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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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Saturday, March 4
*Just after midnight on N. Redwood Hwy. at Lister Street, David M. Dominguez, 34, was cited on a charge of driving with a suspended license (DWS) and warned about speeding.
*Three young men ran from the vicinity of PJ’s Café, an officer noted at 12:26 a.m., but all appeared secure at the business.
*Cited to appear on charges of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Gerald B. Baty, 36, was also cited on charges of DWS and driving uninsured just after 1 a.m. in Downtown Cave Junction.
*At 2:20 a.m., a man using a public telephone at Shop Smart Food Warehouse reported that he was cold, and his home was about a mile away. He was told to start walking, as that would keep him warmer than standing there. It was later ascertained that he had gotten a ride home.
*Around 7 p.m. a driver complained that an apparently intoxicated man, wearing black leather clothing and riding his bicycle which lacked lights or reflectors, was in the middle of Holland Loop, and he was nearly struck by a car. This was noted for patrol information .
Sunday, March 5
*On Deer Creek Road, a woman said that her neighbor had posted a sign which states they will kill her for trespassing, and included “racist” remarks.
*The children must have been playing with the telephone, said a man contacted on Thompson Creek Road after an aborted 911 call.
*Last seen a week ago, a 16-year-old boy was reported as a runaway by his mother.
*When he left, mother phoned back to say, her son stole several items from the residence, including a digital camera, a compact disc and possibly some jewelry.
Monday, March 6
*Prescription medication was taken overnight from an unlocked vehicle parked at a residence on Old Stage Road, a man said.
*More prescription meds were absconded with, along with a CD player and sunglasses, from a locked vehicle on the same parking lot some time during the past two days, a man said.
*In a continuing property-line dispute on Deer Creek Road, a man said that his neighbor was tearing out the fence he’d been building, and had threatened him with death. The neighbor was gone upon a deputy’s arrival.
*On W. Stevenson Street, a young man was seen looking through several mailboxes, said a witness at 4 p.m., although it was unknown if he had taken mail.
*Sitting in a red pickup truck in front of her home, the suspected mail pilferer was said to be harassing a woman by staring at her.
*On Deer Creek Road, the fellow who earlier had been accused of tearing up a fence was claiming that the other man was in fact the trespasser.
*Rapid gunshots were noted for extra patrol in the 4000 block of Deer Creek Road at 7:20 p.m.
*Adamant that “something is wrong” with her 51-year-old boyfriend who has been missing, she said, since January, a county inmate, jailed in connection with a shooting incident late last month in O’Brien, filed a missing person report. Though it was noted that the same sort of complaint had been filed in February, it had at that time been deemed unfounded.
*A cleaning crew at Illinois Valley High School triggered a motion-detection alarm at 8:38 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7
*“Employee error” was to blame for a “massive” number of alarm signals received from Pizza Pit at quarter to 10 a.m.
*At Illinois Valley High School a young woman was advised about the nature of assault and harassment, and her incident documented for information.
*Not having seen his 50-odd-year-old tenant for one week, a man on Caves Hwy. requested that a deputy conduct a welfare check. Finding the residence “very secure,” and detecting “no odor” or other evidence of problem, the deputy advised phoning back “in a day or two” should the man not turn up.
*Sitting in front of a CJ restaurant and yelling at the customers was a “crazy” man who’d been 86’d from the place. He’d been yelling also at an employee who had asked him to leave. Soon thereafter, he left, headed toward another restaurant, presumably to yell at people there. He was contacted and warned against trespassing.
*The driver of a van which dented the door of her car while parked on a CJ parking lot “smelled of marijuana,” a woman said, and pot was also visible in the vehicle. They left the scene, headed toward Selma at around 5 p.m.
*Some 15 to 20 persons were said involved in a fist-fight on N. Hussey Avenue at River Street at 7:10 p.m.
