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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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Wednesday, Feb. 1
*Throughout the valley early this morning, a deputy patrolled various areas checking for evil-doers.
*In the 7000 block of Takilma Road a blown-down tree was blocking one traffic lane at 5 a.m.
*Apparently drinking a beer, a transient man was found seated at the back doorway of a business on S. Kerby Avenue at 8 a.m.
*“Grungy-looking” adults were said to be allowing small children to run into traffic on Lakeshore Drive, an anonymous woman reported.
*Scott Allan Neely, 37, was lodged in Josephine County Jail on a Coos County warrant charging two counts of first-degree assault, and one of second-degree assault.
*Near a white car on the side of Rockydale Road at 1 p.m., a man was said to be beating a woman. However, the couple had boogied when deputies arrived.
*A resident on Caves Avenue filed a fraud report.
*On N. Old Stage Road a resident reported theft from her mailbox.
*Continuing problems with threatening letters from the neighbor across a creek was reported by a Caves Hwy resident.
*Following a motion-detection alarm at Evergreen Elementary School, the responding deputy determined that a school function was in progress.
*Investigating the report of a yelling-and-screaming match at a residence in a Kerby neighborhood, during which the combatants made threats to kill one another, a deputy served Leonard B Whittaker, 31, with a Douglas County warrant citing him to appear on charges of allowing a dog to run at large, and “dog trespass.”
Thursday, Feb. 2
*In the 24000 block of Redwood Hwy. a teen-age boy wearing a blue coat and carrying a rifle was seen running after a school bus with the rifle at 9 a.m.
*Some $25 worth of gasoline was reported stolen from a pickup truck on Sherwood Avenue.
*On Pine Cone Drive a woman complained of an angry message left on her telephone answering machine by another woman whom she believes to be “extremely irrational.”
*Valued at $450, a digital camera was reported stolen from the office at Old Stage Mini Storage.
*An employee of the Selma Post Office reported having been harassed by a man who made threats against her.
*In Selma a woman reported that two youngsters shot paintball pellets at her vehicle.
*After an intoxicated man on Norman Road reported having been assaulted by his nephew and his nephew’s girlfriend, Kristen Michael Allen Tice, 28, was arrested on California-issued warrants charging parole violation and stolen vehicle.
*On S. Caves Avenue a group of transients and a pickup truck filled with young people had been hanging out and making themselves unwelcome for almost three hours.
*Served with a warrant charging failure to appear on an original charge of third-degree theft, Russell Richard Brummett, 35, was cited to appear.
*An unoccupied vehicle on the side of Laurel Road was construed as a hazard and towed.
*Though a man at Selma Select Market said someone had thrown a beer bottle at him, a deputy determined that no crime had been committed.
*Speeding and weaving “all over the road,” a black sedan was seen northbound on Redwood Hwy. from Lakeshore Drive at 5:30 p.m.
*Nothing untoward was discovered, but two callers reported some form of physical disturbance on June Drive at 6:42 p.m.
*Intoxicated or possibly under the influence of something, a 20-odd-year-old man was attempting to flag down a car on Redwood Hwy. at Hogue Drive just before 9 p.m.
*Very sick, but not vomiting after having taken drugs, a man approached a residence on Hogue Drive and asked that someone summon an ambulance.
*Vehicles not belonging to him were parked on his driveway, said a man on Norman Drive, but they left before a deputy responded.
*Isaac Sawall, 17, was taken to Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass on a peace officer’s mental hold.
Friday, Feb. 3
*At 4:19 a.m. a White Schoolhouse Road resident reported chasing away a man who had attempted to steal his car.
*A man on Crooks Creek Road reported constant harassment from his near neighbors.
*Sometime during the past few days a cabin on Naue Way was entered and belongings removed without permission, according to a complainant.
*Jeffrey J. Barry, 49, was arrested on a charge of unlawfully entering a motor vehicle after he was identified by a man who’d chased him away from his car that morning.
*Charles M. Praszek, 32, was cited on a charge of parking in a handicapped zone without a placard at Shop Smart Food Warehouse at 2:20 p.m.
*Some people on Rockydale Road might have his stolen dog, a man said, and he needed deputy assistance to sort it out.
*An incident, which hinged upon unclaimed goats and a $300 refund, was causing a disruption at the Cave Junction Goodwill store at 4:30 p.m., and would have to resolved in small claims court.
