Illinois Valley News Vol. 71 No. 46 Dated: 2009.01.28

Police Blotter

From our weekly issue dated January 28, 2009

(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.)

Thursday, Jan. 15
- Shortly prior to 5 a.m. a caller reported a person inside the Junction Inn restaurant. It was a manager.
- Theft of some 10 gallons of gasoline from a vehicle in a barn on Laurel Road was reported.
- Fredrick F. Whitehead, 49, was cited on a charge of driving with a suspended license in the 3000 block of Illinois River Road at 4 p.m.
- At 10:13 p.m. a disturbance was reported at a residence on N. Caves Avenue.
Friday, Jan. 16
- Nancy Michiko Blackner, 29, was cited on a charge of speeding (72 mph in a 55 mph zone) at 11:03 a.m.
- Glue from a construction project triggered a fire alarm at a S. Junction Avenue residence. Illinois Valley Fire District responded in force.
- The late-December theft of a $350 nebulizer, for helping treat ailments including asthma, from an unlocked vehicle on Watkins Street was reported.
- On Caves Avenue, Vincent Lou Kieffer, 25, was cited on a charge of driving uninsured. He also was warned for lacking a driver-side fender and headlight. The vehicle was impounded.
- It was reported that a boy was assaulted by another at Illinois Valley High School.
- Robin Scott, 40, was cited on a charge of harassment following a reported disturbance on Hogue Drive.
- An unsecured door was found at the Cave Junction DMV office after an alarm sounded at 7:41 p.m. No entry appeared to have been made.
- A 12-year-old girl was reported as a runaway juvenile person from a McMullen Creek Road residence.
- On McMullen Creek Road a child reported that her parents were intoxicated and throwing things. No crime was in evidence. All parties were counseled and agreed to discuss it in the morning.
Saturday, Jan. 17
- Shelaine Michelle Quall, 21, was cited on a charge of driving uninsured on Redwood Hwy. at Hanby Lane at 12:40 a.m. A passenger, Jerry Victor Lewis Owens Jr., 25, was cited on a Multnomah County warrant charging carrying a concealed weapon.
- At Page Mountain SnoPark, Donald Wayne Fouse Jr., 31, was cited on a charge of being on a closed road in a motor vehicle. Also, Brandon Keith Gayler, 28, was cited for lack of a SnoPark parking permit.
- A Cave Junction woman was transported by American Medical Response to Three Rivers Community Hospital (TRCH) in Grants Pass after she smoked some marijuana which she came to believe was laced with some other substance.
- Three people contacted while skeet shooting on Suncrest Drive were told to pick up their trash and move on.
- On Honeybee Lane a woman was concerned because for several weeks her neighbor’s porch light had turned on and off at different intervals all evening. A deputy discovered that it was a motion-activated light, a technology about which the elderly complainant had never heard and was “not happy” to learn of.
Sunday, Jan. 18
- Lights on a bus parked near Evergreen Elementary School had been flashing for at least four hours, a caller stated at 9:38 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 19
- Someone in a dark-colored pickup truck was reported driving without lights while hauling wood from the Gold Canyon Drive area.
- A tri-fold wallet containing cash and ID was reported lost in the 200 block of W. Watkins Street.
- In the 27000 block of Redwood Hwy. a caller was concerned for his child because his wife was “flipping out” and shaking the child. She was taken to TRCH on a peace officer’s mental hold.
- Ashley Nicole Novak, 21, was cited on a charge of improper display on Redwood Hwy. at Reeves Creek Road at 7:19 p.m.; and cited on a Jackson County warrant charging failure to appear on an original charge of menacing.
- After his brother was assaulted in Downtown Cave Junction, a caller said around 11 p.m., some people drove by and shot at his Hanby Lane residence. A neighbor also reported the drive-by incident.
- On E. River Street a man was reported knocking on the back door of a residence and refusing to leave. He was warned against criminal trespassing there.
Tuesday, Jan. 20
- A man selling blankets on the vacant lot near Junction Inn said he was harassed by a man who found some of his blanket styles “offensive.”
- After a surveyor left, his neighbor tore down a red-flagged marker, said a Deer Creek Road resident.
- Some $1,800 cash was reported taken from a home-based business in the 28000 block of Redwood Hwy.
- Burglary of a home on Too Far South Lane between noon and 4:30 p.m. was reported at 4:47 p.m.
- Gunshots, possibly automatic weapon fire from somewhere in the vicinity of Davis Creek Road, were reported at 6:41 p.m.
- At 6:36 p.m. a 6-year-old boy on W. O’Brien Street mistakenly dialed 911, got scared and hung up, his grandmother said.
Wednesday, Jan. 21
- After a Grants Pass resident reported that a bullet came through his bedroom wall and nearly struck him, city police contacted a neighbor, James M. Powers Jr., 58. He was cited and released on charges of recklessly endangering and second-degree criminal mischief. He apparently was allowed to retain his 9mm handgun.
Friday, Jan. 23
- Two Grants Pass men were arrested by city police after an attempt to elude during which the driver let out his passenger. The driver, Anthony W. Masters, 40, was charged with fleeing and attempting to elude, plus possession of methamphetamine. Orrin A. Kent 46, was charged under four warrants.