Police Blotter
From our weekly issue dated September 16, 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.)
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Monday, Aug. 31
- Fireworks were heard, then smoke detected in the 900 block of Caves Hwy. at 12:05 a.m.
- A motion alarm was triggered at a Downtown Cave Junction establishment at 3:04 a.m., but no one reported anything suspicious.
- At Illinois Valley Fire District Station 4 on Holland Loop Road a motion detection alarm was triggered at 10:29 a.m.
- Gunshots and yelling were heard coming from a Rockydale Road location. Individuals located at a shooting range were all fine.
- A well-behaved black Lab was found on Junction Avenue. Animal Control retrieved the retriever.
- A white, four-door vehicle was said being driven recklessly on Redwood Hwy. at 3:12 p.m. It turned onto Lakeshore Drive, the caller said.
- After a report of a break-in at a Draper Valley Road residence, Brandon Mitchell Kinsey, 16, was lodged at the Juvenile Justice Center in Grants Pass on charges of first-degree burglary, first-degree theft and second-degree criminal mischief.
- In the 7000 block of Caves Hwy. at 10:39 p.m., Marisa May Bynum, 29, was cited on a charge of driving with a suspended license.
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Tuesday, Sept. 1
- Attempted entry to a home on S. Junction Avenue was logged.
- A group of some 10 transients, men and women, were hanging out alongside a business in the 200 block of S. Redwood Hwy. An employee didn’t feel comfortable asking them to leave.
- A man was transported from a Laurel Road residence to Three Rivers Community Hospital after an alleged purposeful methadone overdose.
- At 8 p.m. a man reported having suffered a possible broken arm when he was assaulted by another man at a Downtown CJ bar.
- A caller stated that a driver on N. Junction Avenue was smoking his wheels and endangering children with his driving habits.
- Overheard on E. O’Brien Road was a man saying, “Go ahead and shoot me if you want the cops to come.” They came, but found nothing.
- A caller from Squaw Mountain Road at 7:44 p.m. said that drivers were racing around creating dust and excessive noise.
- David B. Coles, 45, was lodged in county jail on a charge of fourth-degree domestic assault after it was reported that he’d locked his ex-wife out of the house.
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Wednesday, Sept. 2
- No logs available today.
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Thursday, Sept. 3
- “I see you” was spray painted on the side of the DMV office building on S. Kerby Avenue, a caller stated at 10:44 a.m.
- A possibly intoxicated driver rear-ended a tow truck on Redwood Hwy., a caller said. No JCSO deputies or OSP officers were in position to respond.
- After she took photos of waste left on her property, those responsible threatened to burn her house, an O’Brien resident said. Several people were warned against trespassing on the property.
- A motorhome said fully involved in flame set fire to a small patch of wildland off Redwood Hwy. just south of the Oregon/California state line. Assistance was rendered to CHP.
- Jake Cato Ralston, 18, was cited on a charge of speeding (74 mph in a 55 mph zone) on Redwood Hwy. at mile marker 36 at 10:30 p.m.
- Richard Raymond Sandoval, 24, was cited on a charge of speeding (68 mph in a 45 mph zone) on Redwood Hwy. near Rockydale Road at 10:46 p.m.
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Friday, Sept. 4
- Theft of a leather purse containing a prepaid credit card and personal items from a vehicle parked near the Cave Junction Post Office was reported.
- A man on Eight Dollar Mountain Road who’d had a confrontation with a BLM employee earlier was told something.
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