*The instigator of a fight during an IVHS basketball game was still hanging around, the vice principal reported, and he wanted a deputy to warn the guy.
*“Local kids” in a gray pickup truck knocked a man down during a physical disturbance near Speedy Mart at 9 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4
*Following a complaint of an intoxicated disturbance on W. Lister Street, David James Waddell, 23, was cited to appear on a charge of failure to appear (FTA) on a charge of driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUII).
*Torah Leigh Elliott, 26, was cited on charges of driving without an operator’s permit and driving uninsured on Caves Hwy at Caves Avenue at 2:20 a.m. Warnings for failure to obey a traffic control device and failure to signal a turn were also given.
*Said to have a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08, Lisa Gay Shaffer, 40, was cited on a charge of DUII, as well as charges of riving uninsured and driving while suspended. The vehicle was towed.
*No good reason could be unearthed for a motion detection alarm at BiMor Tobacco Outlet at 5:16 a.m.
*Window and door glass were broken out at I.V. Video and Dave’s Perfect Pizza overnight.
*Four windows were broken at the Cowboy Coffee stand in Selma, the owner said. Some $400 damage was reported.
*On Westside Road a large madrone tree was blocking one lane of travel at 9 a.m.
*A small quantity of marijuana and a syringe were discovered shoved into the toilet paper holder in the men’s restroom at a Cave Junction business.
*At 10:30 a.m. a Downtown Cave Junction business owner came upon people loitering around her doorway drinking beer, and she wanted them to be told to leave.
*“Not causing a problem or being disorderly,” an intoxicated man had nevertheless been asked several times to leave the CJ 76 gas station, and he would not.
*Having sold a car to his former roommates, who allegedly left town without paying half the money owed him, a man on Taurus Lane wanted to know his options.
*An intoxicated man and woman were reportedly fighting near the CJ 76 gas station at 10:14 p.m. They left in separate directions.
*The glow of cigarettes and smell of tobacco smoke alerted a man on Queen of Bronze Drive that someone might be on his property, he said at 11:36 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 5
*A 13-year-old girl was reported as a runaway at 1:30 a.m.
*Christopher Lee Hartman, 26, was said to have a BAC of .21 when he was cited on a charge of DUII. He was also warned about speeding and failure to drive on a lane.
*His two partners in crime skedaddled when a deputy showed up, but, with a deputy’s supervision, a 19-year-old man cooperatively removed the sandbags, cones and barrels they’d placed in the middle of Redwood Hwy. at 3 a.m.
*Not cooperative and “immature,” Mikel Jack Doak, 16, was arrested under two warrants charging probation violation. He was also cited on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal mischief and lodged in the Juvenile Justice Center in Grants Pass.
*On Naue Way a man said that his wife was acting bizarrely and had made unspecific threats against him.
*While emergency personnel were on a power line road near Rough & Ready Creek investigating a kayaker’s death, a stolen vehicle was discovered.
*A woman, 29, was taken for evaluation to Three Rivers Community Hospital on a peace officer’s mental hold.
Monday, Feb. 6
*A student at IVHS was discovered with a pellet gun, and he was to be released to his parents.
*In Selma, a woman suspected her ex-husband of stealing items from a shed.
*First- and second-degree burglary and second-degree theft were reported at a Happy Camp Road residence, where it appeared that the thieves had stacked some items so they could get them later.
*Although a tenant contended that the landlord had entered a Happy Camp Road residence without giving 24-hour notice, and burned the tenant’s belongings, the landlord insisted that the tenant moved, leaving items behind. It was determined to be a civil matter.
Tuesday, Feb. 7
*Joshua Steven Ware, 23, was arrested on a warrant charging FTA on an original possession of a controlled substance charge after a deputy responded to Illinois River “Forks” State Park on a report of people urinating in public.
*A gray Oldsmobile, left unlocked on the parking lot at Art’s Red Garter contained a purse and a number of “girl’s” items -- a hair dryer, make-up, and a curling iron -- but the vehicle had no registered owner.
*Richard Mayfield, 15, was taken into custody on a charge of being beyond parental control.
*On Deer Creek Road a man reported theft of two chainsaws from a locked trailer at a construction site.
*“Extremely loud music” from his neighbor’s place was vibrating his walls, a man on Westside Road said at 6 p.m.
*Ninety minutes later, very loud music was reported still sounding on Westside Road.
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