*Having taken a wrong turn on Arrowhead Drive, some people found themselves stuck on the down-side of a steep driveway, unable to leave. Their efforts to get out were tearing up the gravel on his driveway and making holes, the property owner complained around 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8
*Clifford J. Tucker, 32, was cited on a charge of DWS and warned against speeding on Lakeshore Drive at 8:47 a.m. His vehicle was impounded.
*In the 17000 block of Redwood Hwy., a man said that his landlord, who allegedly keep explosives, had come several times to his residence without first notifying him, and had physically threatened him.
Thursday, March 9
*A county-owned vehicle was towed from a ditch on Lone Mountain Road after sliding off the road. The driver, a parole officer, did not require medical attention.
*Now more than a week since he had last seen his tenant, a landlord on Caves Hwy. insisted that entrance be made to the man’s trailer. Inside, it “appeared” that the man was dead, and medical personnel later confirmed that.
*Valued at $3, a one-year-old duck, white in color, answering to the name “Aflac,” was reported taken from its pond on Laurel Road. The owner suspected former tenants, with whose children the duck had been known to play.
*An angry man cut the power to a cabin in the 17000 block of Redwood Hwy. and pointed a gun at the resident there, a woman reported at 6:11 p.m.
*Told several times not to return, a 20-or-so-year-old man keeps coming around and harassing her, said a woman on W. Stevenson Street.
Friday, March 10
*In the 1500 block of Kerby Mainline, someone cut a locked gate and entered a locked cabin on the property. A vehicle was left behind. The keys, which were found in the vehicle, were given to the sheriff’s office.
*On Lakeshore Drive, a man reported that snow thrown by a plow struck him in the face and knocked his little girl down. He wanted to file assault charges against the driver of the county-owned snowplow, who didn’t slow down as he drove past.
*A Selma man reported the theft of a nickel-plated, .22-caliber pistol from his residence.
*On Boundry Lane, a man claimed that a male caller, identifying himself as the ex-boyfriend of the complainant’s current girlfriend, said that he was on his way over to kill the woman. It was not known who this person was or where he was calling from.
*Jacqueline L. Landers, 48, was cited on charges of speeding and failure to carry insurance near the I.V. Visitor Center at 9:17 p.m.
*Due to darkness, no description was available, but a resident could hear a vehicle speeding up and down Fir Drive at 10:41 p.m.
Sunday, March 11
*A recently evicted tenant on W. Stevenson Street was trespassing again, this time unloading some items from his car, a woman reported at 3 p.m.
*Robert James Myers, 35, was cited on a charge of second-degree criminal trespass after he was reported panhandling in front of a Downtown CJ business.
*Sometime during the past week, gate locks were cut to gain access to a home which was subsequently “trashed,” and items taken, said the Greenview Drive home owner.
Monday, March 12
*A caller said that some people near the liquor store in Cave Junction were drinking and passing around an infant in a pink blanket. The caller was concerned for the child’s welfare.
*At around 2 p.m., a man driving a white Toyota pickup truck was seen removing items from the Kerby Transfer Station, although it was unknown what those items were.
*Apparently very intoxicated, a transient was said to have come onto the front porch of a residence on Junction Avenue to sift through the ashtray there. He did not try to enter the residence and left when told.
*Within an hour after his jacket, containing a debit card, credit cards and ID, had been stolen from a CJ lounge, a man said that his bank informed him the thieves were already using the cards.
Tuesday, March 13
*Logs unavailable.
Wednesday, March 14
*“Transients” hanging out in the 100 block of S. Redwood Hwy. were told to move on and were “trespassed” from the grounds of the county building at 1 p.m.
*Assistance was given a fawn whose leg had become entangled in a fence in the 2000 block of Holland Loop. After its release, the critter bounded off into the woods, belaying fears that it would have to be dispatched.
*Rodney L. Flansburg, 31, was cited on a charge of lack of insurance following a motor vehicle accident on Redwood Hwy. in Downtown CJ at 5:30 p.m.
*Two white, clean, dry pillows were found soon after they were left in a driveway covered with snow in the 31000 block of Redwood Hwy. The caller said that he would dispose of them.
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