CHEHALIS, Wash. - A police task force resorted to serving a search warrant on DCYF's Green Hill correctional school in Lewis County, after commanders say their official requests for an investigation were brushed off.
The raid uncovered more than 100 contraband items, including fentanyl, meth, and shanks, that had gone unreported for years.
Law enforcers had been clamoring for an investigation for months. In mid-2023, Centralia Police Chief Stacy Denham, and other leaders of the Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET), sent a letter to Governor Jay Inslee alerting him of suspected criminal activity on the Green Hill campus, including an alleged intimate relationship between an employee and a student, overdoses within the facility, and concern that mentors were smuggling drugs to residents.
