OCTOBER 23, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
police scanner
TUESDAY, OCT. 13
Sam Orcutt Way NE.
• 1:28 a.m. - Arrest for DUII and
vandalism on 3400 block River
Road N.
• 4:50 p.m. - Traffi c accident in-
jury on Wheatland Road N. and
Foothill Court NE.
• 7 p.m. - Arrest for warrant on
700 block Lost Lane N.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14
• 6:02 a.m. - Stolen vehicle on
500 block Chemawa Road N.
• 11:06 a.m. - Arrest for driving
while suspended on 700 block
Plymouth Drive NE.
• 11:48 a.m. - Unlawful posses-
sion of methamphetamine, un-
lawful delivery of marijuana 1000
feet of school and unlawful con-
trolled substance on 1300 block
Marigold Street NE.
• 1:38 p.m. - Arrest for menacing
use of weapons on 4100 block
River Road N.
• 2 p.m. - Arrest for shoplifting
on 4300 block River Road N.
• 9:25 p.m. - Arrest for warrant
on 900 Sagrada Circle N.
• 10:15 p.m. - Arrest for bench
warrant on Cherry Ave. NE. and
THURSDAY, OCT. 15
• 5:49 a.m. - Arrest for parole
violation on 4100 block River
Road N.
• 11:55 a.m. - Arrest for physical
harassment on 6900 block 8th
Court NE.
• 8:21 p.m. - Arrest for warrant
on River Road N. and Lockhav-
en Drive N.
• 9:38 p.m. - Unlawful posses-
sion of marijuana on Chemawa
Road N.
• 10 p.m. - Theft on 6300 block
Nicklaus Loop N.
• 10:30 p.m. - Arrest for warrant
on 5800 block Keizer Station
Blvd. NE.
FRIDAY, OCT. 16
• 12:20 a.m. - DUII on Verda
Lane NE. and Salem Parkway
NE.
• 7:30 p.m. - Vandalism on 4900
block Rickman Road NE.
• 9:15 p.m. - Arrest for harass-
ment and criminal threats on 800
Chemawa Road N.
• 10:44 p.m. - Arrest for DUII
traffi c court
NO INSURANCE
Shawn Leroy Branson, $500;
Kenneth Raymond Schmidt,
$225.
DRIVING WHILE
SUSPENDED
Eduardo Valencia, $1,058;
Shawn Leroy Branson, $1,058;
Lisa L. Schmid, $1,058.
SPEEDING
Megan Ann Hutchens, $160;
Abigail Marie Louthan, $95;
Cynthia Marie Conder, $145;
Sarah Rebekkah Tavera, $145.
NO LICENSE
Evangelina Anguiano Navarro,
$200.
USE OF MOBILE DEVICE
Rachel Marie Britt, $292;
Ana Angelina Ceja Perez,
$125; Eliberto Guajardo III,
$130; Jennifer Nicole Dami-
co, $125; Westin James Bred-
berg, $125.
OTHER
Evangelina Anguiano Navarro,
failure to drive within a lane,
$200.
on 6th Ave. NE. and Arleta Place
NE.
SATURDAY, OCT. 17
• 1:13 a.m. - Arrest for unlawful
possession of methamphetamine
on Kalmia Drive NE. and Arcade
Ave. NE.
• 1:30 a.m. - Stolen vehicle on
4800 Verda Lane NE.
• 10:00 p.m. - Theft on 4900
block Wolf Street N.
SUNDAY, OCT. 18
• 12:30 a.m. - Disorderly con-
duct on 7400 block Meadowglen
Street NE.
• 1:40 a.m. - Arrest for assault on
3300 River Road N.
• 9:18 p.m. - Arrest for DUII on
River Road N. and Sam Orcut
Way NE.
• 10:45 p.m. - Traffi c accident
and DUII on Wheatland Road
N. and McNary Heights Drive
N.
MONDAY, OCT. 19
• 2:23 a.m. - Arrest for DUII on
River Road N. and Dearborn
Ave. NE.
births
• Piper Lynn Chavez was
born October 6, 2015 at Sa-
lem Hospital. The baby girl
weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces.
The parents are Anthony
Chavez and Marina Granno
of Keizer.
• Sasha Igorevna Sitnik
was born October 15, 2015 at
Salem Hospital. The baby girl
weighed 8 pounds. The par-
ents are Igor and Leva Sitnik
of Keizer. The grandparents
are Alexandr and Vera Kiryu-
ta of Keizer, and Lyubov and
Aleksey Sitnik of Salem.
