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-
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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.