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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, November 28, 2007
DUII crash handled by OSP
GP homicide investigated
The death of an elderly
woman in the city of Grants
Pass, which first seemed to be
of natural causes, has been
ruled a homicide, Det. Sgt. Rob
Gunderson, of GP Dept. of
Public Safety, said Monday,
Nov. 26.
The woman is identified
as Lola A. Pierce, 82, of Clo-
verlawn Drive. She was found
deceased by city officers on
Saturday, Nov. 17 after
neighbors said that she hadn’t
been seen for a couple of days.
Officers entered the home
and conducted an initial inves-
tigation, finding no cause for
suspicion, Gunderson said.
When detectives went to the
residence two days later, fol-
lowing up on the unattended
death, they found out-of-state
family members, who had been
notified of the death, at the
home.
“During the interview
with family members, suspi-
cions were raised,” said Gun-
derson, “based on physical
evidence at the scene, and on
some things detectives ob-
served while at the residence.
“Based on those observa-
tions, an autopsy was re-
quested, and conducted by the
medical examiner, who deter-
mined the manner of death was
homicide.”
Gunderson added that the
Oregon State Police Crime Lab
in Central Point was contacted to
process the crime scene. Infor-
mation was not released to news
media, he said, “to allow investi-
gators time without raising the
suspicion of the suspect.
“The cause of death and
circumstances surrounding the
death are not being released at
this time as they could interfere
with the investigation,” he said.
Investigation is continu-
ing. Anyone with information
about the deceased is asked to
phone 474-6370.
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* * *
Sunday, Nov. 18
*A man with a long, black
mustache and a very big knife
figured in a disturbance at a
Cave Junction business on 8:24
p.m. People were yelling; there
were no apparent injuries. It
was said that the man with the
knife returned to a party on
Dogwood Lane.
*A woman in Selma said
that her husband, who might
have been intoxicated, took her
vehicle without permission.
She phoned later to say it was
all OK; she had the vehicle
back, and he didn’t know
where.
*Max Taylor, 22, was
cited on a charge of driving
under the influence of an in-
toxicant (DUII) in Downtown
CJ at 9:47 p.m.
*After an OSP game offi-
cer was in foot pursuit in the
7000 block of Rockydale
Road, and couldn’t be con-
tacted by radio, deputies re-
sponded at 10:07 p.m. The
trooper was OK; apparently he
was chasing a possible deer
poacher.
*Following a chase at
11:13 p.m., the pursuing dep-
uty lost sight of the vehicle
near a Cave Junction tavern.
*Unbelievably clever per-
sons placed traffic cones on the
roadway at Redwood Hwy.
and Laurel Road.
*Close to midnight, a dep-
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near milepost 23.
Monday, Nov. 19
*In Selma a man that his
former care-taker had threat-
ened to “butcher” him.
*A Madrona Drive resi-
dence was reported burglar-
ized.
*On Waldo Road, a
woman reported that someone
who was on the run from the
police had hidden overnight in
a building next to her house.
The person was gone when a
family member checked.
*A man on Kendall Road
said that his cat apparently was
shot with a pellet gun. He said
that his dog was shot similarly
last year.
*Jeff D. Lauderdale, 30,
was taken to Josephine County
Jail on a charge of violating
probation.
*With an emphatic
“Nothing happened here,”
medical units were advised to
not respond to what might have
been (the caller was hard to
understand) a report of a vio-
lent confrontation resulting in a
man in Kerby being stuck in
his neck with a needle.
*In the 400 block of S.
Redwood Hwy., Dennis P.
Miller, 45, was cited on
charges of driving with a sus-
pended license (DWS), and
driving without insurance. His
vehicle was impounded.
*Someone took an ax to
the door of St. Matthias Epis-
copal Church to gain entry. It
was unknown if anything was
missing, but someone supplied
suspect information.
*Two bottles of liquor
were reported stolen from a
restaurant in Downtown CJ by
youths taking advantage of a
power outage.
*In the 38000 block of
Redwood Hwy. a woman was
concerned that her neighbor
might not be shooting in a safe
manner, and requested a dep-
uty check on it.
