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Tales from the Police Blotter
(Editor's Note: Factual 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.)
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Tuesday, Nov. 1
*Items were reported taken from tool bins within the fenced perimeter of the city of Cave Junction sewage treatment plant on N. Sawyer Avenue. Some items had been recovered by the complainant, who also had suspect info.
*All was OK after motion detection alarms activated at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on S. Old Stage Road at 10 a.m.
*On Jeannie Way, an unlocked vehicle was ransacked overnight and the keys were taken.
*A deputy was flagged down on Lone Mountain Road to help resolve a dispute between a hunter and land owner, but they decided they could handle it themselves.
*Two drivers exchanged information following a door-damaging incident on the CJ Select Market lot at 1 p.m.
*An employee of the Dept. of Human Services asked a deputy to stand by during a “knock and talk,” as allegations of “heavy meth use” at a home on Schumacher Street were investigated. It appeared to be an unfounded complaint.
*Concerned that his tenant would “flip out” when he served her eviction papers, a man at the Illinois Valley Substation requested that a deputy advise him of his options.
*On Taurus Lane, a man said that his ex-roommate threatened him, likely because he had filed a complaint about his abandoned dog having attacked him. Later he said that the guy had retrieved two of his dogs, but that two cats and a dog remained.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
*At 9 a.m. a mother and daughter on Caves Avenue were fighting over too many days of missed school, and they needed assistance.
*Someone attempted to enter a garage on Naue Way, damaging a lock, a man said.
*Several unlocked vehicles in the 1000 block of Caves Hwy. were entered, but nothing was taken.
*Her bolt-action rifle was taken from her son’s house on Redwood Hwy., a woman said.
*On Crooks Creek Road, a woman was concerned about an older, blue pickup truck left parked on the street.
*Neighbor kids were interfering with fence installers, hitting the fence with sticks and spraying the workers with water, said a woman on Hogue Drive. Due to hostile neighborly relations, a deputy was asked to deal with them.
*An orange-and-green backsight survey tripod valued at $500 was taken by a ’hippie-type” man in a white-and-primer gray spotted van on Althouse Road, it was reported at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 3
*Following a 12:30 a.m. motor vehicle accident (MVA) at Lone Mountain Road and Naue Way, Toby Jay Myers, 34, was found to have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .18. He was cited on a charge of driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUII). Ryan Asa Deffenbach, 22, was transported to Three Rivers Community Hospital by American Medical Response and cited on a charge of driving with a suspended (DWS) license.
*Her husband from whom she’d been separated for a couple of years was banging on the door of her apartment, said a woman who phoned from Downtown CJ at 11:35 a.m. She said that he was being a jerk. He was contacted and advised to leave her alone.
*A tree, 2 to 3 feet in diameter, was down across both lanes in the 7000 block of Rockydale Road, a caller said at 12:30 p.m.
*Investigation continued in the case of a vandalized vehicle at I.V. High School, originally reported in October.
*“Possibly on something,” a man with a small cut on his chin was running around on W. River Street yelling, “Help me, help me!” a caller said.
*An allegedly drunken driver in a 35-foot-long motor home was said to be headed to yet another Cave Junction bar at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 4
*Arrested at gunpoint in a stolen vehicle on O’Brien Road at 1:18 a.m., Devin Leif Carrier, 18, was taken to Josephine County Jail on charges of unauthorized use of a vehicle, and attempted eluding. Also, Andrew Wayne Reyes, 14, was taken into custody on a charge of violating curfew, and lodged at the Juvenile Justice Center in Grants Pass.
*In the left-turn lane from Redwood Hwy. onto Caves Hwy., a large generator or welding machine slid from the back of a pickup truck at 9:43 a.m., causing a temporary problem until Oregon Caves Chevron used a tow truck to retrieve whatever it was.
*The owner gave chase after a utility work truck was taken from ADI Electric in Cave Junction at 11 a.m. The thieves abandoned the vehicle on Rockydale Road, and fled, crossing back and forth across Illinois River at the old city park on S. Old Stage Road and then through town before pursuers lost sight of them.
*In the 500 block of Old Stage Road, a 46-year-old man was warned about operating an unsafe vehicle on a public roadway, and failure to maintain the proper lane of travel.
*“Intoxicated, belligerent, and highly uncooperative,” Leslie Roy Jansson, 49, was detained in rural CJ on a charge of parole violation and lodged in county jail.
*Untold numbers of vehicles were reportedly “spinning out” and “doing wheelies” on property in the 27000 block of Redwood Hwy. at 3:30 p.m.
*“Road rage” apparently prompted an unidentified driver in the 2000 block of Caves Hwy. to run two other vehicles off the road at 4 p.m.
*Parked in front of Darn Near Everything for the last three days, a man and his old, two-tone pickup truck were told to move on this afternoon.
*A man who had been drinking was yelling at a residence on Takilma Road at 4 p.m., but had not tried to enter.
*A special agent with the National Insurance Crime Bureau asked deputies to contact a woman in the 36000 block of Redwood Hwy., who may either be a victim of an RV consignment scam or part of a suspected auto theft/gypsy ring.
*On Dick George Road a woman was advised of her options after her ex-boyfriend made unwanted “third-party contact” via his sister-in-law.
*An old stump may have been the “dark, hairy thing” around which a driver was forced to swerve on Deer Creek Road at 9 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 5
*No injuries were reported in a two-car MVA on Lakeshore Drive. Salvatore Raymond Realmuto, 19, was cited on a charge of DWS.
*Although still considered to be a resident there, a man damaged a door lock and entered a valley adult foster care facility without permission. Caretakers were told to phone if he was “drunk and disorderly, and puts people in fear of their safety.”
*Said to be a “frequent flyer at the house across the street,” a man in the 200 block of W. River Street got into a vehicle without license plates, put his hand through a side window, shattering it, and drove away, a witness stated at 8:50 a.m.
*With its back door glass shattered, a home on N. Junction Avenue was burgled, a neighbor reported for the vacationing home owners at noon.
*“Drunk, belligerent, and unwelcome,” Leslie Roy Jansson, 49, was warned about criminal trespassing in the 300 block of June Drive; but with a BAC of 0.15, he was detained on a charge of parole violation and lodged in county jail.
*A semitruck driver said that a gold-colored vehicle that attempted to pass him in the 29000 block of Redwood Hwy. almost ran him off the roadway; then turned off the road into some bushes and had not yet reappeared. A deputy was unable to locate it.
*Advised by her neighbor that lights had come on at her S. Kerby Avenue residence at which no one was home, a woman phoned for deputy assistance. Signs of forced entry were evident, and a burglary report was filed.
*Broken off at the base, a “Stop” sign was down on Laurel Road at Redwood Hwy.
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