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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015
SOUTH LANE COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889
VOLUME 128 • NUMBER 15
Help sought in
locating missing
CG man
I T ' S LEGAL
Also
inside:
T
Superstar
CT cast showcases its
pipes, page 9A
Kathryn Ballance
measures an order
at medical marijuana
dispensary Apoth-
ecaria Thursday,
the fi rst day of legal
recreational sales.
photo by Jon Stinnett
Recreational weed buyers fl ock to dispensaries
Fire!
Illegal burn earns a
citation, page 3A
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
S
tanding in line Thursday afternoon at the Medi-
cation Station, one of Cottage Grove’s four
medical marijuana dispensaries, one man shared a
common feeling expressed by many others — “I nev-
er thought I’d see this day.”
“I’ve been waiting for this day since 1978,” another
customer said. “It’s nice to not feel like an outlaw.”
he Cottage Grove Police Department is seek-
ing the public’s help to locate a 36-year old
Cottage Grove man whose family is concerned for
his safety.
Police say John Jarrell, who moved to Cottage
Grove in May after recently
living in Ashland, has been
missing since Wednesday,
Sept. 30. Jarrell, the father
of a three-month old, has a
history of depression and
reportedly left his medica-
tion and cell phone behind.
He has had no current bank
transactions.
“He is not a danger to
John Jarrell
the public, but I fear he is
a danger to himself,” said a
fl yer prepared by his family, which indicates that Jar-
rell is also bi-polar.
Jarrell is six-feet tall, with brown hair, green eyes
and a beard. He drives a white Chevrolet S-10 Blazer
with a damaged bumper and license plate VSF 329
or 285 GAH. He is an outdoorsman who may have
gone to the national forest in Jackson or Josephine
counties.
Anyone who sees Jarrell is urged to contact Cot-
tage Grove Police Offi cer Doug Skaggs at 541-942-
9145.
Disbelief at the ability to visit a store to legally
buy marijuana — a drug that became legal for pur-
chase at Oregon dispensaries at 12 a.m. on Thursday
— colored the comments of many customers, some of
whom were waiting in front of Cottage Grove’s dis-
pensaries before they opened their doors.
The gathered crowd prompted Apothecaria, located
on Row River Road and the second local dispensary
Jarrell may be driving this white Chevrolet
S-10 Blazer, license plate VSF 329 or 285
GAH.
Please see WEED, Page 11A
Roa charged with attempted murder after deputy shooting
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
Bridge worries
County bridge marked
as defi cient, page 8A
A
ttempted murder charges have
been fi led against a 38-year old
Cottage Grove man arrested in the ear-
ly-morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 26
following a shootout with Lane County
Sheriff’s deputies and an hours-long
manhunt.
Lane County Circuit Court docu-
ments indicate that Carlos Roa of Cot-
tage Grove was charged with two counts
of attempted aggravated murder with a
fi rearm and two
counts of unlawful
use of a weapon.
The charges stem
from a confronta-
tion with sheriff’s
deputies just before
8 p.m. on Friday,
Sept. 25 at a prop-
erty near Milepost
Carlos Roa
3 of London Road
near Cottage Grove
Reservoir. The Sher-
iff’s Offi ce reported that it responded to
reports of possible shots fi red there, and
upon arrival, Roa allegedly immediately
engaged deputies in gunfi re with an AK-
47 rifl e.
Following the incident, family mem-
bers identifi ed Todd Olson as having been
struck by a bullet in the fi refi ght, and Roa
is being charged with attempting to kill
Olson, Deputy Richard Glessner, Deputy
Joshua Mars and Sgt. Gordon Gill.
Roa fl ed the scene following the shoot-
out; he was discovered over six hours
later on the same property, reportedly
sporting a bullet wound and a bite from a
police dog from the incident.
If convicted, Roa faces a mandatory
minimum sentence of 10 years in prison
under state law. He reportedly pled guilty
to the charges against him on Monday.
Also on Monday, the Lane County
District Attorney's Offi ce announced that
it ruled the use of deadly force to combat
the threat faced by Roa to be justifi ed.
Patty Perlow announced that Roa had
been in an "elevated position" when he
fi red on the deputies
Shooting at UCC prompts security measures, benefi ts in CG
SLFR Division Chief, LMS counselors
part of response team
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
T
he shooting on the
Umpqua
Community
College campus in Roseburg
that claimed the lives of nine
people and injured nine others
Thursday morning drew the na-
tion’s attention within minutes.
It also prompted feelings of
anxiety and extra security mea-
sures here in Cottage Grove.
The list of partner agencies
that responded in the wake of
the tragedy is long, and while
this area’s fi rst responders and
law enforcement mostly weren’t
called to help, they were on
standby until it was certain they
wouldn’t be needed.
Based in Cottage Grove, the
Life Flight Network mobilized
six aircraft to send to a situa-
tion that was evolving quickly,
according to Chief Customer
Offi cer Justin Dillingham. A
combination of helicopters and
fi xed-wing planes were put on
the ready, Dillingham said, as it
was uncertain where the shoot-
ing victims may need to be
transported.
In the end, Dillingham said
Life Flight only ended up trans-
porting one patient from Mercy
Medical Center in Roseburg
(about a 20-minute fl ight from
Cottage Grove) to Sacred Heart
Medical Center.
“We didn’t end up having
a very big role, but we had re-
sources on the ground if need-
ed,” he said.
South Lane County Fire and
Rescue Division Chief Joe
Raade said the Fire District
was asked to put together a
task force of ambulances with-
in a half-hour of the shooting,
though they were informed a
short time later that the use of
the ambulances wouldn’t be
needed. Raade himself, though,
was asked to be part of an inci-
dent management team that kept
him busy dealing with logistical
issues until Sunday afternoon.
He served as a section chief,
arranging local hotel rooms and
meals for fi rst responders and
others, helping to coordinate
the busing plan for students
back to their vehicles at UCC
and assisting with coordina-
tion of the subsequent investi-
gation, though Raade pointed
out that he was not part of the
investigation itself. He worked
to prioritize equipment needs
at the college and package in-
formation that was delivered to
the many media outlets cover-
ing the shooting. On Saturday
and Sunday mornings, Raade
said he helped college offi cials
formulate a plan to reopen the
school.
“It was nice to be able to lend
assistance, to be part of the solu-
tion,” he said.
The most stressful part of
his response, Raade said, came
when he learned on Thursday
that a fellow fi rst responder had
lost his son in the shooting.
“It humanized the situation
for me very quickly,” he said.
Cottage Grove Interim Police
Chief Scott Shepherd said his
department sent a patrol offi cer
to Curtin on standby in case the
offi cer needed to respond to the
shooting. Soon, however, CGPD
realized it needed its own offi -
cers here to deal with security
concerns.
“Parents were calling the
schools, and there was quite a
bit of unrest locally,” Shepherd
said. “We had offi cers in and
around every school within the
city limits, and they stayed there
until the end of the school day.
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