*Following a traffic stop
on E. River Street at Old Stage
Road, Manuel Joseph Cere-
Cave Junction resident
Richard W. Wagner, 47, was
arrested two hours after a three-
vehicle injury traffic crash, and
cited and released on charges
including driving under the
influence of an intoxicant.
Oregon State Police
added that the accident oc-
curred on Hwy. 199 near
milepost 36, south of
O’Brien, on Friday, Nov. 23.
It was reported at 5:15 p.m.
Besides DUII, Wagner
was cited on charges of driv-
ing with a revoked license,
failure to perform the duties
of a driver/injury accident,
providing false information,
possession of less than an
ounce of marijuana, driving
without insurance, and pos-
session of an open container
of alcohol in a vehicle.
Other drivers were iden-
tified as Paul Garcia, 82, of
Crescent City, Calif.; and Ger
Xiong, 23, of Marysville,
Calif. Xiong had a passenger,
identified as Kong Pang
Yang, 4, also of Marysville.
Xiong was taken by Ameri-
can Medical Response to
Three Rivers Community
Hospital for treatment of mi-
nor injures, OSP said.
Troopers provided the
following scenario:
Wagner was southbound
on 199, coasting on the shoul-
der after his pickup truck ran
out of gasoline. He swerved
back onto the highway as
Garcia, also southbound, be-
gan to pass.
Garcia’s Chevy Cavalier
struck the left rear of the
pickup, and glanced off the
side of the box into the path of
Xiong. Garcia and Xiong met,
driver’s side to driver’s side.
Wagner and his vehicle
were pushed off the road by
bystanders, and he made it to
O’Brien Store, where he pur-
chased gasoline. He went up
Lone Mountain Road, and an
trooper caught up with him as
he turned onto Naue Way.
His blood alcohol con-
tent two hours after the crash
was .025 percent, OSP said.
cedes, 24, was jailed on war-
rants charging failure to appear
(FTA). Cerecedes also was
cited for failure to carry proof
of insurance, and his vehicle
was impounded. Passenger
Justin Leavitt, 36, was cited on
warrants from Medford and
Josephine County charging
FTA and lodged in county jail.
*Mark L. Jordan, 46, was
cited on a charge of DWS on
N. Redwood Hwy. at E. River
Street at 11:20 p.m. His vehicle
was impounded.
*At quarter to midnight, a
man phoned from Downtown
CJ to reported that he’d suf-
fered injuries to his head and
jaw after he was assaulted at a
tavern by a 6-foot tall man
with brown hair who left on
foot.
Tuesday, Nov. 20
*Neil Joseph Martinez,
50, was cited on a charge of
DWS. The vehicle he was driv-
ing was impounded.
*A man who’d reported
himself assaulted earlier was
contacted at 1 a.m. and trans-
ported to Three Rivers Com-
munity Hospital (TRCH).
*Her former tenant threat-
ened to beat her because she
disposed of property left be-
hind some two years ago, a
woman stated.
*Theft of a 20-inch BMX
bike from a residence on N.
Junction Avenue was reported.
*From Selma a caller re-
ported that her mother was
using drugs and threatening to
harm herself. When contacted,
the woman consented to go to
TRCH for evaluation.
*Following a complaint
that a man made threatening
comments toward a woman
and spun out on Hussey Ave-
nue, he was counseled on his
driving habits.
*In the 37000 block of
Redwood Hwy. a man reported
theft of prescription medication
and a credit card. He later
stated that the issue had been
resolved.
*During a search of Illi-
nois Valley High School stu-
dents due to recent bomb
threats, one student was found
in possession of marijuana. The
issue was dealt with by the
school.
*A Kerby resident re-
ported that the driver of a
brown pickup truck pulled over
in front of the residence to yell
at a small child riding in the
bed.
*A deer needed dispatch-
ing in the 21000 block of Red-
wood Hwy. at 9:18 p.m.
*Samuel A. Simpson, 19,
was cited on a charge of VBR
(violation of the basic rule). He
was said to be traveling 75
mph in a 45 mph zone.
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