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Grants Pass Police jailed two people for drug and weapon crimes yesterday after a traffic complaint in the northwest part of the city. The Police Department reports officers arrested 35-year-old Christopher Aaron Trujillo and 19-year-old Annelize Paula Rosado near the corner of NW Hawthorne and Loughridge avenues on Thursday at 12:54 p.m.. Police said a motorist reported that he was nearly hit by a dark-blue Chevrolet SUV driven by Trujillo who pulled off the roadway. The suspect and his young female companion were passed out in their vehicle upon the arrival of officers. Officers observed a drug tooter with a brown sticky residue between the driver and passenger seats. Trujillo and Rosado were detained during a consent search that uncovered additional drug paraphernalia with the brown substance that later tested positive as fentanyl. Small amounts of methamphetamine were also found in the SUV and a search of Trujillo's backpack located a set of brass knuckles. Since Trujillo is a convicted felon, he was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for Felon in Possession of a Restricted Weapon, Fentanyl Possession and Possession of Meth. He was being held without bail. Rosado was jailed for Possession of Fentanyl, but she was released later in the day.

 

The Josephine County Sheriff's Office apprehended a man wanted on a statewide felony warrant while investigating a trespassing complaint in the Hugo area late yesterday. The Sheriff's Office reports deputies arrested 31-year-old Skylar William Jones at a transient camp in the 6100-block of Hugo Road on Thursday at 4:06 p.m.. Deputies said they received a tip from a Hugo resident that they knew the location of Jones and they were aware that he was wanted on an Oregon State warrant for Parole Violation as a transitional leave violator. The caller said the man had been staying the woods next to the railroad tracks by the old Hugo Hitching Post. According to the report, the informant told deputies that Jones had wandered onto her property and was screaming right before they called 9-1-1. Upon arrival, deputies located Jones's campsite and placed him into custody on the outstanding warrant. He was transported to Grants Pass and lodged in jail on a no-bail detainer.

 

The Josephine County Sheriff's Office arrested two people on outstanding warrants while investigating a trespassing complaint at Illinois River Forks State Park early yesterday. According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the trespassing call at the state park on the Illinois River near Cave Junction on Thursday around 7:40 a.m.. Deputies said 36-year-old Vance Lee Harris and 40-year-old Beverly Angers were going through private property to get to their illegal campsite in the park. They had been run off by another property owner for the same reason and were suspected of setting a fire in the Kerby area earlier in the week. Upon arrival, deputies found several transient campsites in the park before finding the one occupied by Harris and Angers. He was wanted on a Coos Bay felony warrant for Parole Violation stemming from convictions for Identity Theft and Felon in Possession of a Firearm. She was wanted on a Josephine County warrant for failing to appear in court for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants. Harris was transported to the Josephine County Jail where he was lodged on the warrant while Angers was cited to appear in court and then released. They and others who were camping in the park were given one week to vacate the premises.

 

The Oregon State Police arrested a motorist on an outstanding warrant yesterday during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 in north Grants Pass. OSP reports troopers pulled over a Hyundai Sonata driven by 49-year-old Jennifer Diane Angeles in the southbound lanes of I-5 near milepost 58 on Thursday at 10:17 a.m.. Troopers said they ran the license plate of the Hyundai and learned the registered owner was wanted on a Jackson County warrant for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants. After stopping the vehicle, they determined Angeles was the registered owner so she was placed into custody. Angeles was lodged at the Josephine County Jail on the warrant. Per her request, the vehicle was left on the side of the freeway for her boyfriend to retrieve.

 

Grants Pass Police arrested a "frequent flyer" for trespassing at a home on the west side of the city early yesterday. According to the Police Department, officers responded to a trespassing call in the 1100-block of SW Isham Street on Thursday at 3:13 a.m.. Police said the resident called 9-1-1 to report a female subject kept coming up onto their porch and ringing the doorbell. When the caller told the woman they were going to call the police, she took off running. Officers searched the area until they located 34-year-old Morgan Delin Weber. A routine records check showed she had been trespassed from the same residence in January of this year. She was placed into custody without incident. Weber was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for 2nd-Degree Criminal Trespass.

 

An Illinois Valley resident was critically injured this week when they were run over by a vehicle in Cave Junction. On Wednesday at 11:12 p.m., the Illinois Valley Fire District, American Medical Response, Oregon State Police and Josephine County Sheriff's Office responded to the accident in the 100-block of Cascade Drive. IVFD officials said arriving units found a person underneath a vehicle and crews attempted to remove the patient with extrication equipment. The unidentified person was eventually transported to Three Rivers Medical Center where the trauma system was activated. No other information was available, but the Sheriff's Office was conducting an investigation.

 

Grants Pass Police captured a man wanted for questioning in a recent assault investigation while performing a patrol check at an eastside supermarket early yesterday. The Police Department reports officers contacted 32-year-old Kyle Flury Palomino in the parking lot of WinCo Foods off NE Terry Lane on Thursday at 4:52 a.m.. Police said they spotted Palomino and knew him from previous law enforcement contacts. They also knew that he was a suspect in a recent assault case, so they placed him into custody. During an inventory search of Palomino's backpack, officers located a crystal-like rock that tested positive as methamphetamine. It was seized for destruction. Palomino was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for probable cause of 4th-Degree Assault. A charge of Meth Possession was forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for consideration.

 

Grants Pass Police arrested three men for drug possession while performing a patrol check at the SE J Street campground early yesterday. The Police Department reports officers found an occupied Nissan blocking the entrance to the designated campsite on Thursday around 3:45 a.m.. Signs were posted stating "Authorized Vehicles Only" and that vehicle constituted a hazard. Police said they observed three men identified as 54-year-old Matthew James Merideth, 54-year-old Andre Robert Fisher and 37-year-old Steven Carsten Juergensen inside the vehicle. They said all were in possession of either a white crystal substance later identified as methamphetamine or equipment used to smoke meth. All three men were placed into custody and charged with Meth Possession. Merideth was lodged without bail at the Josephine County Jail while Fisher and Juergensen were cited to appear in court and released. The Nissan was towed.

 

Two rollover crashes within 15 minutes of each other had rescue crews scrambling in different directions on Thursday afternoon. Rural Metro Fire Department reports the first incident occurred when a driver who experienced what may have been a mechanical problem with their vehicle crashed on Wildrose Lane near Cloverlawn Drive. Officials said the vehicle rolled over and crashed into a utility box, sparking a fire with the driver reportedly trapped inside. Upon arrival, rescue crews discovered the driver had self-extricated and denied having any injuries. The fire was very small and easily extinguished. Pacific Power crews secured the utility box. The second incident happened when additional rescue crews were mobilized to a rollover crash in the 5400-block of Riverbanks Road. Arriving units found all the occupants had self-extricated and denied any injuries. Evidently, the driver experienced a temporary medical condition that caused the passenger to grab the wheel. Officials said seatbelt use was instrumental in the lack of injuries in both cases.