 p.m. about a dispute between a young couple, found them on foot near West Cherry and Yew streets. Bridget J. Parker, 18, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree assault, according to the Centralia Police Department. Her boyfriend, T.J. Reynolds, 19, of Centralia, initially tried to flee but was detained and taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with what was described as a minor cut. Reynolds was arrested for misdemeanor assault, for allegedly pushing his girlfriend to the ground. He was subsequently released from the hospital not booked into jail, according to police. Update at 6:50 p.m.: The Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office declined to charge Parker, as she was reportedly attacked first and repeatedly. She was released from jail today.
DRIVE-BY SHOOTING COMPLAINT
• Deputies were called yesterday when a man walking along the 900 block of Burnt Ridge Road near Onalaska said somebody passing by in pickup truck pointed a gun out the window and fired it. Lewis County sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said they think it was a shotgun, fired into the air and perhaps meant to scare the individual, not hit him. No suspect was found, according to Aust.
FIGHT OUTSIDE BAR
• Police and deputies responded about 2 a.m. on Saturday to a report of a large number of people fighting behind a bar in Chehalis. The individuals involved had left before officers arrived in the area of Northwest Pacific Avenue, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
ONLINE THREATS LEAD TO ARREST OF TEEN
• A 16-year-old Chehalis boy was arrested for harassment on Friday on Southwest 17th Street near W.F. West High School for allegedly making threat on Facebook toward another 16-year-old boy, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called Saturday morning to the Lewis County Mall on Northeast Hampe Way in Chehalis where windows were broken out of five different vehicles belonging to mall tenants, including three belonging to the state Department of Corrections.
• Chehalis police were called Friday night to a report of slashed tires on Washington Avenue.
THEFT
• Police were called this morning to the 1100 block of South Pearl Street in Centralia where somebody had stolen the tires and rims from a parked car.
• Centralia police were called Saturday morning about a burglary to a residence on the 1500 block of Delaware Avenue. Somebody forced their way inside and stole cash, according to police.
NO THEFT
• Centralia police are looking for an individual they say falsely reported a robbery in progress to a business on the 500 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia just after 6 p.m. on Saturday.
DRUGS
• A 31-year-old man was arrested yesterday afternoon for allegedly trying to fill a forged prescription for Oxycodone at the Wal-Mart pharmacy in Chehalis. Wayne M. Jahner, of Spanaway, was booked into the Lewis County Jail for illegal possession of prescription drugs, according to Chehalis police.
FIRE CALL TO RETIREMENT COMPLEX
• Chehalis firefighters were called about 10:30 p.m. last night to the Vintage Apartments on the 1500 block of North National Avenue to a report of smoke on the third floor. They found a coffee pot had melted in one of the apartments. The resident woke up to a smoke alarm and was unharmed, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.