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News Briefs
Woman claims son was touched inappropriately
Tenino Police Department received a call at 7:34 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18 from a Rainier woman alleging that her husband improperly touched their 4-year-old son.
“It was one parent reporting the thought the other parent was doing something,” said police spokeswoman Wendy Jones.
No case has been filed yet because of a lack of evidence.
“It (the investigation) is not anything to a point where any progress has been made in it; it’s in the preliminary stages,” Jones said.
Meantime, the mother is seeking a protection order.
“But there is no, quote, ‘proof’ that there has been anything,” Jones said.
The mother said she didn’t like the way her husband was touching their son, the police report said.
She saw nothing, but said when she tried to question the child about it, he ran away from her. Missing car in Rainier turns up the next day
A missing vehicle was reported to Tenino police around noon Friday, Dec. 26.
The car’s owners live in the 900 block of Tipsoo Loop North, Rainier.
The car was taken from the owners’ property, with both sets of keys still inside their home.
The owners reported hearing a loud noise at about 10 p.m. Thursday.
The car, a 2001 silver Saturn coupe, was found the same day by deputy sheriffs in the Yelm Eagle’s parking lot.
The owners of the stolen vehicle picked it up at their convenience.
Damage to the car included a broken driver’s side window, missing CDs and a missing global positioning system.
The owners said they would contact police again after talking to their insurance company around the first of the year.
Police have no suspects. A special weather statement has been issued by the National Weather Service.
Snow is expected through the remainder of the week. Cold arctic air will remain over Western Washington, causing daytime highs to stay near freezing and nighttime lows possibly dropping to single digits.
Snow is expected in the Yelm area through Thursday night and on Sunday. Fender bender turns ugly
A routine traffic accident turned hostile last week after a man hit struck one of the parties involved in the head.
A 17-year-old girl was turning out of the Yelm High School parking lot westbound onto
Yelm Avenue Friday afternoon when she collided with a car driven by George Whitlock, 62, of Yelm.
The girl’s 1992 Chevy Corsica hit the driver’s side of Whitlock’s 2009 Toyota.
A passenger in the girl’s vehicle, a 17-year-old boy, got out to survey the damage.
“Witnesses say Whitlock was agitated from the beginning,” Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil said. “He asked Whitlock to calm down and stop yelling.”
Whitlock allegedly struck the boy in the back of the head with a closed fist.
The boy got back into the vehicle and waited for police to arrive.
Whitlock told police he thought the boy was going to swing at him and thought he would get one in first, Stancil said.
The girl was cited for failing to yield the right-of-way. Whitlock was cited for fourth-degree assault.
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