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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2017
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“On Dec. 20, at about 8
p.m., OSP officers responded
to a report of a drunk and dis-
orderly subject at the
Rhododendron Trailer Park in
Florence. While enroute,
information was received that
the disorderly subject and
resident was threatening to
shoot everyone in the park.
Troopers arrived at the scene
and located Williams in his
singlewide
manufactured
home. While attempting to
make contact with Williams,
he pointed a firearm at the
troopers.”
Rhododendron Trailer Park
Manager Linda Varvel said
she has had previous issues of
violence with Williams, but
this incident was much worse
than any of the preceding sit-
uations.
“I got a call from a tenant
saying he was ranting and
raving and throwing a fit.
They were scared, so I went
down there,” Varvel said.
“Normally I can calm him
down, but there was no calm-
ing him down this time. He
came at me and chased my
son down the road, threaten-
ing to kill us both and every-
body else that was back
there.”
Varvel’s son Jeff was
upstairs watching television,
heard the ruckus being
caused by Williams, and
made his way to the man’s
trailer.
“I went down there and
told him he needed to stop
yelling and screaming and he
just started threatening me,
saying he was gonna shoot
me and my mom,” he said.
“Then he shoved my mom
almost to the ground and I
wasn’t gonna have that. Then
he started chasing me, yelling
he was gonna kill us all, and
that’s when I called the
cops.”
Varvel said that Williams
then returned to his trailer.
When officers from OSP
eventually arrived, he was
still highly agitated.
“He went inside and pulled
a gun on the officer. He’s not
in his right mind,” she said.
“Then he threatened to kill a
bunch of other people.”
OSP reported that repeated
attempts to get Williams to
leave his trailer were unsuc-
cessful and, because of the
dangerous nature of the situa-
tion, SWAT was called to the
scene.
“After OSP detectives
obtained a search warrant for
William’s arrest, SWAT intro-
duced chemical agents (pep-
per spray and tear gas) into
the trailer. Williams subse-
quently exited, but was still
not complying with com-
mands and he was tasered. He
was taken into custody about
3 a.m. and transported to
Lane County Jail,” the report
said.
According to Varvel, this is
not the first time that there
have problems with Williams.
“We’ve called the police
lots of times but they won’t
come out here,” she said.
“The biggest problem we
have is that we are not part of
the city, according to the
Florence Police Department.
The ambulance and the fire
department will come out
here, no problem, but the
police say it’s not their juris-
diction.”
Sergeant Brandon Ott from
the
Florence
Police
Department confirmed that
his agency had taken the orig-
inal 911 call and transferred
the call to the Lane County
Sheriff’s Office because the
address of the call was out-
side of the city limits. Ott
added that the department
had units at the scene, in case
they were needed, from
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The charges filed against
Williams should keep him
incarcerated for the weekend,
but he may be released with
no warning to Varvel or to
other park residents.
“He will be in jail for at
least a couple of days,”
Varvel said. “I doubt he will
come back here because I am
turning in a restraining order
today.”
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