MEDFORD, Ore. – Late last week, brothers Jeffrey Allen Davis, 54, and Richard Orlend Davis, 48, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken to ten years in federal prison for manufacturing marijuana and possession of a destructive device. Cynthia Jean Davis, 49, wife of Jeffrey Allen Davis, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. This case resulted from an October 22, 2004 search by the Josephine Interagency Narcotics Team ... [full story]

Daniel Michael Wheatley, Sunshine Elise Merie Simmons, and Edwin Tolentino Garcia Admit Committing Internet High Yield Investment Scam and Money Laundering EUGENE, Ore. – Daniel Michael Wheatley, 34, and Sunshine Elise Merie Simmons, 28, both of Springfield, Oregon, and Edwin Tolentino Garcia, 41, of Vancouver, Washington, pled guilty last week before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan to Internet fraud-related crimes. Wheatley pled guilty to committing Internet fraud and to laundering money from the scheme. ... [full story]

State, county and local emergency responders in Oregon and Idaho were busy this weekend investigating several motorcycle-involved crashes, some serious, on area highways during the Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally based in Baker City, Oregon. Oregon State Police (OSP) Lieutenant David MacManiman reported that at least nine motorcycle crashes happened late Friday into Saturday evening. Rain and wet conditions on Sunday may have helped keep activity down. Some of the crashes included the following: * On ... [full story]

Oregon State Police detectives are continuing the investigation into the death of an Oregon State University faculty member who became ill while inside her vehicle on the campus Sunday afternoon and later died at a Corvallis hospital. An autopsy and toxicology tests will be pending to help confirm the cause and manner of death.   Prof. Elizabeth Sulzman About 5:20 p.m. on June 10, Oregon State Police troopers and Corvallis Fire Department personnel responded to a report ... [full story]

Attorney General Hardy Myers recently thanked the Oregon Legislature for approving Senate Bill 117, which authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enforce against violators of the National Do Not Call Registry in state court. “The federal government receives thousands of complaints each year from Oregonians who have registered their phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry with the expectation that solicitors will not call them, only to be repeatedly bothered by unwanted ... [full story]

--Raids on ten Oregon locations result in a dozen arrests, seizure of meth, marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy, assault rifles and other firearms, grenades, body armor, and $100,000 cash-- SALEM, Ore. - On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, State, Local and Federal law enforcement agencies served several search warrants and made multiple arrests, culminating an extensive and lengthy investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine and the manufacture and distribution of marijuana throughout the U.S. and ... [full story]

A 66-year old bicyclist was hit and killed by a vehicle that struck one of five riders in Washington County, Oregon on Saturday afternoon, deputies reported.  The driver was cited for careless driving, passing in a “no passing” zone, and driving with a suspended license. Washington County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the crash on NW Cornelius-Schefflin Road near NW Long Road about 12:15 p.m., June 9.  According to a news release, the group of ... [full story]

Deputies believe that speeding may have contributed to the deaths of three people involved in a single-vehicle crash in Sandy, Oregon early Saturday morning.  According to a news release issued by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, the resident of 45904 SE Marmont Road was awaked shortly before 2:30 a.m., June 9, when he thought his barn was on fire. Investigating the fire, he found a fully engulfed Ford F150 pickup that had crashed into a ... [full story]

Police have arrested the man they suspect in the vicious attempted axe murder of a Clackamas man last Wednesday. Geovany Mendoza Saucedo, 23, was arrested Friday in Yakima, Washington and is being held without bail on an attempted murder warrant out of Clackamas County.  Detectives investigating the case report Saucedo has a drug history with misdemeanor offenses.   Geovany Mendoza Saucedo - CCSO photo He is accused of attacking Bobby Burns of Clackamas in the Winco Parking ... [full story]

Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies raided a Colton, Oregon home on Friday and arrested a woman accused of seriously neglecting her four horses, one of which has died. According to a news release, April Punley had been investigated four previous times by the sheriff’s office for possible animal neglect.   April Punley (inset) is accused of animal abuse for allegedly allowing her horses to become seriously emaciated and go untreated for ailments. One horse died. CCSO photos Deputies received a ... [full story]