Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 11, 6:45 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on the Central Dock property, 1100 N. Front St. Sept. 11, 10:35 a.m., sexual abuse was reported in the Coos Bay ar...
 6.2K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 123.0 State seeks execution for bank bombing
WOODBURN (AP) The two men accused of a Woodburn bank bombing that killed two police officers could face the death penalty. Marion County prosecutors said Friday they would seek the death penalty if the two men are found guilty. Bruce Aldon Turnidge...
2.0K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 270.0 Cheers & Jeers
This case was brief Cheers to the OSP Bomb Squad members for repeated visits to Coos County. These guys deserve thanks for keeping us safe even if Friday s alarm was a dud. Nop a drot, ossifer! Police, bless em, are out in force to catch drunken...
1.9K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 146.0 Cheers & Jeers
This case was brief Cheers to the OSP Bomb Squad members for repeated visits to Coos County. These guys deserve thanks for keeping us safe even if Friday s alarm was a dud. Nop a drot, ossifer! Police, bless em, are out in force to catch drunke...
1.9K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 146.0 Isham resigns as Marion County sheriff
SALEM (AP) Sheriff Russ Isham of Marion County resigned Wednesday as part of an agreement with the Oregon Department of Justice. In a statement, Isham acknowledged an affair with a woman who has no ties to the sheriff s office. This relationship, w...
1.9K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 146.0 March 2010 trial set in Oregon bank bombing
SALEM - A Marion County judge set a tentative March 1, 2010, trial date for a father and son charged in the December bank bombing in Woodburn that killed two police officers and seriously injured a third. But Judge Thomas Hart said he would postpone ...
0.9K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 123.0 Memorial wall in Salem will add four names
PORTLAND - The two officers killed in December's Woodburn bank bombing will have their names added to a memorial for fallen law enforcement officers along with a reserve deputy and a policeman who each died more than a half-century ago. Eriks Gabliks...
2.1K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 211.0 Chief recovering from Oregon bank bombing injuries
PORTLAND (AP) Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell is improving after he was critically injured in a bomb blast at a Woodburn bank last month. The 46-year-old Russell lost his right leg in the Dec. 12 blast which killed 51-year-old William Bill Ha...
0.9K - Jan. 18, 2009; scored 623.0 Grand jury: Bombing part of robbery attempt
SALEM A Marion County man with a background of financial troubles and his son were bent on robbing a bank in Woodburn when a bomb exploded and killed two Oregon law enforcement officers, says a grand jury indictment released Friday. The indictment ...
3.2K - Dec. 27, 2008; scored 731.0 West Coast Bank donates $5,000 to bombing victims
LAKE OSWEGO (AP) West Coast Bank has donated $5,000 to the fund for the two police officers killed in a bombing at a Woodburn branch of the bank last week. The fund also will benefit Woodburn police Chief Scott Russell, who was critically ...
0.7K - Dec. 21, 2008; scored 200.0 Hoaxes make community more vulnerable
The connection between fictitious bomb threats and real bloodshed is tragically circular. Just days after a bomb killed two police officers at a Woodburn bank, some adolescent mind hatched the not-so-original idea of phoning a threat to Marshfield Hi...
2.5K - Dec. 18, 2008; scored 218.0 Bomb expert's death leaves questions
PORTLAND (AP) By all accounts, Bill Hakim was one of those solid cops with plenty of experience and sound judgment who other police officers respect and depend on to make a tough decision, especially on the bomb squad. It makes his death in a bomb ...
6.4K - Dec. 18, 2008; scored 385.0 Doctor: Injuries in bank bombing like those from Iraq
PORTLAND (AP) A trauma expert says the bomb blast that killed two police officers inside a Woodburn bank caused injuries similar to the wounds suffered by soldiers in Iraq. Dr. Marty Schreiber, chief of trauma at Oregon Health Science University,...
2.1K - Dec. 17, 2008; scored 188.0 Police haven't explained bomb suspect father's involvement
SALEM (AP) Investigators are pointing to a father and son as the key suspects in a bombing that killed two Oregon law enforcement officers at a Woodburn bank. Two days after police arrested Joshua Turnidge, officers went to a farm in the rural comm...
7.8K - Dec. 17, 2008; scored 485.0 Police arrest father of bank bombing suspect
SALEM (AP) The father of a Salem man accused of killing two Oregon law enforcement officers in a bank blast was arrested Tuesday on bomb-making conspiracy charges, authorities said. Bruce Turnidge, 57, was arrested at a farm about 13 miles southwes...
4.9K - Dec. 16, 2008; scored 376.0 Oregon bank bombing suspect due in court
SALEM (AP) Joshua A. Turnidge s landlord calls the 32-year-old Salem man a hardworking, upstanding guy, a good tenant who refinished hardwood floors and did other renovations for reduced rent. Prosecutors were ready to paint a different picture o...
4.4K - Dec. 16, 2008; scored 1000.0 Arrest in bombing at bank
PORTLAND (AP) Many questions remain in the bombing that killed two officers and critically injured a police chief at an Oregon bank. But authorities think they have answered the most important one. Sheriff Russ Isham of Marion County, just hours af...
3.0K - Dec. 15, 2008; scored 327.0 Woodburn bank blast kills officer, bomb expert
WOODBURN (AP) A bomb blast at a Woodburn-area bank killed a local police officer and a state bomb disposal technician. Police said Saturday they had no suspects and didn t know the motive. That person is dangerous and needs to be found as soon as p...
4.4K - Dec. 14, 2008; scored 390.0 | 
