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Sisters Sheriff's calls

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• Two women were reported overdue from a horseback ride. Search & Rescue was activated, but the women returned before they were deployed.

• A deputy rescued a border collie that was hanging from its chain.
  
  
• A Husky dog committed murder most fowl upon a Giant Black chicken. The dog's owner and the chicken's survivors will work out a civil compromise.
  
  
• Horseback riders reported accidentally cutting across private property on an excursion. The property owner allegedly followed them, photographed them and said that blood would be spilled if they ever returned to the property.
  
  
• A woman told deputies that her son accidentally started a fire when he touched off a spud gun using a paper towel for wadding.
  
  
• A retail clerk at a Sisters store reported that somebody stole her purse from the business.
  
  
• A Sisters area resident reported that someone tried to steal a horse from the property. Deputies tracked the suspect to pavement, then lost the trail.
  
  
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  A service station reported an airhose and gauge stolen. A spill kit valued at $500 was also taken.
  
  
• The same service station had a woman cited for trespassing after she showed up on the premises having been told never to come back. The woman and several other people are allegedly involved in a dispute with a service station employee.
  
  
• A burglar forced open the back door of a Sisters restaurant and made off with some $950 in cash from a register and safe.
  
  
• Someone shot up a local house with a paintball gun.
  
  
• A driver approached a construction worker at the site of the sewage treatment plant. When the construction worker asked if he could help the driver, the driver flipped him the bird, offered some expletives and sped off.
  
  
• A Sisters man reported a chainsaw stolen from his garage.
  
  
• There were numerous deer vs. vehicle collisions over the past week and deputies had to dispatch several wounded deer.
  
  
• Dogs are roaming at large all over Sisters neighborhoods, pooping on lawns other than their own, knocking over garbage cans, getting into traffic and generally causing a headache.

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Law enforcement personnel are becoming somewhat cynical about the responsibility level of local pet owners.

• A child reported that two men in a truck pulled up to her driveway and asked her to follow them. She ran inside an reported the incident. Deputies were unable to locate a suspect vehicle.

Information in "Sisters sheriff's calls" is taken from log entries and reports of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office.

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