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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, Sept. 12
*On N. Junction Avenue around 5:35 p.m., a youngster playing with a telephone called 911. A deputy arrived, much to the apparent surprise of the adults at the residence, who were outside and who reported no problem.
*A man on Crooks Creek Road reported a missing .22-caliber firearm.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
*Just before 1 a.m. it was reported that a man had been stabbed in his abdomen at a Sawyer Avenue residence.
*On W. Lister Street the owner of a vacant building said that someone had been living there without permission. Two backpacks discovered behind the building were seized. One individual who fit a suspect description was warned about criminal trespassing.
*Contacted in the 300 block of S. Redwood Hwy. at quarter to 11 a.m., Gary M. Rodrigues, 49, was cited on warrants charging failure to appear (FTA) on charges of first- and second-degree criminal trespass, disorderly conduct in the second-degree, and offensive littering.
*After he was advised of a complaint against him for trespassing at a business on Caves Avenue, and warned regarding that offense, a tall man in a baseball cap became “hostile” toward the responding officer, and “verbally threatened to kill (the deputy).”
*Contacted once again in the 200 block of W. Lister Street at a building from which he’d been removed for trespassing, Leslie Roy Jansson, 49, was cited to appear on a charge of second-degree criminal trespass.
*Stanley E. Hicks, 46, was arrested on a probation detainer and transported to county jail.
*An individual who “appeared to be extremely strung out on drugs,” was being “very belligerent” to staff at the Junction Inn.
*Raymond Anthony Moore, 18, was cited on a charge of failure to yield following a two-vehicle MVA in the 1000 block of Caves Hwy. at 4:45 p.m.
*In Cave Junction a woman reported theft of a box of checks from her unlocked residence.
Thursday, Sept. 14
*Gary M. Rodrigues, 49, was cited on a charge of second-degree criminal trespass in the 100 block of Caves Avenue.
*At the request of management, a man was removed from a property adjacent to the Junction Inn.
*The driver of a “very dirty” small car had been driving recklessly on Redwood Hwy. coming into the north side of Cave Junction, another driver reported.
*Tony A. Derda, 17,was cited on a charge of speeding on Old Stage Road at E. River Street at 4 p.m.
*Just before 8 p.m. an intoxicated driver was seen leaving Jubilee Park in a white, four-door vehicle.
Friday, Sept. 15
*On W. Lister Street, two neighbors complained that a third was making all manner of loud clapping and banging noises, pounding on walls and the like. She denied it, but the others were told to phone the sheriff’s office if the matter was an emergency.
*Six mature marijuana plants were stolen overnight from the property of a medical cannabis card holder on Lakeshore Drive.
*Someone has stolen or sold her belongings from a home on Dick George Road, a woman said, and someone else’s furniture is there, which shouldn’t be.
*An employee with Jerry’s Towing said that someone was living in a camper in their impound yard without permission.
*An apartment manager in the 500 block of S. Redwood Hwy. said that a former tenant had been leaving harassing phone messages.
*On W. River Street at Sawyer Avenue at 9:41 p.m., a man wearing all black with a white baseball cap was said to be acting suspiciously, especially when he ducked into some bushes to avoid being seen.
Saturday, Sept. 16
*Her relative’s former boss was harassing her, said a Selma woman, who wanted her claim noted for information.
*Two pickup trucks had been causing damage in the creek bed on her property, according to a Deer Creek Road resident.
*Selma residents with wandering goats accused their neighbors of having stolen them. However, Animal Control had the critters.
*The male half of an alcohol-fueled disturbance on Caves Avenue opted to sleep in a vehicle overnight.
Sunday, Sept. 17
*A friend of the owner of a black-and-tan dog was phoned about coming to retrieve the animal that had been hanging around Lake Selmac for a couple of days.
*A Holland Loop man discovered a stock-pile of rat-poison pellets in his barbecue grill, and he suspected someone was trying to poison him. However, the poison may have been put there by mice, which he said are nesting in his barbecue pit.
*Someone swiped a battery from a vehicle parked in a garage in the 5000 block of Takilma Road overnight.
*A landlord/tenant dispute was reported on Krauss Lane.
*Robert J. Scarlett, 56, was cited on a charge of DUII near Tannen Lake around 3:30 p.m.
*After a home was reported ransacked, many items stolen and a vehicle taken in the 5000 block of Takilma Road, a report citing incidents of first- and second-degree burglary, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle (UUMV) and second-degree criminal mischief was filed.
*Following a physical disturbance in the 200 block of Caves Avenue at quarter to 6 p.m. the man whom most witnesses agreed to be the aggressor took a blow to the temple, rendering him unconscious for a time. The other man Robert L. Stephens, 28, was cited on an warrant charging failure to appear on a DUII charge. Neither party chose to press charges regarding the fight.
Monday, Sept. 18
*Yelling and screaming from behind a fence seemed to indicate to a concerned caller a fight between a father and son on W. Watkins Street at 12:30 a.m.
*Someone knocked on his door shortly before 1 a.m., said a man on S. Caves Avenue.
*Unaware, perhaps, of just how astonishingly loud his surround-sound system was, a man on Honeybee Lane agreed to reduce the TV volume after a neighbor complained of the noise at 2:30 a.m.
*Some took a 15-foot, steel sign pole from in front of Subway. The owner noted that the sign for the pole had been taken without permission the week before.
*Behind King’s Chinese Restaurant a lock was found to have been broken from a shed, but it was being taken care of. Beer-swilling loiterers loomed large as likely looters, but that was uncertain.
*A 1-year-old child was playing with a telephone until mother took it away at 11:30 a.m.
*Two men fired from their positions as care-givers were accused by an Adult Protective Services worker of embezzling a Cave Junction woman’s money to purchase a motor home. And attempting to take other property, before they were served with restraining orders at 12:35 p.m.
*Someone used her name to obtain service from Pacific Power, said a woman in CJ.
*A ride home was secured for a highly intoxicated subject “down” on the parking lot at CJ 76 gas station at 7 p.m.
*A 16-year-old person was warned against telephonic harassment of another student.
*At 10 p.m. an employee of Z Coffee was reported to have been harassed by three young people.
Tuesday, Sept. 19
*Overnight theft of $75 worth of gasoline was reported by a man on Honeybee Lane.
*A deputy’s business card was left at a motor home parked on a vacant lot on Caves Hwy. where it seemed that someone was in violation of a city no-camping ordinance.
*A highly intoxicated man was harassing customers outside My Brother’s Pub, attempting to pick fights, two callers said. He agreed to leave the area.
*Following a fist fight in Downtown CJ around 5:30 p.m., Jade C. Yandell, 16, and Richard A. Miner, 15, were each cited on charges of minor in possession of alcohol. An additional charge against Miner of fourth-degree assault was referred to the county district attorney.
Wednesday, Sept. 20
*At 10 a.m. two men were reported leaning against a pickup truck on a business parking lot drinking beer.
*Three generators valued at $600 each, and some hand tools, were taken from a locked shipping container at a construction site on Laurel Road.
*David Wayne Sheldon, 21, was arrested on a warrant charging FTA on a charge of possession of a controlled substance (PCS), methamphetamine.
*On Hummingbird Lane, a property owner said she had “a gut feeling” that three men she saw walking in the creek behind her place were “up to no good.”
*Just before 5 p.m. a swarm of bees apparently set off an intrusion alarm at Coffee Heaven.
*A 38-year-old man flagged down a passerby on Laurel Road to help him report having been assaulted by a 45-year-old man at his girlfriend’s house.
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