It’s all according to code
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Ben Crosby hit the ground
running.
He hasn’t stopped yet.
Crosby, Keizer’s Code Com-
pliance offi cer, was hired in the
spring. He gave an update at the
West Keizer Neighborhood As-
sociation meeting Oct. 8.
“My emphasis is on compli-
ance, more than enforcement,”
Crosby said. “I’ve been here
almost six months now. I’ve is-
sued no tickets and towed one
car. We’ve had close to 1,000
cases in six months. Everyone is
really listening to the rules and
being educated.”
Crosby looks for nuisance
issues like tall weeds and aban-
doned vehicles, housing code
questions, development code
questions and graffi ti.
“A lot of it comes down to
neighbor expectations,” he said.
“You have some areas where
people have yard cars and tall
weeds but no one calls it in be-
cause that’s how it is. Then you
go down two blocks and some-
one with weeds gets called in by
a neighbor.”
Crosby said a house fi re on
Cade Street became a higher
priority because of 11 people
living in three trailers.
“Everyone I’ve met there
has been cooperating and get-
ting other places to stay,” he said.
“I’m happy with the coopera-
tion I’ve been getting from ev-
erybody.”
Crosby, who previously did
the same job in Salem for nine
years, explained the process of
notifying people about being
out of compliance.
“I send out a nice notice
and try to knock on the door,”
he said. “The nice notice gives
them a couple of weeks to take
care of it. If it’s not taken care
of, I send a formal notice. That
adds two or three weeks. For
abandoned houses, I will jump
to that formal notice and it will
be a couple of weeks. There is
a minimum of 14 days by state
law. Depending on the viola-
tion, if there’s an immediate
safety issue or if I know I won’t
get a response, I can go straight
to citations. But that rarely
happens. If the neglect of the
property is to the point where
it is unsafe or if children are in-
volved, I can do that. It has to be
to that extreme.”
In response to a question
from Ron Freeman, Crosby said
there is no ordinance currently
about a storage pod being on
the street.
Crosby noted he’s starting
fresh, meaning properties or
people with previous compli-
ance issues are being restarted
with the notifi cation process.
What kind of information
does Crosby need to move for-
ward on a complaint?
“Applications are fi ne,”
Crosby said. “I need a contact
person. Pictures aren’t necessary.
If you can fi ll out the informa-
tion well enough, I can go from
there. If neighbors can see the
backyard that’s in question, I
can ask the neighbor how they
view the violation. Usually 90
percent of the time it is an edu-
cation thing. I will bring people
out to the sidewalk and have
them look at their property and
their neighbor’s property.”
Crosby has seen many bas-
ketball hoops but said they don’t
fall under city code in terms of
being on sidewalks.
“That really is about neigh-
borhood expectations,” he said.
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Crosby’s boss, Community
Development director Nate
Brown, also addressed the bas-
ketball issue.
“Basketball hoops are a sticky
problem,” Brown said. “They
are everywhere. At some point
there’s going to be a tipping
point about what’s obstruction
and action needed by the city.
The other day Ben got a basket-
ball hoop complaint. Ben talked
to them, had a nice friendly
conversation and the basketball
(hoop) went away.”
Crosby noted he was hired
just as the busy time was get-
ting going.
“Summer time is the busy
time of year for codes,” he said.
“Everything swamped us. I will
get to the point where I’ll have
time to go out and take care of
bigger stuff.”
Crosby emphasized he
doesn’t tell people he contacts
who made the complaint.
“If only a couple of neigh-
bors can see it, that person will
fi gure out who it is,” he said.
“But I’ll never tell them it was
you.”
Rod Conway, fi re marshal
for the Keizer Fire District, also
spoke about compliance from
the fi re district perspective.
“I get lots of calls about tall
grass,” Conway said. “You need
to do something with it because
it’s a fi re hazard. If it’s in a mo-
bile home park or apartments, I
will dive on it immediately and
give it 30 days or less. If it’s real
bad weather like it was around
the 4th of July, it’ll be 72 hours.”
Conway noted the city out-
lawed backyard burning about a
decade ago.
“People got tired of peo-
ple not using common sense,”
Conway said. “They would do
it closer to a neighbor’s house
than their own house. Backyard
burning is a $500 ticket. If you
don’t response, I will send a bill
for $5,000.”
Conway said business in-
spections are a part of his job.
“Commercial fi res are pretty
much nonexistent here,” he said.
“I used to go out and check ev-
ery business every year. Now it’s
more like a three-, four- or even
eight-year rotation. I check
schools every year and try to do
churches annually.”