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The Nugget Newspaper
Sisters, Oregon
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Comments to
Eric Dolson, Publisher

Sisters Sheriff's calls

• A man was stopped for a missing headlight. He ended up being arrested for felony driving while suspended.

• A woman reported that someone broke into her car and stole her purse.
  
  
• A man reported that his teenage daughter slipped out of her house without permission late at night, presumably to rendezvous with her boyfriend. Deputies had no luck locating either Juliet or Romeo.
  
  
• Someone attempted to break into a storage shed at a Sisters business.
  
  
• Someone kicked in a back door at a Sisters business and made off with the cash register.
  
  
• A Sisters man was in a swivet over his neighbor's hot tub motor. Deputies have investigated this complaint in the past. They now must do so again.
  
  
• A man reported a bright green light in the sky. He was concerned that it might be a flare.
  
  
• A resident called in to report someone tampering mailboxes. It was merely local delivery of a newspaper. How bad can that be?
  
  
• A dog ran off due to all the excitement at the Sisters Antique Faire. He was located later in the peace and quiet of a retail shop.
  
  
• A man burst into a local business very irate and yelling that the patron's son had driven by his house and yelled an obscenity. The women at the business reported being very scared.

A deputy contacted the man and told him not to return to the business or he would be arrested for criminal trespass.

• A local transient earned two citations for trespassing after bedding down in places where he was not wanted.
  
  
• A man reported a possible fund-raising telephone scam using the Volunteer Firefighters Association as a cover. The man reported that the association headquarters said no fund-raiser was underway.
  
  
• A hit-and-run collision in a parking lot left a pickup truck with a crease along its side.

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

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