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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, May 9*Someone’s sister was said to be drunk, blocking a driveway, and then walking around talking to herself in Kerby at 5:42 p.m. She drove away and was said to be “very drunk and mad.”
*A runaway girl returned to Waldo Road.
*Burglary in the 14000 block of Takilma Road was reported.
*A welfare check was requested for a man in rural CJ. He was said to be manic and recently purchased bullets, the caller said.
*Harassment was reported in the 4600 block of Takilma Road.
Wednesday, May 10
*Illinois River “Forks” State Park was checked at 12:45 a.m.
*Lorna Byrne Middle School environs were checked at 12:55 a.m.
*Jubilee Park was checked at 1:04 a.m.
*A suspected suspended driver was contacted in Downtown CJ at 1:30 a.m.
*An intoxicated, stumbling man was reported in the 1400 block of Caves Hwy. at 2:28 a.m.
*A PI working on Rockydale Road was thought by a resident to be spying on his children.
*A man, 42, was warned about speeding on Redwood Hwy. in Selma.
*A “suspicious” pickup truck that had been burned, stripped and vandalized was reported 6 miles out Thompson Creek Road.
*An abandoned pickup truck without an engine was reported on Deer Creek Road.
*Described as “a mental subject,” a man in Selma was causing concern.
*Following a medical call from Selma about a man who took a bunch of pills and was passed out, it was determined that he was “playing games.”
*In CJ a woman was irate about a man who
doesn’t obey a “Stop” sign.*Theft of a dog was reported on Pinewood Way.
*After his son was punched in the back of his head by a fellow student at LBMS, the father wasn’t satisfied with the school response, although the other boy was suspended until the last week of classes.
*On N. Old Stage Road an intoxicated pedestrian was yelling at passersby, and threw his dog onto the street, then screamed at it.
*On E. River Street a repo man did his thing.
*About 10 people were said to be smoking marijuana and being otherwise intoxicated in Jubilee Park, causing problems for Little League. The complainant said “nothing is ever done” about the park problems.
Thursday, May 11
*Early this morning in the 100 block of N. Redwood Hwy., thieves pried open her vehicle’s gas cap and siphoned off approximately two gallons of fuel, a caller reported at 9:36 a.m.
*Warned for speeding in the 25000 block of Redwood Hwy., Christine A. Griggs, 43, was cited to appear on four charges of second-degree theft. She was also cited on a charge of driving with a suspended license (DWS), and her vehicle towed.
*At 10:15 a.m., an anonymous caller suggested a deputy “cruise through” a Kerby neighborhood.
*Having dropped the telephone, which “accidentally” dialed 911, a Hamilton Avenue resident confirmed that everything was all right.
*On Redwood Hwy. at Rockydale Road a driver whose identify was unclear was cited on charges of driving while suspended (DWS) and lack of insurance. His vehicle was impounded.
*Roy E. McLaughlin, 48, was cited on charges of DWS and lack of insurance. He was also warned about speeding and failure to use a seat belt.
*Billie Mack Jones, 55, was cited on a misdemeanor charge of DWS. His vehicle was impounded.
*Tired of the number of cars his brother has stored at his Norman Road residence, a man took a splitting maul to one of them, damaging it, he said. Although the brother did not want to press charges, the incident was logged.
*A caller thought that a dog on Watkins Street was being neglected, as it was skinny and flea-bitten. A county animal control officer was notified.
*Harvey Herbert Peters, 46, was cited on a charge of DWS and warned for failure to wear a seat belt on Thompson Creek Road at Lakeshore Drive at 6 p.m.
*A wallet containing $100 was returned to its owner after it was located at Ray’s Food Place in Selma.
*Loud music “which never stops playing over loudspeakers” was a continuing source of consternation for one neighbor, who complained at 7:15 p.m. from the 27000 block of Redwood Hwy.
*“A bunch of transients” in a beat-up, brown station wagon sped through a parking lot on Schumacher Street and collided with a trash dumpster, a caller reported at 8 p.m.
*One subject fled from a traffic stop in Selma at 12 minutes past 8 p.m. A passenger was detained, and charges of misdemeanor eluding, and possession of controlled substances (PCS), involving mushrooms and methamphetamine, were going to be leveled.
*Though a gas station attendant was concerned about a woman who drove off in her minivan without paying for fuel, the customer soon returned to pay.
Friday, May 12
*Just before 4 a.m. loud pounding noises were reported in the vicinity of Sawyer Avenue and Schumacher Street, but nothing suspicious was discovered, and all was said quiet when a deputy checked the area.
