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 726.0 Teens face burglary charges
Prosecutors say two 15-year-olds who got a 14-year-old drunk and had sex with her, had first broken into a garage to steal the booze. The boys now face burglary charges, but a plea bargain with the Coos County District Attorney means they won't be tr...
2.0K - Jul. 28, 2009; scored 559.0 Coquille man gets jail time in suicide
A Coos County Circuit Court judge has sentenced a Coquille man to spend 90 days in jail and three years of probation for the role he played in his neighbor's suicide. The Coos County District Attorney's Office determined Patricia A. Shaw killed herse...
1.0K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 654.0 Plea deal nets man one year in woman's suicide
A Coquille man pleaded guilty Friday to reckless endangering in connection with his neighbor's suicide. Ronald Wilson, 46, had been facing a criminally negligent homicide charge, but he agreed to plead to the class A misdemeanor in a deal with the Co...
2.5K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 720.0 Coos Bay man convicted of rapes
A Coos County jury convicted a former Coos Bay man of raping two teen girls. Jurors found Thomas H. Wilson, 34, guilty on Wednesday of three counts of first-degree rape, following a two-day trial presided over by Judge Martin Stone. One count stems f...
1.0K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 482.0 Coquille man pleads guilty to sex abuse
Both Coos County Deputy District Attorney Karen McClintock and Curtis H. Jack's lawyer John Trew recommended Jack serve 15 days in jail on his third-degree sex conviction. Circuit Court Judge Richard L. Barron didn't buy it. The judge said he wanted ...
1.9K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 696.0 Lab Band investigation done
North Bend Police Department has completed its investigation of the Oregon Coast Lab Band, but its report is sitting untouched in the district attorney's office. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said he had the report delivered to Coquille earlier this we...
1.3K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 488.0 Teen will be sentenced in Yamhill county
The 15-year-old accomplice in the two-person assault of a man on a Coquille street pleaded guilty last week to third-degree assault and other charges. However, unlike his counterpart, 20-year-old Aaron Pfannenstiel, the teenager won't be sentenced lo...
1.9K - May. 30, 2009; scored 577.0 Man gets jail in Coquille assault case
A young man accused of beating a 51-year-old Coquille man on a Coquille street will spend three months in the Coos County jail. During a plea change hearing earlier this week in Judge Richard Barron's courtroom, Aaron J. Pfannenstiel, 20, pleaded gui...
2.1K - May. 14, 2009; scored 619.0 Meth bust targets Hauser fire official
Hauser Rural Fire Protection District Board members were caught by surprise Monday when they found out one of their fellow board members, Stephen Dodd, had been arrested on drug charges in Springfield. The district's fire board met for its regular mo...
3.2K - May. 12, 2009; scored 809.0 Why such a lengthy lab band investigation?
Question: I want to know why it is taking such a long time for the North Bend Police Department to finish its investigation of the Oregon Coast Lab Band finances. The Department of Justice has completed its investigation, but will give out no inform...
2.0K - May. 7, 2009; scored 499.0 Teen makes plea bargain
COQUILLE - A former Marshfield High School senior will not face rape charges stemming from a March 6 incident involving a 14-year-old girl. Marcus Beckett pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree sex abuse in Coos County Circuit Court on Mon...
3.3K - May. 5, 2009; scored 648.0 DA drops charges in rape case after victim is no-show
The Coos County District Attorney's Office dismissed attempted rape and sex abuse charges against a Coos Bay man Tuesday, after a 19-year-old victim failed to appear for two grand jury hearings. Coos County sheriff's deputies arrested Michael J. Davi...
1.2K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 607.0 Stufflebean, critic debate recall
NORTH BEND - Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean says the men and women trying to recall him from office are an anti-development special interest group. Recall organizers say Stufflebean is a politician who sidesteps public process, as he did...
5.0K - Apr. 16, 2009; scored 946.0 DA files charges against former Coquille officer
Coos County District Attorney R. Paul Frasier has filed formal charges against former Coquille police officer James Bryant and his wife, Tammy Bryant. The district attorney is charging James Bryant with three counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor a...
1.9K - Apr. 16, 2009; scored 749.0 Brookings hires ex-Coos Bay finance boss
The city of Brookings hired Coos Bay's former finance director, Janell Howard, on Tuesday as its administrative services director. Howard has served as Brookings' interim director since March, following the resignation of Patti Dunn. Brookings City M...
1.7K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 583.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay April 9, 8:29 a.m., a window was broken in the 200 block of South Broadway. April 9, 12:13 p.m., an assault involving high-school age teenagers was repor...
2.2K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 499.0 Coquille officer awaits formal charge
The Coos County District Attorney's Office has not filed formal charges yet against the former Coquille police officer accused of providing alcohol to a minor and soliciting sex from another. Coos County District Attorney R. Paul Frasier said he is w...
2.1K - Apr. 7, 2009; scored 874.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay March 23, 11:49 a.m., possible animal neglect was reported at Wal-Mart, 2051 Newmark Ave. A 53-year-old man was referred to the Coos County District Atto...
0.7K - Mar. 25, 2009; scored 452.0 Judge eases restrictions on Coquille track coach
NORTH BEND - Coquille High School's former track coach pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she had sex with one of her athletes. Coos County Circuit Court Judge Paula Bechtold arraigned Wendi S. Boutiette, 36, on charges of second-degree sex abuse,...
2.7K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 761.0 | 
