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Friday, Aug. 17
*Because he had not yet left private property, a 60-year-old man in Kerby was not charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants or any other crime after he wrecked the motorcycle he was trying to drive at 1:30 a.m. It landed on top of him, and it appeared he’d damaged an ankle, but he refused medical treatment.
*A piece of unidentified fruit was thrown through a window at a home on W. Lister Street, causing a reported $100 damage.
*Robert B. Watkins, 23, was cited on charges of driving with a suspended license (DWS) and lack of insurance.
*Presenting a phony Social Security card, a woman attempted to obtain an Oregon ID card, reported a DMV employee at the Cave Junction office.
*Two men were loitering near a Selma business and were drinking beer, a man reported. He noted that this happens every day.
*Carpeting was cut out and appliances taken from a vacant home on Cabernet Drive, a contractor’s superintendent reported.
*Clifford Jerone Tucker, 33, was cited on a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle (UUV), and a red Dodge pickup truck was recovered from his possession.
Saturday, Aug. 18
*His sister’s boyfriend was intoxicated and arguing with everyone, said a Caves Hwy. resident, who wanted the offending party removed at 12:27 a.m. After the situation “resolved itself,” the caller was advised of civil options for eviction proceedings.
*Patrol time was spent at various camps along Illinois River on Eight Dollar Mountain Road.
Sunday, Aug. 19
*Twenty minutes after midnight a caller complained about a loud party which had been going on all day on Dogwood Lane.
*Someone in the Holland community has a cell phone which dialed 911 several times. The call-taker could hear music at times, but the exact location of the phone could not be fixed.
*A public telephone on Lakeshore Drive was the source of a 911 hang-up call at 7:15 a.m.
*A Cave Junction mother reported that her 8-year-old son was “out of control,” yelling and throwing things at her at 7:18 p.m.
*In the 700 block of Caves Hwy. a former tenant was picking peaches and plums from the property without permission, the current resident said. The caller was told that the landlord needed to make a complaint.
*Despite a heavy chain and padlocks, an irrigation pump was taken from an Aquarius Way address, the owner reported.
Monday, Aug. 20
*In the 900 block of Caves Hwy., family members were said to be fighting about a lawsuit at 9 a.m.
*On Dick George Road a former tenant had returned to retrieve property, and another tenant was having a problem with that. The matter was resolved civilly.
*Joann Marie Rhodes (AKA Joann Marie Yurkovich), 39, was lodged in Josephine County Jail; and cited on warrants charging failure to appear on charges including second-degree burglary and theft, and UUV.
*Eight small window panes were broken out at a business on Caves Hwy., a tenant reported.
*A Schumacher Street resident complained that his neighbor was smoking marijuana, which was entering his dwelling. Information was referred to the landlord and Josephine Interagency Narcotics Team (JOINT).
Tuesday, Aug. 21
*A speeding car, two gunshots and a man’s yelling voice could be heard on School Street in Kerby at 12:45 a.m.
*A black-and-gray Nissan Pathfinder reported stolen overnight from a Cave Junction address was recovered on Westside Road.
*Two portable shop lights were reported taken from a construction site on N. Redwood Hwy.
*In the 1300 block of Lakeshore Drive a man reported that his wife hit him and wouldn’t allow him to leave. She could be heard yelling, “I did not!” He declined to pursue harassment charges and left.
*After a 4-year-old on Hays Cut Off phoned 911, her sister, 15, explained that everything was “fine.”
*Thieves gained entry to a van parked in the 200 block of W. Watkins Street and removed a toolbox and prescription medications, a caller reported.
*A woman said that her son was being harassed by men in a red Jeep who threatened to beat him.
*A Selma man said that he’d been informed by law enforcement in San Bernardino, Calif. that his ID had been used to purchase a vehicle. A suspect was in custody, but a report from the victim’s agency was needed.
*On Rockydale Road, a vehicle had been driven into a tree, but the elderly driver was said to be uninjured.
*A pack of children threw dirt clods into her swimming pool, complained a woman on Shadowbrook Drive. She said she has photographs of the culprits.
*A good deal of yelling and cursing was coming from a vehicle one driveway away from a caller on Caves Hwy. at 10:30 p.m.
*Two vehicles were said to be speed racing and also “doing doughnuts” at 10:40 in Kerby.
*A vehicle with a spot light pulled onto his driveway, a Caves Hwy. resident said. It then sped away around 11:37 p.m.
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