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Sharyn’s Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

ALLEGED FONDLING AND GROPING BY SCHOOL BUS DRIVER LEADS TO ARREST

• A school bus driver was arrested yesterday for allegedly groping four teenage girls after their volleyball game in Onalaska. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said the 51-year-old man drives for the Rainier School District and was off-duty but had gone to the game Tuesday in Onalaska to support the Rainier team. Kenneth W. Sands reportedly grabbed a 15-year-old volleyball players buttocks as she waiting to board the bus to go home with the team, slapped a 16-year-old on the buttocks and after he got on the bus, touched the breasts of a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, according to the sheriff’s office. The bus driver kicked him off the bus, the sheriff’s office reported. He also allegedly had repeatedly fondled an adult female spectator during the game, according to the sheriff’s office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said Sands drives both school routes and for the volleyball team. Sands was booked into the Lewis County Jail for third-degree child molestation and referred for possible charges of sexual misconduct and fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation, according to Brown.

MAN BIT, HIT BY SPOUSE

• Centralia police were called yesterday morning to the 1200 block of Alder Street where an individual told them their estranged spouse came into the home, hit him with a phone and bit him in the arm. An investigation was underway; further details were not readily available.

THEFT

• A 26-year-old woman was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle overnight at Northeast Cascade and Fifth avenues in Chehalis. Mary J. Quinn was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Chehalis Police Department. The vehicle was stolen out of Lakewood.

• Centralia police took a report yesterday afternoon of vehicle prowl from the 200 block of East Maple Street in which a purse was stolen and the bank cards used.

DRUGS

• Chehalis police called about 10:30 a.m. yesterday to W.F. West High School on Southwest 16th Street arrested a 15-year-old boy for possession of marijuana.