Douglas County News

The Douglas Inter-Agency Narcotics Team (DINT) arrested a felon in possession of suspected drugs and an illegal firearm during a traffic stop on the I-5 Interstate in Glendale on Thursday afternoon. Bobby Hogue (34) of Riddle was…

A convicted felon who is now allowed to own firearms has been charged with allegedly accidentally shooting a 13-year-old boy in Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Cory Albert (44) told deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that as he shot…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — A Roseburg dog training company owner has been sentenced to more than three years in Douglas County Jail after pleading no contest to two charges of first-degree animal neglect. Haden Dorsey (45) was investigated by the…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — The search for a Roseburg man, Terry Eugene Kruh, 63, ended on Thursday, April 10 when a friend, who was one of the searchers, found the body of Kruh and his motorcycle crashed in the 6600 block of Roberts Creek Road in…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — After evading police by hiding under a bridge, a 26-year-old Roseburg man wanted by his parole officer was detained by Eros, a 5.5-year-old German Shepherd K9 officer attached to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office (DCSO),…

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — A two-vehicle crash east of Sutherlin on Wednesday evening left two 17-year-olds critically injured after pulling into the path of a 2001 Ford F-250 pickup towing an excavator on a flatbed trailer. Responding to…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — An adult in custody, 24-year-old Alexander Matthew Pearson of Reedsport, was returned to custody on Friday shortly after he had fled a Douglas County Circuit Court courtroom following his probation violation hearing that…

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — An alleged shoplifter who stabbed an employee of the Dollar General Store in Winston on Friday afternoon was ‘bumped’ off his bicycle by a police vehicle and then tasered by the arresting officer who believed the…

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — Skiing on Mt. Bailey in a remote area of the Diamond Lake resort turned into a nightmare for a group of skiers when an avalanche buried 50-year-old Brian Thomas Roberts of Bend, who died from his injuries. Roberts,…

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO)  arrested a 55-year-old Wolf Creek man, Ian Anthony Fleming, on charges of second-degree manslaughter after his 11-year-old daughter died when his pickup truck crashed on…