Josephine County News

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — Josephine County Rural Metro (JMET) firefighters responding to a fire in an industrial building in the 300 block of Merlin Avenue on Monday discovered the commercial building was being used as an indoor Marijuana…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Grants Pass Police SWAT team arrested a felony suspect, 51-year-old Barney Clem, yesterday, who had threatened to kill a woman before fleeing into a nuisance house in a bright orange shirt. After a three-hour…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — On Monday, the Grants Pass Police Department arrested 20-year-old Kassandrea Sinks, a female suspect in a May 1 altercation in Baker Park that escalated into the victim being slashed across the side of the head with a…

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — After responding to reports of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 199, near milepost 35, in Josephine County on Friday, at 9:08 a.m., Oregon State Police (OSP) investigators determined that 37-yer-old William Robert…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass Police Department officers found and arrested the suspect in Tuesday's assault in 7th Street Park, 23-year-old James McClung, near Bakers Park yesterday afternoon. A man bleeding profusely from the head-…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — After a fire at the public “A Street Resting Area” in Grants Pass was contained on Monday at about 5:10 p.m., officers from the Grants Pass Police Department arrested Jack Doak, a 35-year-old resident of the resting…

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — After fleeing from a traffic stop near Fish Hatchery Road and Colin Road in his white van on Saturday at about 7:24 pm, 48-year-old Jack Conklin, who has an active felony warrant, fled to the east, where the…

Acting on a custodial interference investigation from the Woodstock Police Department, Cherokee County, Georgia, the Oregon State Police (OSP) arrested a mother, 32-year-old  Haley Noel Nelson, in the company of a convicted felon,…

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — The Oregon State Police (OSP) is investigating an incident of Tuesday, April 22, near the O'Brien Country Store in O'Brien, when a Josephine County Sheriff’s Office Deputy fired at 33-year-old Clinten Anthony…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — In a joint operation with the Rogue Area Drug Enforcement team (RADE), the Grants Pass Police Department recently seized over ten ounces of fentanyl headed to Grants Pass. According to the US DEA, depending on a…