COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL •
JULY 18, 2018 • 7A
Still no arrest in February ‘zombie house’ fi re
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Five months aft er residents
on Adams St. were asked to
evacuate their homes as a his-
toric structure burned near-
by, and six months aft er the
Cottage Grove City Council
took an out-side-the-box ac-
tion against abandoned homes
within the city, there still has
not been an arrest in the case
the triggered heated discus-
sion and calls for action.
On Feb. 12, a fi re broke out
on Adams St. in a garage struc-
ture of an abandoned house.
One of the city’s more notable
“zombie” houses, the property
had been left to fi nancial insti-
tutions aft er owners stopped
paying the mortgage and left
town. At the time, Cottage
Grove law enforcement ruled
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the fi re arson and noted a sus-
pect had been identifi ed.
The Feb. 12 fi re on Adams St. was ruled arson but no arrests
No arrest was made.
have been made. CGPD asks anyone with information to
Months later, the local police contact the department.
log listed an interview with an
individual who claimed to have
city of Portland foreclosed on foreclosure (and four others)
information about the fi re.
its fi rst house in nearly half a but it still left the city with
According to police chief
century aft er 24 years of com- more than 400 empty houses.
Scott Shepherd, the depart-
plaints and more than $66,000
According to county re-
ment has interviewed several
in liens against the property.
cords, Cottage Grove had 10
persons of interest but did not
A code change that allowed foreclosed homes at the time
garner enough for an arrest.
homes to be sold for market of the fi re but that number did
Zombie houses have become
value, rather than the total cost not include homes that hadn't
a national nuisance with local
of the liens, was cited as the begun the offi cial foreclosure
governments scrambling to
driving factor in the home’s process but had already been
fi nd a solution. In 2016, the
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SHOOTING from A1
sheriff ’s offi ce, Loop eventually
exited the building at approxi-
mately 3:45 a.m. and engaged
deputies with a fi rearm. Two
deputies returned fi re and
struck Loop. He was transport-
ed to the hospital for a medical
evaluation where he later died.
“Th e use of deadly force by
law a law enforcement offi cer
in Lane County is investigated
by the Lane County Interagen-
cy Deadly Force Investigation
Team,” the agency said.
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abandoned by homeowners,
making it diffi cult to pinpoint
exactly how many of these
homes fell into the zombie
home category.
In 2017, Lane County sent
15 empty homes in Cottage
Grove up for auction.
“People could be living in
them just like you or I live in
them, taking care of them and
so it’s not a problem. We fi nd
out when it’s a problem,” Mey-
ers told the council in Novem-
ber.
Just a week before the fi re on
Adams St., the Cottage Grove
City Council voted to allow
the city to begin addressing the
source of the Feb. 12 fi re. In a
tangled, out-of-the-box ap-
proach, city offi cials managed
to take possession of another
zombie home on Sixth Street
and relayed their success to
the council that fi nally, there
seemed to be a path to alleviat-
ing the problem that had begun
popping up shortly aft er the
2007 fi nancial crisis.
Meyers told Th e Sentinel in
February that he planned to
bill the responsible party for
the cost of the fi re.
Cottage Grove authorities
are asking that anyone with
information about the Feb. 12
fi re to contact Offi ce Steven
Biehler at 541-942-9145 ext.
227 or sbiehler@cgpolice.org.
Th e deputies have reported
on injuries and were placed on
administrative leave.
Th e shooting is still under
investigation.
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