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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, Dec. 27
*Located on Naue Way, Robert Lewis Pendleton, 31, subsequently was lodged in Josephine County Jail on warrants charging failure to appear (FTA) on charges of first-degree burglary, unauthorized use of a vehicle (UUV), second-degree criminal mischief, and first-degree aggravated theft; attempting to elude a police officer; FTA on charges of second-degree theft and assault in the fourth degree; and parole violation.
*Sometime the week prior, according to a complaint, entry was made to a locked residence in the 3000 block of Rockydale Road with plumbing fixtures damaged, a fire lit, and footprints and beer bottles left behind.
*Robbie’s Auto Care Center reported theft of a two-wheel, enclosed U-Haul trailer.
*Flooded roadways in several Illinois Valley locations were reported to the county public works command center.
*Some cretin slashed a screen and porch chair cushions, and threw mud on the wall of a residence on White Oak Drive, a caller said.
Wednesday, Dec. 28
*On Lakeshore Drive, a gate valued at $700 had been smashed and access gained to the property, it was reported.
*Although an O’Brien mother reported at 4:14 p.m. that her 16-year-old was beating up the 13-year-old and was generally out of control, the deputy counseled the teen-ager about her behavior and advised mom of her options.
*Her ex-husband recently got a credit card issued with her name on it, a woman said, and she wanted law enforcement officers to inquire into his financial activities.
*Two young men were reportedly fighting in front of the Cave Junction 76 gas station around 9:30 p.m., and they refused to leave when asked.
Thursday, Dec. 29
*Following a 1:30 a.m. report of a man “tearing up a residence” in the 23000 block of Redwood Hwy., Blayde Nash MacNeur, 48, was lodged in county jail, charged with five counts each of domestic menacing and unlawful use of a weapon.
*On White Oak Drive a resident reported obscenities scrawled on an outside door.
*Kevin Eugene Modrich, 47, was cited on a charge of driving with a suspended license (DWS).
*At the Illinois Valley Substation a man reported the theft of a utility trailer and some $2,000 worth of sheet metal from a Caves Hwy. site.
*John Michael Hergenrether, 30, was lodged in county jail on warrants from Grants Pass charging FTA on original charges of possession of a precursor chemical and possession of a controlled substance. He also was cited on charges of DWS and driving uninsured, and his vehicle was towed.
*In the 500 block of E. River Street, someone ran a vehicle into the garage door at an empty house, causing unestimated dollar damage.
*Charged as beyond parental control, Ashley Marie Dreiling, 15, was lodged in Josephine Juvenile Justice Center in Grants Pass.
*A Honda all-terrain vehicle was taken without permission from the 7000 block of Caves Hwy., a caller said.
*Someone at the same Caves Hwy. address reported theft of a “silver pocket rocket,” but could not provide a vehicle identification number.
*Evidence of a reported fight in Downtown CJ couldn’t be found. However, an unconscious fall victim was discovered at the Junction Inn, and medical aid was dispatched.
Friday, Dec. 30
*At midnight a woman in the 24000 block of Redwood Hwy. said that her vehicle and some others had been “egged.”
*Though a deputy made an exhaustive search of the vicinity from the 3000 to 6000 block of Deer Creek Road, he was unable to find anything like the intoxicated, crying woman said by a caller to be among blackberry bushes in a ditch somewhere at 1:30 a.m.
*Calling from a market at 3 a.m. because thieves had taken her phones, she said, a Caves Hwy. resident described how the crooks had entered via a laundry-room window and taken “some things,” leaving footprints inside.
*In the 6000 block of Rockydale Road at 9 a.m. a downed tree made travel close to impossible, a caller stated. County public works was advised.
*Missing for weeks, a dog was said to have been located on a gravel bar in Sucker Creek some 30 feet from shore. The situation was referred to Animal Control.
*Numerous reports of flooded roadways were referred to county public works.
*A Selma man said that his debit card number had been used in Russia without his permission.
*An O’Brien woman was told that although the county had no “forced evacuations” in place at this time, if she felt she needed to leave her home because flood water was pouring though it, then she should do so. She was also advised that “emergency services is monitoring the situation.”
*Thieves took a games system, games, DVDs and prescription medications from a home on Draper Valley Road, having entered the locked residence through a broken window.
*Attempting to police Illinois River “Forks” State Park, a deputy remarked on “2- to 3-feet of water” on the parking area at 11:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 31
*Highly agitated, hostile and difficult to understand (possibly intoxicated), a man phoned from Downtown CJ at 2:43 a.m. and said something like, “You need to get a police officer here,” but would not describe the nature of the problem and then hung up.
*At 11:14 a.m. California Highway Patrol (CHP) asked that a sign be placed on Happy Camp Road advising that it is closed due to snow. CHP was at that time aware of several vehicles stuck “up there” on the California side of the border. When advised of the request, JoCo Public Works stated that it was of “low priority” for them.
*Some 15 times today, said a man on Lakeshore Drive, another person has phoned to harass him, and he wanted her contacted. The other person denied such harassment, complaining that the first caller did it. Both agreed to stop phoning each other in the matter of monies owed.
*Someone was overheard talking about cutting down the big, decorated tree on the vacant lot between Junction Inn and Shop Smart. That bit of information was logged for patrol deputies.
*High-powered rifle shots were of concern to a caller from the 28000 block of Redwood Hwy. at 8 p.m.
*Reckless youths in a primer-gray Camaro or TransAm had been drag racing up and down Old Redwood Hwy. all day long, a caller said.
*From the intersection of Westside Road and Redwood Hwy. at 9 p.m., sounds of some 10 to 12 youths fighting could be heard, a caller stated.
Sunday, Jan. 1
*Large quantities of loud fireworks in the vicinity of Warren Road threatened to spook his cattle, a man said at 12:30 a.m.
*A mother and son were fighting on Taurus Lane, it was reported at 2 a.m. Both were contacted, and it was ascertained to be “more like harassment.”
*With a photograph of the driver and license plate of the pickup truck which had repeatedly smashed through a gate to a property on French Peak Road, a deputy arrested Jeremy D. Newsome, 29, on charges of first-degree criminal mischief, two counts of failure to leave name at scene of an accident, second-degree theft, and driving uninsured.
*Profanities were carved into his back door, a man on White Oak Drive noted on leaving his house this morning.
*Somebody ran into her car while it was parked on a driveway in the 1000 block of Deer Creek Road, causing damage to the trunk and passenger-side tail-lights, a woman said, noting that red paint transferred from the offending vehicle.
*On Caves Hwy. a woman said that her estranged husband, in violation of a restraining order, entered her locked home when she was not there, and made phone calls.
Monday, Jan. 2
*At 12:36 a.m. a deputy noted a “Stop” sign and post pulled out of the ground on S. Sawyer Avenue at Schumacher Street.
*Two minutes later, the deputy was attempting to overtake two young men in dark clothing on bicycles, but they eluded him between River and Lister streets.
*Louise A. McNeela, 39, was cited on a charge of having no operator’s permit, and warned for failure to use a turn signal, failure to change her address with DMV and unlawfully tinted windows in the 1000 block of Laurel Road at 1:10 a.m.
*Perhaps late for tee time, a small brown dog was seen running in northbound traffic just south of I.V. Laurel Pines Golf Course at 12:10 p.m.
*For the second time in the past two months, said a man on Deer Creek Road, his mailbox has been “destroyed.”
*A man on White Oak Drive reported frequently seeing a vehicle being driven around the area, and he thought that the occupants might be casing the neighborhood.
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