Police took a 32-year-old military deserter, described by the U.S. Army as armed and dangerous, into custody Thursday morning after a call from the Cape Perpetua Visitors Center about a suspicious person. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched at 8:24 a.m. Thursday to make a welfare check on a suspicious person at the […]
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Melee outside Yachats market leads to chase and arrest of Vancouver man east of Florence
A Vancouver, Wash. man is in the Lane County Jail after assaulting three people at the C&K Market in Yachats Sunday evening and then eluding police until finally caught on Highway 126 east of Florence. Kevin P. Hubbard, 45, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court on charges of eluding police, […]
Forest deputy patrols the gravel roads and timberlands of Lincoln County
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County Sheriff Deputy Nick Vaille is only a few miles up the Yachats River when he takes a hard left, aiming his truck up a steep, one lane Forest Service road. For the next three hours Vaille will rarely touch pavement as he winds along gravel roads patrolling public forests and […]
Mishandled handgun lands Yachats man in jail
Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 61-year-old Yachats man Wednesday, Feb. 27 on accusations he negligently fired a handgun with the bullet going into a neighbor’s house. No one was injured. Terry L. Davidson is in the Lincoln County Jail awaiting a pretrial hearing. Bail is $65,000. The sheriff’s office said it got a call […]