Police Blotter
From our weekly issue dated November 21, 2007
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Thursday, Nov. 8
*When a Selma resident saw his stolen pickup truck being driven on Upper Deer Creek Road, he pursued it. The man drove the driver somewhere, and then the vehicle was stolen again.
Friday, Nov. 9
*A stalking order complaint from the 7000 block of Caves Hwy. involved a landlord said to carry a gun.
Tuesday, Nov. 13
*Jubilee Park was checked by a deputy on foot at 40 past midnight.
*A break-in alarm sounded at Dr. Joe’s at 2:45 a.m. Details were unavailable.
*A girl, 17, was reported as a runaway juvenile person from Garner Road.
*Some 350 pounds of copper were reported removed from a Pacific Power substation on Old Stage Road by totally clever thieves who cut a chain to open a gate.
*Thoughtless types broke a window on a fifth-wheel on Ollis Road.
*Weirdos caused $1,000 damage to a storage room door at Kerby Transfer Station, but took nothing.
*Somewhere around 8:30 p.m., the driver of a car failed to yield to a sheriff’s deputy and kept going from Cave Junction into California, where CHP was ready to take over the low-speed pursuit. The driver, tentatively identified as Patricia G. Herbert, 42, finally stopped near Crescent City.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
*There was an alarm at 5:58 a.m. from River Valley Restaurant, when a rear door was opened.
*Infuriating vandals caused $150 damage to a door at a home for sale on Ollis Road.
*Witnesses said that a call to the sheriff’s office was made by “a local maniac.” He asked the call-taker if he was an officer. When told, “No,” he said, “Oh, yeah, all the officers have been shot.”
*Otis Jones, “smelling badly of alcohol,” fainted in the CJ Post Office. He was assisted by emergency aides.
*From 14 to 20 pain pills were taken by her daughter, 14, said a mother in CJ.
*Identity theft by someone in Arizona was reported by a Selma resident.
*After a man kicked a dog on Schumacher Street for peeing on his rose bushes, there was a complaint of harassment. He also threatened to kill the canine, according to the complainant.
Junction resident Kyle J. Reardon, 18, told Grants Pass Police that he was assaulted by three persons after a concert in Grants Pass. He suffered a double fracture to his jaw.
*Video tape was said to be available in connection with persons spray-painting a number of “Stop” signs in the city of Cave Junction.
*From Selma came a call from a disturbed man who said “the deacons” were making him do something. He wanted to know why everyone hates him, and why deputies are giving their personal numbers to all his friends.
*There was a complaint from Schumacher Street that people were dragging an old car with a pickup truck and going over bumps in a continuing problem.
*Several strange remarks were made from Selma by a man who kept phoning the sheriff’s office. He appeared to be hallucinating.
Friday, Nov. 16
*Some genius apparently used a propane torch in an attempt to cut open a steel door and enter the city of Cave Junction water plant on N. Sawyer Avenue.
*What seemed like harassment was reported by a W. Schumacher Street resident after intellectual types in a pickup truck raced up and down his street, revved the engine, and “burned out.”
*After being shot because it was attacking his chickens, said the Norman Road shooter, the suspect dog ran off. The complainant said that there has been a continuing dispute.
*Although she gave someone a check to pay for her grandson’s traffic ticket, said a Selma resident, the someone did not pay the fee.
*“Beyond parental control” was the complaint from parents in Kerby, who said that their son, 14, has been setting fires around the house, using accelerants. They’re concerned, especially for the safety of their other children. There was no crime, but the boy was “strongly counseled.”
*Because a boy in Selma had a fever, and his father was refusing to return him after a visit, his mother was concerned.
*Ivolynne Maybelle Smart, 73, was warned for failure to maintain lane at 7:37 p.m. on Deer Creek Road.
*A certain group of CJ wanderers was reported drunk and loudly yelling at each other, along with dogs barking, for a considerable time near Immanuel United Methodist Church at 7:27 p.m.
*Emergency responders went to about the midway point of Hay’s Hill, and found that a woman had spun out in her car, but was not injured close to 8 p.m.
*There was an audible alarm from a building in the 6000 block of Holland Loop at 8:58 p.m., but no one seemed to know why.
*People were yelling and screaming on Norman Road at 9:21 p.m., but no one seemed to know why.
*Stainless steel kitchen equipment valued at $3,000 was reported stolen from McGrew’s in O’Brien sometime Tuesday or Wednesday, Nov. 13 or 14.
Saturday, Nov. 17
*Three or four happy people were fighting outside a residence on Millie Street at 58 past midnight.
*Brain-dead types placed traffic cones and sawhorses to block Redwood Hwy. near Laurel Road, it was reported at 2:36 a.m.
*Following a report that someone pulled a knife on Millie Street at 3:10 a.m., Jasen R. Lewis, 26, was arrested. He was charged with menacing, three counts of first-degree trespassing, first-degree burglary, second-degree criminal trespass, and three counts of disorderly conduct.
*Following an audible alarm in the 6000 block of Holland Loop at 3:53 a.m., it was determined that a crime had occurred.
*Barriers erected by dopes at the north end of CJ were removed at 4 a.m.
*Another alarm was reported at the place on Holland Loop at 1:18 p.m.
*A boy, 14, was said to have run away from his rural CJ home, and a bag of his clothing was found at a house a few miles away.
*Subsequent to deputies, ambulance and I.V. Fire personnel responding out Kerby Mainline, a man, 29, was arrested under a peace officer’s mental hold. He had stabbed himself, but it was said to be nonlife-threatening. His rifle had been taken away from him, but he kept a knife.
*Kathy Emerich, 44, reported at 7:45 p.m. that at Redwood Hwy. and Deer Creek Road an oncoming vehicle damaged her car, and the driver kept going.
*A suspicious pedestrian wearing dark clothing was staggering into traffic at 8:53 p.m. in the 2000 block of Caves Hwy. (Guess who?)
*A “party” on Schumacher Street included what sounded like gunshots, bottle rockets being fired, and people racing up and down the street at 9:07 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 18
*There would be no response to an alarm in the 6000 block of Holland Loop, owners were told, “unless (it was) a life-threatening emergency.”
*In connection to a domestic dispute, innocent bystander Jennifer O’Niel, suffered a broken lower-left leg after being struck by a car on Schumacher Street shortly before 6:30 p.m. A woman had tried to run over a man, but hit O’Niel instead.
*Lindsay Jade Wright, 38, was cited on charges of second-degree assault, felony failure-to-leave-name-at-the-scene of an injury accident, and DUII on Schumacher. She also was cited on charges of having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, and refusing a breath test. Her vehicle was impounded.
*A man with a long, black mustache and a very big knife figured in a disturbance at a CJ business on 8:24 p.m. People were yelling; there were no apparent injuries. It was noted that the man with the knife returned to a party on Dogwood Lane.
*A woman in Selma said her husband, who might have been intoxicated, took her vehicle without permission. She phoned again later to say it was all OK; she had the vehicle back, and he didn’t know where it was.
*Max Taylor, 22, was cited on a charge of DUII in Downtown CJ at 9:47 p.m.
*After an OSP game officer was in foot pursuit in the 7000 block of Rockydale Road, and couldn’t be contacted by radio, deputies responded at 10:07 p.m. The trooper was OK; apparently he was chasing a possible deer poacher.
*Following a chase at 11:13 p.m., the pursuing deputy lost sight of the vehicle near a CJ tavern.
*Unbelievably clever persons placed traffic cones on the roadway at Redwood Hwy. and Laurel Road.
*Close to midnight, a deputy assisted an OSP trooper with a DUII driver in at Sis’s Gap.
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