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Sisters Sheriff's calls

• A deputy arrested a Sisters man for a restraining order violation after a traffic stop.
  
  The man and his paramour are back together, but they hadn't had the restraining order dismissed.
  
  
• A 17-year-old youth decided to quit the Oregon Youth Challenge diversion program.
  
  He called his parents, who reportedly told him he was on his own.
  
  The youth got scared in Sisters, realizing his home in Portland was a long way away.
  
  A deputy tracked down his parents at the Inn of the Seventh Mountain and delivered the youth to them. He also mentioned the issue of child abandonment.

• Deputies took a report from a Sisters man regarding a teenage girl and her friends breaking into his house and using it for a party pad.
  
  
• There were repeated incidents of cattle roaming across or standing in the middle of Camp Polk Road. The area is open range, as reported in The Nugget earlier this month.
  
  We're not saying the cattle read the story, but incidents do seem to have increased...

• A deputy helped an elderly lady track down her car, which she "lost" while attending the Quilt Show.
  
  
• Deputies served several arrest warrants.
  
  
• While standing by during a restraining order service, a deputy noticed that the man involved had a great horned owl carcass on his night stand.
  
  The deputy cited the man for unlawful possession of a protected bird.

• A Michigan driver's vehicle was struck by a Chevy pickup truck on Cascade Ave. The driver of the truck took off from the scene.
  
  
• A Sisters pedestrian was hit by a car while walking across Cascade Ave. inside a crosswalk. the man suffered leg and arm injuries.
  
  
• A local registered sex offender was picked up on a parole violation.
  
  
• A man complained that his neighbor's dogs run at large and pee on his stuff.
  
  
• A deputy witnessed a driver as he blew a curve on Gist Road near Highway 20, leaving the pavement and ending up on the dirt shoulder.
  
  The deputy cited the driver for careless driving and violation of his driver's license restrictions.

• A young woman was arrested for drunk driving after she drove to her ex-boyfriend's house -- damaging a planter as she pulled up, -- and punched the young man.
  
  The ex didn't want to press charges; he just wanted the woman to go away and never come back.
  
  A deputy took her to the hospital on a police officer hold, because her relatives were concerned that she might hurt herself.

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

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