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Tales from the Police Blotter
(Editor's Note: Factural information for 'Blotter' is provided by official law enforcement agencies. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.)
Friday, Sept. 30
*Found sleeping in front of a business in the 100 block of S. Redwood Hwy., a 35-year-old vagrant was warned against criminal trespassing and panhandling.
*Another “transient” individual was seen talking to himself, screaming and removing his clothes in an alley in the 100 block of S. Redwood Hwy. at 11 a.m. The 30-year-old man was ordered to report to his parole officer.
*Dressed similarly to the man seen removing his clothes earlier was a fellow who, while hitchhiking toward Grants Pass on Redwood Hwy. near Deer Creek Road at 3:45 p.m., was causing traffic to swerve around him as he stood in the roadway.
*Although it was reported at 3:30 p.m. that a man in a baseball cap and blue jeans was passed out in front of yet another business in the 100 block of S. Redwood Hwy., a deputy was unable to locate the man later.
*“Not destructive,” but in the presence of children walking by at 5 p.m., a distraught and perhaps intoxicated woman was rolling around in the driveway of a S. Junction Ave. residence, attempting to stand, crying and repeatedly saying “I’m sorry.” She eventually left, the man called back to advise.
*Becoming “increasingly belligerent,” and a problem customer, a 35-year-old vagrant was warned about loitering at Shop Smart Food Warehouse at 5:30 p.m.
*Following a report of a disturbance in which several men were said to be assaulting an individual on E. Watkins Street, a deputy gave one man a ride home, and the situation dissolved.
Saturday, Oct. 1
*Monta Leroy Newman, 48, was cited on charges of third-degree theft and escorted from Shop Smart Food Warehouse after a reported incident of shoplifting at 12:15 p.m.
*Field interviews were conducted at a suspected “transient camp” one-half mile downstream of the Green Bridge on Eight Dollar Mountain Road. The subjects were advised of the 14-day stay limit.
*Valued at $172, a brand-new muffler and tailpipe for a vintage Chevy was removed from the vehicle as it was parked in the owner’s backyard in the 900 block of Caves Hwy.
*Although a woman on W. ListerStreet said her boyfriend had assaulted her and her aunt had gone “to settle the score,” a deputy ascertained that the boyfriend, who declined to press charges, was the victim in the matter.
Sunday, Oct. 2
*Following two reports of a man walking in the middle of Redwood Hwy. near mile marker 22 around 2 a.m., a man was found lying in the road near Eight Dollar Mountain Road at 4 a.m. Said to have a near-to-bursting hernia, the Brookings resident was transported to Three Rivers Community Hospital (TRCH).
*On Lakeshore Drive, a man said he returned home to find a Busch beer can (presumably not his own) in the driveway, and a lawn chair placed directly in front of his door, which was ajar.
Monday, Oct. 3
*On Kerby Ave. a man confronted people who had been shining flashlights into his tenant’s vehicle at 12:43 a.m.
*Two prowlers were stirring up trouble in the 7000 block of Rockydale Road at 22 past midnight.
*Just after 8 a.m. an 18-year-old man was warned against sleeping on the baseball diamond at Jubilee Park.
*Jeffery J. Barry, 49, was arrested at 4905 Happy Camp Road on charges of second-degree assault after he allegedly struck a woman several times with a pick ax. He was also lodged on a warrant charging failure to appear (FTA) on a charge of DUII.
*Also contacted on Happy Camp Road, Christopher Robert Caldwell, 32, was cited to appear on a warrant charging FTA on an original charge of fourth-degree assault.
Tuesday, Oct. 4
*Damage estimated at $500 occurred at Lorna Byrne Middle School when vandals broke a 3 x 6-foot window with an “unknown object,” and a report of second-degree criminal mischief was filed just after 8 a.m.
*Someone fired a pellet gun from the woods nearby, striking on the arm a student on the soccer field, said an instructor at Illinois Valley High School at 9:43 a.m.
*On McMullen Creek Road, a man sought help in recovering some $1,000 worth of designer clothing left when he moved out of the residence some time ago. The person who refuses to return the clothes, he said, just laughs at him.
*On S. Kerby Ave., a woman noted the presence of an abandoned, gray Oldsmobile in her front yard. She noticed some “pills, and a white powdery substance on the ground near the vehicle,” and a note which read “I have your meth,” and “Call me about your driving habits.” The woman was advised that the substances were not narcotics, and that they had been left there from an earlier incident involving the vehicle. She was advised that if she wanted the car removed, it would be at her own expense.
*Perhaps would-be vandals ran from Evergreen Elementary School at 8:22 p.m. after the custodian noted their running about on the roof. She locked up their bicycles, and for a time, one of the “mouthy” kids refused to leave until the bike was returned.
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