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Tales from the Police Blotter
(Editor’s Note: The “Noose” was unable to obtain patrol logs from the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office for this issue. Therefore, we offer our own version, no item of which should be viewed as fact or truth in any way.)
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Thursday, April 6
*Although a man claimed to have found his stolen power tool at a shop, and the shop owner alleged that the complainant’s ex-roommate was the person who brought the item, the situation was termed “very confused,” and the parties were to recontact the sheriff’s office after they cleared it up.
*Just after 1 p.m. a driver on Redwood Hwy. at Hogue Drive was warned for failure to maintain a lane of travel.
*In the 3000 block of Eight Dollar Mountain Road at 2 p.m., Michael Jerome Christophersen, 39, was cited on a federal charge of open container of alcohol; and charges of driving with a revoked license and driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUII), which were referred to the district attorney. He also was warned for failure to wear a seatbelt. His passengers, Kimberly Ann Peterson, 39, and Michael Scott Wood, 16, were each cited on a federal open container charge. Wood was lodged in the Juvenile Justice Center in Grants Pass.
*When notified that for a “nominal” $249 fee she would be eligible for a $5,000 dollar grant, a savvy I.V. resident refused to provide her “foreign” accented caller with bank information, and instead phoned the sheriff’s office at 5:30 p.m.
*An “extremely intoxicated” Otis Jones, 52, was cited on three counts of unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle and three counts of second-degree criminal mischief after he was found in a car at Valley Muffler & Hitch on E. Watkins Street at quarter to 8 p.m. and, when removed from the vehicle, entering another and refusing leave.
*In the 24000 block of Redwood Hwy. a woman said that a man had been calling her names, and also had tried to threaten her with a knife, but he was too intoxicated to pick it up. He left prior to a deputy’s arrival, and the complainant no longer needed aid.
*At 10:30 p.m. a resident on S. Junction Avenue said that a tall, intoxicated man wearing a black jacket and pushing a bicycle was hanging out on his front porch. A deputy warned the man about disorderly conduct, and threatened him with jail if he did not head home or “find more appropriate accommodation for the night.”
*In the 300 block of Caves Avenue, a woman spotted a prowler dressed in black with a stocking cap who ducked behind her husband's truck when the light came on. However, it was actually her husband.
Friday, April 7
*Marshall Brodie Elliott, 19, was cited on charges of speeding (81 in a 55 mph zone), and driving with a suspended license (DWS), on Redwood Hwy. at Lakeshore Drive at 3:50 a.m.
*An unknown quantity of gasoline was taken from a vehicle at Selmac Auto Service, a caller reported.
*Two young “men” had been throwing rocks at the squirrels in her yard, said a woman on S. Kerby Avenue, and just before she phoned the cops, she told them to stop it and leave.
*An eyewitness reported that a man in the 27000 block of Redwood Hwy. at 2:17 p.m. was opening all the mailboxes.
*Concerned that whatever the discovered five-gallon, glass jar thing with a stopper and plastic tubing she found in her 30-year-old daughter’s bedroom might be illegal, a woman asked a deputy to come examine what turned out to be equipment for home-brewing beer.
*A “bunch” of wood debris on Redwood Hwy. near Kerbyville Museum History Center gave a driver a fright at 8:45 p.m.
Saturday, April 8
*An uprooted “Stop” sign was discovered on S. Junction Avenue at Caves Hwy. at 12:04 a.m.
*After a pursuit which approached speeds of 100 mph, the driver of a stolen motorcycle wrecked it on Rockydale Road just before 2 a.m. The driver fled on foot and eluded capture.
*David M. Odom, 63, was cited on a charge of speeding (68 in a 45 mph zone) on Redwood Hwy. in CJ at 3:10 a.m.
*Thanh V. Nguyen, 45, was cited on a charge of speeding (84 in a 55 mph zone) on Redwood Hwy. in Selma at 4:!8 a.m.
