CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Panhandling
• At 7:40 a.m. on July 19, Centralia police were dispatched to the 200 block of Borst Avenue for a panhandling complaint. Officers contacted the subject, an “adult transient male from Toledo,” according to call logs, and gave him a verbal warning for prohibited solicitation.
Disorderly Conduct
• Police were dispatched to the 1600 block of South Gold Street after a man was reportedly looking into business windows and screaming at people in the parking lot at 9:34 a.m. on July 19. Officers were unable to locate him.
• At 7:08 a.m. on July 20, a caller reported a “disorderly transient male who appeared to be under the influence of drugs” was behind a business in the 1100 block of North Tower Avenue in an area that is not open to the general public. The business requested law enforcement contact and asked the male to move along, according to call logs, so officers contacted the male and he agreed to leave the area.
• Centralia police received a secondhand report at 3 p.m. on July 20 of an “elderly adult male exposing himself in a public parking lot” in the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue. When contacted by police, the man denied the accusation, but was trespassed from the property at the business’ request.
Criminal Trespass
• Police arrested a Toledo man and booked him into the Lewis County Jail on criminal trespassing charges after he was reportedly “rummaging” through a house that was under construction at the intersection of East Fourth and B streets at 7:24 a.m. on July 20. Centralia police had recently provided the man a trespass warning, call logs state.
Assault
• A Bellingham woman was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail for reportedly biting a nurse in a hospital in the 900 block of South Scheuber Road just after noon on July 19. The patient then allegedly fled into the nearby neighborhood and was tracked by a Centralia Police Department K9.
• At 11:09 p.m. on July 20 in the 2000 block of Borst Avenue, a Napavine man was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail after reportedly getting into a fight outside a local gym and resisting arrest.
Hit-and- Run
• At about 2:11 p.m. on July 19 in the 400 block of East Summa Street, a citizen reported their vehicle was struck by a dark-colored truck which fled the scene.
Accidents
• A vehicle versus pedestrian accident with injuries was reported in the 1100 block of Belmont Avenue just after 4:30 p.m. on July 19.
• A collision with damage occurred in the 200 block of South Tower Avenue at 11:12 a.m. on July 20.
• Just before 6 p.m. on July 20, a two-vehicle, non-injury blocking collision occurred in the intersection of East Maple Street and North Tower Avenue.
• A two-vehicle, possible injury-causing collision occurred at 6:24 p.m. on July 20 in the intersection of West Second Street and North Washington Avenue.
• In the 1200 block of Harrison Avenue just after 10:30 p.m. on July 20, a two-vehicle, non-injury accident was reported.
Malicious Mischief
• A report of damage to a parking post in a parking lot came in at 4:01 p.m. on July 19 from the 500 block of West Pear Street.
• Several vehicles in the 1100 block of North Tower Avenue were reportedly keyed around 8:30 a.m. on July 20. Centralia police are in the process of obtaining security footage.
Theft
• At 10:13 p.m. on July 19, a caller in the 300 block of West Reynolds Avenue reported an unknown male suspect stole “an ice chest and rode away on a three wheel bike,” according to the Centralia Police Department’s logs.
• A Chehalis resident reported his wallet stolen and discovered his credit card had been used in the 400 block of South Washington Avenue at 10:55 a.m. on July 20.
CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Burglary
• A reporting party told Chehalis police their maintenance worker was “hiding under the bed when they got home, the door was kicked in when they got there,” in the 100 block of Southwest Fifth Avenue at 5:35 p.m. on July 19. Law enforcement arrested the man and he was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
Dispute
• A caller reported a possible dispute inside a building at 1:07 p.m. on July 19 in the 300 block of Southwest Third Street.
Suspicious Circumstances
• On July 19 at 10:37 a.m., a caller reported what he believed to be a drug deal out of a residence around the intersection of Southwest Seventh Street and Southwest McFadden Avenue. The caller reportedly asked Chehalis police to “bring the K9s out and shake ‘em up.”
• A caller at 3:15 p.m. on July 19 from a gymnasium in the 10 block of Southwest Chehalis Avenue reported “her phone being hacked and now her membership being canceled” because “someone had sent inappropriate messages to her trainer.”
• An employee of a business in the 700 block of North National Avenue reported seeing a vehicle at 12:27 p.m. on July 20 that he thought to be suspicious due because it had an Idaho plate. No arrests were made after Chehalis police ran the plates.
• In the 900 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue just past midnight on July 20, a caller reported a man came to their residence and was “looking in their windows then knocked on the door.” The man told the caller, according to police logs, that he was renting the residence. “The reporting party told him he must be at the wrong place,” and he walked off, but the caller said he appeared to be “casing” the area. The caller contacted Chehalis police again at 4:50 p.m. on July 20 upon reportedly seeing the same male drive slowly by their house two times.
• In the 10 block of Chehalis Avenue, at 7:52 p.m. on July 20, several callers reported a vehicle alarm from a gold van was going off.
• A man called 911 at 11:20 p.m. on July 20 from the 800 block of South Market Boulevard to report his Facebook had been hacked, but then said “he’s not entirely sure what he is trying to report,” call logs state, so he told officers he did not need a call back.
• Just before 2:15 a.m. on July 21, a caller reported a suspicious subject who appeared to be stealing catalytic converters from vehicles at a business in the 1000 block of Southwest Interstate Avenue.
Reckless Burning
• A subject was arrested near the intersection of state Route 6 and Northwest Louisiana Avenue and was charged with second-degree reckless burning after a caller reported seeing smoke from under a bridge at 7 a.m. on July 21.
Animal Negligence
• A caller in the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue called Chehalis police at 3:09 p.m. on July 20 to report a dog locked inside a silver vehicle. The caller said the vehicle’s windows were slightly cracked but the dog was panting.
Hit-and-Run
• A hit-and-run in the intersection of Northwest State Avenue and West Main Street reported at 7:28 p.m. on July 19 is under investigation.
• In the 1500 block of Rice Road at 5:21 p.m. on July 20, a caller reported a hit-and-run from ten minutes earlier involving their car and a tan, lifted pickup truck with no plate.
Accident
• A two-vehicle collision with damage involving a 2011 white Ford Fiesta and a red Kia Sorento was reported at 1:18 p.m. on July 19 in the 600 block of Northwest Arkansas Way.
Assault
• Right before 3 p.m. on July 19, a caller told Chehalis police his son was being “out of control” in the 500 block of Southeast Hilltop Drive to the point that the caller was “afraid for his wife’s safety.” The son allegedly then spit on the reporting party, broke his glasses and “forced the reporting party to take meds,” call logs state, so police arrested and booked the son on fourth-degree assault charges.
Theft
• Shoplifting was reported in the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue at 4:03 p.m. on July 20 after a woman “in a silver Jeep … stole a shopping cart full of things.”
LEWIS COUNTY JAIL STATISTICS
As of Friday morning, the Lewis County Jail had a total system population of 149 inmates, including 137 in the general population and 12 in the Work Ethic and Restitution Center (WERC). Of general population inmates, 110 were reported male and 27 were reported female. Of the WERC inmates, nine were reported male and three were reported female.
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Sirens are compiled by reporter Emily Fitzgerald, who can be reached at emily@chronline.com. The Centralia Police Department can be reached at 360-330-7680, the Chehalis Police Department can be reached at 360-748-8605 and the Morton Police Department can be reached at 360-496-6636. If you were a victim of physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence or sexual assault, call Hope Alliance at 360-748-6601 or the Youth Advocacy Center of Lewis County at 360-623-1990.
