Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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Love hurts when doing methamphetamine
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
Walter Love was a building contractor in
Jackson County for 22 years, but when he got
in trouble for methamphetamine possession, it
cost him everything he had.
Love had already been arrested twice
for meth when he was stopped at a roadblock
about 18 months ago.
Two men had flipped their truck while
trying to elude police and had escaped on
foot. Love happened to be driving down the
same mountain road near Rogue River and his
vehicle was searched for the fugitives.
“When the cops stopped me, they ran
my license and came up with a warrant
for a previous arrest,” Love related. “They
searched me, found some meth and I was ar-
rested again.”
When Love went to court on the com-
bined charges, he was told that if he could
graduate from Drug Court, all the charges
would be dismissed.
“If it weren’t for drug court, I’d proba-
bly be dead by now,” Love said. “It saved my
life and it’s the best thing that ever happened
to me.”
The Archive Zone:
for
was 5,595 per 100,000 people, or translated to Cave Junc-
tion population of 700 people, approximately 39 larcenies
were reported as compared to an average of 27 for a city of
this size. It is estimated only 50 percent of crimes commit-
ted are reported to the police, Carlton said, so statistics are
based on a 50 percent crime figure, the other 50 percent not
considered. A member of the audience said he no longer
reports crimes committed at his place of business because
the district attorney’s office was uncooperative. “What does
a citizen do when a criminal is caught, jailed, and released?
How does a citizen find out what has happened?” he asked.
Carlton reminded chamber members that the district attor-
ney’s office is an elected one and if an elected official is
unresponsive to the citizen’s needs, he could be replaced in
the next election.
CJPD investigates assault. Cave Junction police are
investigating the beating or hit and run of a transient found
in a ditch behind the House Haywood Tuesday afternoon.
According to officer Art Edwards, the man was either Eric
or Jim Brown, of either Crescent City or Coos Bay. He first
said he had been struck by a truck, later said he didn’t want
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to press charges. He was covered by two or three blankets
when found, Edwards said, and had suffered a heavy blow
to the head from a large rock. He was taken to Josephine
General Hospital by Action Ambulance, sewn up and re-
leased. Deputy sheriffs said the 20-year-old Brown was very
uncooperative, a statement verified by Cave Junction police.
The case remains an assault by person or persons unknown.
Guns for a flagpole. Organizations working to ob-
tain a flagpole for the I.V. High School report that two
guns have been selected by the committee as the focus of
flagpole donations. A 12 gauge pump shotgun retailing at
$125 will be on display at Western Auto and a 30-06 670
Winchester with scope, retailing at $229.95, will be on
display at F&W Clothing and Sporting Goods Store. Sug-
gested donations are $1 each ticket or $5 for seven tickets.
They are available at A&B Sporting Goods, Herb’s Mobile
Homes, Western Auto, and F&W Clothing and Sporting
Goods Store. Sponsors of the flagpole money-raising event
are the Kiwanis, the I.V. Lions, I.V. Chamber of Commerce,
and Glenn Morrison Post 70, The American Legion.
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health or residential treatment.
Phase 3 is maintenance and transition
and Phase 4 includes aftercare and reintegra-
tion into society.
Wels said, “We save the community
quite a bit of money diverting people who
would otherwise face prison sentences and
providing them with treatment and services
tailored to their individual needs. Each par-
ticipant has a unique offer from the district
attorney as far as what will happen when
they complete our program. Some have their
charges dismissed, some simply have their
probation terminated, but the charges remain
on their record, some simply remove the auto-
matic prison sentence hanging over them and
continue on probation.”
Love said, “Not a lot of people make it
through. When I started out there was a lot of
people and I didn’t see any of them when I
graduated. You’ve got to be committed to one
thing and that’s quitting drugs.
“I know I won’t be doing it anymore,
I’m happy with my new life, it’s a great
achievement,” he said. “I’m honored to
graduate drug court. I would have gone to
prison. I didn’t have a family back then, but I
do now. I’ve pretty much grown up.”
by Hillary Mohr from the Illinois Valley News archives
This week we take a hop, skip and a jump back to Sept.
22, 1977. Summer had come to an end, the kids were well
into their first month back to school and the Frontier Drive-
In was still open for business. Take a seat and rest a spell
with us here in the Archive Zone.
Carlton: CJ has crime problem. “You do have a
problem,” said Jim Carlton, referring to the crime rate in
Cave Junction. Criminal justice planner for Rogue Valley
Council on Governments, Carlton, addressing members
of the I.V. Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning, read
Oregon crime statistics which showed Cave Junction’s pres-
ent crime rate is inordinately high. In 1974, for comparison
purposes, the state average for burglaries was 1,814 per
100,000 people, while Cave Junction’s rate was only 1,147
per 100,000 people. Larcenies reported in 1974 showed
the state rate at 3,603 and Cave Junction’s rate well below
average at 2,439. In 1976, a year when the crime rate was
lowered all over the nation, Carlton said, the state average
for burglaries per 100,000 people was 1,684. In Cave Junc-
tion the rate of burglaries was at 2,582 per 100,000. The
larceny rate for the state average 3,775; Cave Junction’s rate
B ingo
Southern Oregon State College (now South-
ern Oregon University).
“Meth has been around since World
War II,” he said. “Adolf Hitler used it on his
troops. I liked it because it kept me alert.”
Love quit drinking alcohol in 1987 after
racking up three “driving under the influence
of intoxicants” (DUII) citations, but he kept
on using meth.
Once he began drug court, he was
encouraged to drop his drug-using friends
and to stop going to places that for him could
trigger drug abuse.
The system takes participants through
four phases of recovery. Phase 1 includes
assessment, stabilization and developing a
treatment plan with an assigned counselor.
“The counselor helped us talk about it,
and helped us figure out how to stay straight
when we graduate,” Love said.
Phase 1 is the most rigorous, with at-
tendance required five days a week at group
counseling, plus random drug testing and
community support meetings (Alcoholics
Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous) three
days a week.
Phase 2 includes vocational or educa-
tional counseling and may include mental
According to www.AllRise.org, there are
over 2,700 drug courts in the U.S. from which
over a million people have graduated.
Seventy-five percent who complete drug
court never offend again, which has saved
U.S. taxpayers billions in prison, court and
hospitalization costs.
Josephine County Drug Court coordina-
tor Amy Wels explained in an email, “Our
drug court has been in existence since 1996,
and we have had a total of 355 graduates, in-
cluding Walter and five others who graduated
Sept. 16. We’ve also had 30 drug free babies
born over the years.”
“The program takes an average of 15
months to complete and we typically have
between 38 and 50 active participants at any
given time,” she said.
Love was able to complete the course
in less time, “One year, one month and three
weeks,” he said proudly.
“It takes some people three years, but
I did it in 461 days. Graduating was a great
experience and an honor being recognized for
something I did in my life. I worked hard and
it’s great to be recognized for it.”
A self-described “wild child” Love first
encountered meth when he was attending
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