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T he C olumbia P ress August 10, 2018 Public Safety Calls Continued from Page 2 • Male having seizures, 3:43 a.m. July 30, 1000 block Northwest Warrenton Drive. • Male with cellulitis, 8:23 a.m. July 30, 500 block Southwest First Street. • Female fall patient, 10:03 a.m. July 30, 0-100 block Northwest Birch Court. • Male with chest pain, 7:34 a.m. July 31, Coast Guard Air Station Astoria. • Male with possible stroke, 12:26 p.m. July 31, 200 block South Main Avenue. • Male with difficulty breathing, 8:08 a.m. Aug. 1, 91100 block Highway 101. • Male with abdominal pain, 12:52 p.m. Aug. 1, VA Clinic Camp Rilea. • Group of children stung by yellow jackets, 5:41 p.m. Aug. 1, 500 block Southwest Ridge Road. • Male who’s too warm, 4:19 p.m. Aug. 2, 1400 block Southeast Honeysuckle Loop. • Female fall patient, 6:03 a.m. Aug. 3, 200 block Southwest Birch Court. • Female with alcohol poisoning, 10:32 a.m. Aug. 3, 900 block Southwest Cedar Avenue. • Female with abdominal pain, 11:55 a.m. Aug. 3, 1600 block Southeast Ensign Lane. • Unresponsive female, 2:08 p.m. Aug. 3, 90900 block Highway 101. • Female with chest pain, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 3, 1600 block South- east Ensign Lane. • Male with alcohol problem, 12:26 p.m. Aug. 4, 400 block South Main Avenue. • Male child run over by car, 2:14 p.m. Aug. 4, 90500 block Highway 101. • Female who’s passed out in car, 7:38 p.m. Aug. 4, 300 block Southwest Cedar Avenue. • Unresponsive female, 4:28 p.m. Aug. 5, 300 block Southwest Main Court. • Male with possible broken an- kle, 6:48 p.m. Aug. 5, 1900 block South Main Avenue. ‘Homeless’ man jailed after crime spree The Columbia Press A man who told officers he was a “homeless broke man” was arrested twice in two days on a variety of theft and weapons violations. Keith E. Myren, 68, first was arrested at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 3 after police received a call that he was pointing a rifle at someone near South Main Avenue and Alternate Highway 101, according to a Warrenton Police report. Myren was arrested the fol- lowing day on suspicion of pulling a knife on a Walmart employee and leaving the store with $1,000 in mer- chandise packed in one of the store’s shopping carts. He had been released from jail the previous day. The arrests stem from three days of problems attributed to Myren at various locations. On Aug. 3, Fort Stevens State Park reported he’d tak- en firewood from a campsite the previous night and gone from site to site asking peo- ple for marijuana, according to a probable cause report. Next, Uptown Café re- ported that a man matching Myren’s description ordered fessed to stealing the breakfast and left with- items that were in the out paying. Walmart shopping He was cited for cart,” Officer Chris- third-degree theft and topher Beem wrote disorderly conduct for in a probable cause the campground viola- declaration. The cart tions and for criminal contained a computer theft of services for the monitor and speaker meal theft. Because of Myren set, a rifle, a knife, wine the nature of the vio- lations, he was released from and camping equipment. “A Walmart employee had custody without going to jail. Two hours later, police re- reported being confronted by ceived a call from someone an older transient man in the reporting that a man was Walmart parking lot,” Beem pointing a rifle at him, ac- wrote. cording to the report. The rifle The employee said he’d ap- turned out to be a new pellet proached the man, who was gun still bearing a red string pushing a cart, to see if he through the trigger guard and needed assistance and found a warning that it was capable him tampering with a store security device on merchan- of bodily harm or death. Myren was arrested and dise. booked at Clatsop County Jail “Myren reportedly held up for unlawful use of a weapon, a pocket knife and extended disorderly conduct and theft. it toward (the employee),” He was released later that day. according to the report. About 11 a.m. the following He was arrested and day, a sheriff’s deputy alert- booked for first-degree theft, ed Warrenton police that the unlawful use of a weapon, same man was near the Clat- menacing and violation of sop County Animal Shelter the previous day’s release pushing a shopping cart full agreement. of what appeared to be stolen property. “Myren eventually con- 3 News Briefs Planned power outage is tonight The second of two planned power outages in Warrenton begins tonight, Aug. 10. The outage begins at 11:59 p.m. and runs through 4 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. The outage is necessary for Pacific Power to make transmission system im- provements, which should improve power reliability in the area. Saddle Mountain trail closes The main trail to the summit at Saddle Moun- tain State Natural Area is expected to open next week after a bridge col- lapsed. The bridge is being re- moved and a new crossing is under construction. The rest of the park, including Humbug Mountain View- point Trail, remains open.
