Swinney charged with multiple sex offenses

From our weekly issue dated May 26, 2010


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Craig Swinney

Oregon State Police Criminal Investigations Division detectives have arrested a 53-year old Grants Pass-area man on numerous sex offenses following a six-month investigation.

Detective Tom Harrison (OSP Central Point) and Detective John Riddle (OSP Coos Bay) completed the investigation. It was presented by the Josephine County District Attorney“s Office before a grand jury, and resulted in the indictment against Craig Alan Swinney, 53, on the following charges:

Rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration and sex abuse, all in the first degree; and second-degree sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration.

The charges are related to alleged sex crimes during a six-year period toward a juvenile female. Following the indictment, arrest warrants were obtained. OSP detectives arrested Swinney at a Grants Pass-area residence without incident.

Swinney was lodged in Josephine County Jail in Grants Pass. Bail is listed at $400,000.


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