*Sometime early this morning a sledgehammer-wielding fool smashed part of a concrete-brick wall in a car-wash bay at CJ 76 gas station, breaking into a cashbox containing some $200 in quarters. Reported damage to the wall and box was estimated at $1,000. For lack of suspect information, the investigation was discontinued.
*Locking gas caps were broken off and fuel siphoned from two minbuses at Illinois Valley Head Start, it was noted shortly after 8 a.m.
*Fishing gear with a reported value of $3,000 was said to have been taken from a boat in an unlocked shed, a Caves Hwy. resident complained.
*At 9:15 a.m. a reportedly intoxicated woman rammed a Laurel Pines/I.V. Golf Course fence, knocking it down and causing an estimated $500 damage. The driver left without identifying herself.
*A silver Subaru was reported stolen from a locked parking lot at Evergreen Elementary School.
*From the 2000 block of Caves Hwy. a 1986 Chevy Suburban was reported stolen.
*A woman phoned via cell to claim that she’d been kidnapped by a man who’d stopped at Joe’s Market to buy cigarettes. When the vehicle was later pulled over on Redwood Hwy. at Elliott Creek Road, the woman stated that she was not, in fact, being kidnapped, and an initiating-a-false-report report was referred.
*“Words were exchanged, but no crime” committed in a Kerby neighborhood when a former tenant, who was said to be intoxicated, came to visit family.
*OSP was advised that the driver of a blue Ford passenger car was “swerving all over the road” in the 24000 block of Redwood Hwy. and that “something” was being passed between the driver and passenger.
Saturday, May 13
*An accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound was reported to have occurred in the 700 block of Naue Way, and this information was logged.
*With a reported BAC of 0.12, Ryan Asa Defenbach, 22, was cited on charges of DWS and DUII following a single-vehicle accident on Redwood Hwy. near O’Brien at 4:47 p.m.
*After complaining that his brother had punched him in one eye, Wilmer Randall Yost, 50, was arrested at Lake Selmac and lodged in Josephine County Jail on a supervisory authority warrant order of detention, a felony charge of driving with a revoked license, and a charge of failure to appear (FTA).
*On Ollis Road a lawnmower was reported stolen from a pickup truck bed.
Sunday, May 14
*Threatening clerks and other shoppers, an intoxicated and combative Shop Smart Food Warehouse customer was handcuffed to an office chair and detained until a deputy arrived to escort the trespasser out.
*Jenna M. Lefner, 16, was cited on a charge of speeding in the 19000 block of Redwood Hwy. at 11:30 a.m.
*On Eight Dollar Mountain Road a driver and her two young passengers were warned about failure to wear seatbelts.
*At the green bridge on Eight Dollar Mountain Road an ATV operator was warned for driving on the pavement.
*Contacted at a campsite at the green bridge, Jeff Daniel Lauderdale, 29, was served with warrants charging FTA on original charges of possession of a controlled substance (meth), forgery and identity theft. He was taken to county jail.
*Alice May Orr, 24, was arrested on a warrant charging unlawful possession of methamphetamine and taken to county jail.
*After she gave some tailgaters in a blue-and-silver colored Ford Bronco the finger, they began chasing her, said a driver who phoned from CJ at 6:30 p.m.
*An Old Stage Road resident said that people were lurking around an empty home nearby and they shouldn’t be.
*Four persons contacted in Jubilee Park around 8 p.m. were asked to pick up their trash and move along.
*Near the 17-mile marker of Redwood Hwy. a driver was warned about offensive littering at 8:30 p.m.
Monday, May 15
*Joshua Lee Burns, 23, was lodged in county jail on warrants charging FTA on original charges of first- and third-degree theft. Furthermore he was cited on a charge of providing false information to police.
*An officer gave brief chase to a dirt bike rider in the 6000 block of Rockydale Road before losing the subject on a BLM road.
*On E. River Street a mother complained that her 12-year-old son wasn’t listening to her and was “terrorizing” his younger brother. The two were counseled regarding parenting.
*It appeared that someone was camping in a vehicle on the Sterling Savings Bank parking lot. A deputy was to check back through the evening.
*At 5:45 p.m. a woman claimed to have been assaulted at “Forks” Park by two women and three men who also, she said, slashed her tires and attempted to burn her vehicle.
*In the 27000 block of Redwood Hwy. a 61-year-old woman said that her care-giver pushed her to the ground, causing breathing difficulties. She also received a threatening message on her answering machine, she said.
*After walking her property with some people who offered to do tree work, a Honeybee Lane resident noticed that her purse was missing.
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