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The contents of the on-line edition of The Nugget represent a selection among the stories that appear in the weekly print edition.

Sisters Sheriff's calls

• A man found a handgun while hiking on Benson Lake Trail and turned it in to deputies.



• A woman reported her daughter missing -- a possible runaway.



• Deputies received a report of a rolling domestic dispute (that's where a couple has a fight in a traveling vehicle, enabling them to share their angst with others drivers in several hundred pounds of hurling steel).
  
  The couple was located in Tumalo, where a deputy determined that, while they'd definitely been fighting, it was verbal, not physical.
  
  The deputy "counseled" the couple.

• A man ran from deputies who tried to stop him for driving without a seatbelt. The driver eluded police on foot, but his passenger was not so lucky. He was patted down and cited for possession of less than an ounce of pot.



• A Redmond man collided with a deer. Bad for the deer and bad for his vehicle, which required a tow.



• A driver missed a curve and went in the ditch, then ran off and left the vehicle -- probably because he was driving his new car on a suspended license.



• A man called deputies to pick up an old revolver he didn't want anymore. His grandchildren come to his house and he didn't want the gun around. It will be destroyed.



• A deputy responded to a report of a suspicious car circling a closed gas station. The driver said she was headed to Portland that night and needed gas. The deputy advised her that all stations were closed and she needed to take her three drunk passengers back to Bend.



• City staff asked a deputy for some code enforcement help.



• A man reported seeing a woman sitting in a car by the road side "holding her head." Presumably it was still attached, since the vehicle was gone when a deputy showed up to investigate.



• A Sisters man was reported missing after he took off in his wife's minivan without letting her know. The man is elderly and suffers from Parkinson's Disease.
  
  Deputies searched for the man locally and put out a bulletin to other agencies. The hunt was called off when the man's wife reported that the man had been admitted to Lower Umpqua Hospital in Reedsport after suffering minor injuries in a single-car wreck.
  
  The man had driven off Highway 38, his car coming to rest just a short distance from the banks of the Umpqua river.

• Cows were reported on Camp Polk Road (again) several times last week. The area is open range and the cows want to know what you think you're gonna do about it.



• A man called to say that he is a paranoid-schizophrenic who is off his medication. He wanted help getting more. He called dispatch a short time later to say he'd found his meds.



• Deputies stopped and cited a man for driving on studded tires. Hey, it's going to snow any month now!



• A piece of construction equipment caught fire at the new Sisters High School construction site.

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

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