Police Blotter
Saturday, June 23
*At 31 past midnight a Kerby resident said that a woman punched him in front of her children. The caller seemed reluctant to specify the exact location where the incident occurred.
*Loud noises from a gathering were the topic of a complaint at Lake Selmac at 37 past midnight.
*A party of six was attacked by a group of approximately 20 persons at a campsite out Eight Dollar Road, said a complainant at 1:11 a.m. Apparently everyone had been drinking. No medical aid was requested.
*Subsequent to a call that a man was causing problems in connection with trying to “force himself on a female” at a Lake Selmac gathering, Douglas R. Singer, 44, was arrested on a charge of fourth-degree assault.
*On Illinois River Road a 19-year-old driver was warned about crossing a double yellow line.
*At Iron Ring Campground on Illinois River Road, a woman was cited federally in connection with driving with a suspended license.
*A woman claimed that she left her wallet in a restroom at Josephine County Fairgrounds, and that some $150 was missing when she went back for it.
*Approximately 10 trespassers at 1:58 p.m. wouldn’t leave Pomeroy Park Estates, where there has been vandalism, when told to do so. A deputy warned an adult about trespassing; the others with him were under age 7.
*A warning for speeding was issued a man, 21, at Sis’s Gap on Redwood Hwy.
*Possible custodial interference was described by a woman in Selma in a case said to involve a mother taking a child.
*On Garner Road a girl, 16, was “beyond parental control.” She left the house through a window; returned and hit her mother and disconnected the telephone; then fled on foot, the mother said.
Sunday, June 24
*Juvenile people were said to be igniting fireworks in the area of Schumacher Street and Hussey Avenue.
*Seven or eight boy and girl teen-agers were reported throwing large rocks at a man’s car in Downtown Cave Junction at 1:33 a.m., and then going to Jubilee Park. The man has video tape of some of them.
*Several adults were boozing it up on the parking lot at the former Select Market in CJ at 2:56 a.m.
*Gary M. Phillips, 55, turned himself in to a deputy in CJ under outside warrants that included being a fugitive.
*Someone put something at the front of a CJ restaurant.
*A woman in a car was warned about failing to yield at Jubilee Park.
*On Fernwood Drive, some dork used a shovel to break into a home. It appeared that nothing was missing.
*Harassment involving a landlord/tenant dispute was logged from Reeves Creek Road.
*Suspicious people coming and going several times were reported at a fireworks sale site in CJ. The operators felt that the place might be the object of a possible burglary.
*Extra patrol was requested at a fireworks sale site in Selma.
*Threats were said to have been received by fireworks sales clerks in CJ, and a vehicle was circling the tent.
Monday, June 25
*For some reason, an alarm sounded at 5:42 a.m. at Illinois Valley High School, but all was OK.
*Some sort of disturbance was logged from Ollis Road involving a man who said that he was “going to tear someone up.”
*Vehicular hit-and-run was the subject of a complaint from a Cave Junction bar at 9:33 a.m.
*Paint that splattered on his truck possibly occurred on purpose, said a man in Kerby, near a home being remodeled.
*“Subjects” on ATVs called a woman “several vulgar names” after she told them to leave her property in the 33000 block of Redwood Hwy.
*There was a complaint from N. Kerby Avenue that someone drives an ATV up and down the road “at all times day and night.”
*A repeat trespasser again was causing a problem in Kerby. The complainant said that the man, who might have been drunk, put his arm around him and flipped him off. He wanted the man cited.
*Approximately 40 feet of copper wire was ripped from a utility pole in the 6000 block of Takilma Road. Pacific Power is the victim.
*Following a report that beer was stolen and that someone was injured in Selma, Michael Wayne Cheek, 19, was cited and released on charges of possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana, and being a minor in possession of alcohol.
*Two young men were fighting in front of a house on Illinois River Road at 9:52 p.m. Then they drove away.
Tuesday, June 26
*“Drunk and rowdy” people caused a disturbance on N. Kerby Avenue at 3 a.m. They even broke beer bottles.
*A “meth head” with a gray beard was reported trespassing at a Selma business at 8:21 a.m.
*Loud explosions were heard in the Shadowbrook Drive area at 10:44 a.m. One resident found two homemade devices on the driveway, and wanted the incident documented in case they were related to former students.
*No injuries were reported in connection with a two-vehicle crash at Redwood Hwy. and Lister Street at 11:32 a.m.
*An Oregon State Police trooper was to send off an injured deer near milepost 17 of Redwood Hwy.
*From Lakeshore Drive came a complaint by a woman about a neighbor who, she said, made a sexual advance; and twice since has left “rude and demeaning messages” on her answering device.
*A bunch of trash at a posted meth lab, where there is a man “hostile to law enforcement,” was reported in Selma. The complainant said that a trailer is full of garbage.
*Three juvenile boys wouldn’t leave a housing development in Cave Junction, but then were run off. The owner asked for extra patrol.
*Someone said that a stolen vehicle was located at a White Schoolhouse Road residence. The vehicle had been stripped, and a suspect is in mind.
*Extra patrol was conducted at the end of Schumacher Street.
*An out-of-state woman was at a CJ service station at 11:07 p.m. “acting hysterical.” She had freckles and was upset. Women’s Crisis Center was going to help her.
