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Del Norte County Jail Inmate Found Dead
Correctional Officers at the Del Norte County Jail found 33-year-old inmate, Jason Vincent Proctor, unresponsive in his cell late Wednesday night, July 31st.
Life-saving efforts were initiated by correctional staff and continued by responding emergency...
Eviction Turns Into 2 Hr. Stand-Off in Crescent City
At about 10:00 am Thursday morning. August 1st, the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office was attempting to carry out an eviction at 1811 Northcrest Drive, space #25. The individual inside made threats indicating he...
Full Closure of 197 With 199 Detour Available
Beginning Monday, August 5th, Route 197 north of Crescent City in Del Norte County will be fully closed from about 2.8 to 3.2 miles from the 101 junction from August 5 through August 15.
Necessary...
1,000 Marijuana Plants and butane honey oil Lab Seized
On the morning of Tuesday, July 30, Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team detectives served a search warrant at a property in the 900-block of Upper River Road. A second search warrant was served at a...
3 Coast Guard Vessels Need 24 Hrs. to Rescue Fishing Vessel
Coast Guard crew members aboard three separate vessels rescued a 50-foot commercial fishing vessel disabled 116 miles west of Newport Wednesday.
The 41-ton vessel, Ruby Lily, which reported 6 tons of albacore tuna and three...
Air Quality Advisory thru Thursday
Smoke from the Milepost 97 fire will continue to push south and southeast into portions of Josephine and Jackson County in the late afternoons and evenings with widespread light to moderate smoke during the...
Man Accused of Deliberately Transmitting STD’s
James Allen Propes of Gold Beach, Oregon, was taken into custody by Curry County Sheriff’s Deputies last Thursday, July 25th. The arrest stemmed from a complaint received by the Curry County Sheriff's Office months...
Citations Issued for After Kittens Abandoned
Last Thursday evening, July 25th, Curry County Sheriff John Ward went on social media asking the community to help identify who had dropped off three kittens about 7 to 8 weeks old on the...
Lucky 3 For 1 Drug Bust Yields Large Amounts of Drugs
On July 17th, 2019, Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Detectives executed a search warrant regarding a drug investigation in Grants Pass. The subject of the investigation/search warrant was Robert Goodlette.
Due to information that Goodlette possessed...
Truck Crash Closes Hwy. 199
Just after 7:30am Monday morning, the Illinois Valley Fire District and American Medical Response, responded to a flatbed truck crash on Hwy. 199 near Wild Park Ln.
The flatbed was hauling a pickup truck when...