* Fortunately, nothing hazardous was located, “just a meth lab dump site,” about one-third of a mile from Redwood Hwy. on Briggs Valley Road. An empty lye can, stained tubing, alcohol bottles and other assorted trash were disposed of.
*In a civil dispute regarding property lines and cut trees, a Three Mill Road resident was advised of his options.
*Though they had been previous warned regarding this behavior, young adults from nearby were riding an ATV on his property, said a man on Deer Creek Road.
*In the 24000 block of Redwood Hwy. just after 5 p.m., a recently evicted tenant had returned with an aggressive dog, and was trying to start a fight and causing problems.
*When contacted by the pastor, a young man in a black hooded sweatshirt, who’d entered Fountain of Life Assembly of God church through a window, said he was trying to get warm, and then ran off toward Jubilee Park, leaving behind a backpack full of church sound equipment.
*On Pinecone Drive, a woman reported a shepherd-mix dog was chasing her goats, and she could not locate its owner. She was advised of her options.
*Michael Rupam Rusich, 55, was cited on a charge of possession of a controlled substance (PCS) at Hogue Meadows on Takilma Road at 7 p.m.
*An allegedly intoxicated bald man who drove off in a black Toyota 4-Runner was said to have brandished a gun at several people in front of Speedy Mart at 7:30 p.m.
*Just before 10 p.m. an anonymous caller reported drag racing in the vicinity of E. River Street and Old Stage Road.
Monday, April 10
*Transients were said to be camping on a Rough & Ready Creek Road property, and had also been caught trespassing at the neighbor’s place, said the neighbor.
*A Caves Avenue resident reported the theft of copper-red colored 1972 Honda Enduro motorcycle.
*Robert O. Yankee, 57, was cited on a charge of failure to provide proof of insurance following a traffic stop in Downtown Cave Junction.
*At 2:30 p.m. Animal Control was notified of a horse running loose on Caves Hwy. near White Schoolhouse Road.
*David J. Eastford, 42, was cited on charges of DWS and driving uninsured on N. Redwood Hwy. at Lister Street at 3:30 p.m. His vehicle was impounded.
Tuesday, April 11
*An ambulance driver reported a possibly intoxicated driver on Redwood Hwy. at 2:30 a.m. and made note of the Kerby neighborhood into which the driver turned.
*At 5 a.m. a man phoned to complain about large trucks which, when traveling on Rockydale Road, loudly employed their jake brakes.
*After striking a deer at 6:30 a.m. on Rockydale Road near Martin Road, a driver was concerned that, either the carcass or her car, was in the middle of the road and it was a “definite traffic hazard.”
*Awakened by barking dogs, a man on Idlewild Drive found a young woman in a black hooded sweatshirt in his back yard who claimed to be looking for a dog. His neighbor advised him there was a young man in the area, dressed similarly, who claimed to need gas. The complainant later discovered two fuel cans missing from his shed.
*Four men were loitering near the stage at Jubilee Park, consuming alcohol, an anonymous caller said at 9:34 a.m.
*A bearded man with long hair was said to be running back and forth in the roadway between E. River and Laurel Road on Old Stage Road, harassing people, throwing rocks, and flipping people off.
*On Hogue Drive, a man said that the neighboring residence, which was supposed to be vacant, had just been broken into at 4:18 p.m. He said the place had been ransacked, but a deputy determined that the place was in the process of being torn down.
*In the 6000 block of Caves Hwy. a woman reported theft of several items from a locked residence, and she believed she had suspect information.
*On White Oak Drive a motor home, which belonged to a man who had been making a nuisance of himself in the neighborhood, was towed from the cul-de-sac in which it had been hazardously parked.
*A home in the 10000 block of Caves Hwy. was said to have been “completely ransacked” by thieves who smashed a padlock. Taken were two guns and two paintball guns, but the resident was unable to determine, due to the condition of the house, what else might have been taken.
*Leaving Speedy Mart around 9 p.m., a man discovered that his black pickup truck, containing his wallet, keys, dinner and trade tools, was stolen.
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