Crash kills man near Myrtle Point
A 43-year-old Myrtle Point man is recovering from injuries from a crash that left a local man dead Saturday near Myrtle Point. Lonnie E. Wilson, 43, town unavailable, died in the rollover crash, a Coos County Sheriff's Office press release said. Offi...
 1.3K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 526.0 Officer's crash blamed on a lighting system failure
Oregon State Police have preliminarily determined a sheriff s office cruiser crashed on TransPacific Parkway on Thursday because of a lighting system malfunction in the car. A Coos County sheriff s deputy was driving the cruiser about 2 miles down th...
1.4K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 517.0 Man arrested on assault charge
Coos County sheriff's deputies arrested Frank Sanborn, 59, of Lakeside Tuesday in the 500 block of Kings Avenue on charges of fourth-degree assault and domestic violence. The arrest followed a call from a woman requested medical assistance for injuri...
0.5K - Jul. 29, 2009; scored 429.0 Court date for horse suspect
A North Bend woman accused of abusing and neglecting 10 horses will stand before a Coos County Circuit Court judge for a plea-change hearing on Monday morning. Last week, Judge Martin Stone ordered that 63-year-old Bobbye L. Cikanek forfeit ownership...
0.8K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 429.0 Police chase masked ATV driver
A Coos County sheriff's deputy arrested a Coos Bay man Sunday, after the ski-masked driver of a four-wheeler took police on a chase through town. At about 9 p.m., the Coos Bay Police Department received a report of a man operating an ATV in downtown...
1.8K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 814.0 Searchers find Coos Bay man safe in Blue Ridge area
A Coos Bay man who wandered lost for a night and day in the Blue Ridge area east of Coos Bay is now safe and receiving care at Bay Area Hospital. At about 4:40 p.m., searchers located 42-year-old Richard D. Smith just east of radio tower sites on Blu...
2.1K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 780.0 Car ablaze in Charleston
Coos County sheriff's deputies and local fire agencies are investigating a Wednesday car fire on Seven Devils Road near Charleston. At about 6:50 p.m., the Coos County Sheriff's Office, the Charleston Rural Fire Protection District, and the Coos Fore...
0.8K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 599.0 Court delays decision on horses
Future ownership of 10 allegedly mistreated horses won't be decided until early next month. A spokeswoman for Coos County Circuit Court said public defender Allen Goldman had asked for more time to meet with his client, Bobbye L. Cikanek of North Ben...
1.5K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 643.0 North Bend woman arrested on theft charges
At about 4 a.m. today, sheriff's deputies arrested Karen S. Hollingsworth, 39, of North Bend on a Coos Bay warrant concerning charges of identity theft, third-degree theft and a parole violation, according to the Coos Bay police log. She was taken to...
0.4K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 414.0 Police arrest one on assault charge
Sheriff's deputies arrested a Myrtle Point woman around 5 p.m. Sunday after a report of an assault. Deputies went to a home in the 94200 block of Catching Creek and arrested Tamisha Anderson, 26, on a charge of fourth-degree assault. She was taken to...
0.4K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 385.0 Cozad had violent history
COQUILLE - At first their testimonies seemed shocking. But as more and more employees of the South Coast Education Service District came forward, their tales of unprovoked hair pulling, shin kicking, breast grabbing and strangulation at the hands of ...
6.2K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 551.0 Driver detained
A Coos County Sheriff's deputy arrested a Coos Bay man Thursday after a traffic stop on Coos River Highway. At about 11 p.m., a deputy spotted a man jumping out of a car in the middle of the road on Coos River near Ross Inlet Road, Sgt. Pat Downing s...
0.8K - May. 30, 2009; scored 653.0 Sheriff's office releases description in Lakeside mugging
Police are looking for a would-be robber reported to have stabbed a Lakeside man as he went for a stroll late Wednesday night. Police sent out a press release describing the attacker as a Hispanic man, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, slightly overwe...
1.2K - May. 29, 2009; scored 429.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay May 26, 8:48 a.m., someone tagged a men's restroom with graffiti at Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave. May 26, 9:12 a.m., an assaul...
2.5K - May. 27, 2009; scored 443.0 Sheriff's department seeks suspect
Coos County sheriff's deputies are looking for a suspect in the Monday assault of a North Bend woman. At about 5:28 p.m., deputies received a report of a fight between a man and woman at 67624 Spinreel Road at the Dunes Mobile Ranch Trailer Park in N...
0.9K - May. 27, 2009; scored 673.0 Deputies arrest one on weapon and trespassing charges
Coos County sheriff's deputies arrested a 52-year-old Knoxville, Tenn., woman Tuesday on weapon and criminal trespassing charges at about 9:25 p.m. Deputies went to 67450 E. Bay Road in North Bend on a report of a transient living in a tool shed on t...
0.7K - May. 27, 2009; scored 541.0 No quick trial for abuse case
COQUILLE - The exchange student who reported sex abuse involving Coquille businessman Curtis Jack will have to stay longer in the United States or make a return trip to Coos County if the case goes to trial. The girl had been living with Jack's famil...
3.7K - May. 27, 2009; scored 648.0 Exchange program reports sex abuse
Friday's arrest of a Coquille businessman on sex abuse charges stemmed from an incident involving a foreign exchange student. Curtis Jack is charged with first-degree and third-degree sex abuse involving a female teenager who had been attending schoo...
2.2K - May. 20, 2009; scored 385.0 Cozad's dad faces indictment
After spending about six weeks at the Oregon State Hospital, murder suspect Henry L. Cozad is back in the county. He's to be arraigned Wednesday morning on a petition for an involuntary mental commitment. According to a report from a Bandon psychiatr...
3.5K - May. 19, 2009; scored 634.0 Man arrested on sex abuse charge
Coos County sheriff's deputies arrested a Coquille man on a sex abuse charge Friday. Deputies arrested Curtis H. Jack, 53, on a charge of first-degree sex abuse after someone called police Wednesday reporting an incident of unwanted sexual contact in...
0.6K - May. 18, 2009; scored 517.0 | 
