WALDPORT – The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has some advice:
- Don’t get drunk and go trashing someone’s house.
- After a sheriff deputy takes you home, don’t call him for a ride back to the house to get your cigarettes.
- And, then don’t go calling 9-1-1 more than 20 times making false reports.
That’s what landed Timothy R. Swander, 39, of Waldport in jail Thursday on a long list of charges and bail of $442,500.
In a news release Friday, here’s how the sheriff’s office laid it out.
About 11 p.m. Wednesday, Deputy Jack Dunteman was sent to a disturbance inside a home on Southwest Southmayd Lane in Waldport. A woman had barricaded herself in her bedroom and said Swander was making a disturbance and refusing to leave.
Dunteman said the living area was damaged and that he saw Swander ripping blades off the ceiling fan inside. He detained him. Swander appeared “highly intoxicated,” the report said.
Swander was cited for trespassing and told not to return. Dunteman then gave him a ride to his home on Northwest Verbena Street, where he was cited for second- and third-degree criminal mischief.
Shortly after being released, the sheriff’s office said Swander called 9-1-1 demanding that Dunteman return and give him a ride to the house on Southmayd to get his cigarettes. Dunteman returned Swander’s call which went to voicemail. But the deputy left him a message that he would not respond to such requests and warned him about abusing the 9-1-1 system.
Over the next two hours Swander called 9-1-1 a total of 24 times, ending about 2 a.m. Thursday. The sheriff’s office said he was making false reports in an attempt to get a law enforcement response. Swander also requested medics, but declined care once they arrived. Swander was also warned several times by the dispatch center about improper 9-1-1 use.
Finally, early Thursday deputies returned to Swander’s home — this time to arrest him.
Swander is now in jail on the two criminal mischief charges, three counts of initiating a false report, interfering with a police officer, and 24 counts of improper use of the emergency notification system.