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Black bag job steals from Cops! |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 11:07 |
COBURG, OR (OFP) - When it comes to protect and Serve, the opposite is just that, they become a victim themself's. Last week, thief's did an overnight black bag job at the Coburg Police Department, which is shared with Coburg's City Hall and other city department offices.
Police say someone broke into CPD last week as the burglary was discovered the following morning by a city employee around 6am, last friday, according to published reports in Thursday's Register Guard and local tv news stations, Thursday night. The brassen black bag job made off with 4 Motorola Police radios and equiptment valued at $7,000 per radio, more if you count the accessories, programming and batteries stolen, police say each radio is costly with the above equipment and ups the value to nearly $20,000, investigators said. That wasn't all either - 75 US Gold plated coins that were seized in a case last year and never claimed and their face value was unknown to investigators and officers of CPD at the time they were seized and stolen last week.
The Oregon State Police is investigating the burglary.
Realted Story here.
The Oregon Firepage News Staff contributed to this report. |
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AMW Fugitive nabbed in Oregon |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:50 |
 COTTAGE GROVE, OR (OFP) - The Cottage Grove Police Department became the nabster of this weeks talk of the town, when a couple of citizen reports spotted a wanted fugtive on the lam for nearly a year was spotted in the Central Lane County area last week. Suspect Michael Bresnahan, was spotted in the Sprinfield area, when a Wal-Mart employee recognized the Bresnahan from Fox's America's Most Wanted show, buying camping gear at the Springfield Wal-Mart Store, police said.
Meanwhile, Cottage Grove Police got their big break on Monday afternoon when a couple of alert citizens recognized Bresnahan after shoplifting from a Cottage Grove area store. Officer's from the CGPD canvased the area and confirmed with the store's security camera's that indeed that AMW's most wanted suspect was in their territorial waters and the hunt was on for Bresnahan.
Officer's were able to catch up with the suspect after he was seen walking along the railroad tracks heading back to his camp and a brief foot pursuit took place after Bresnahan gave up without a fight and was taken into custody. He remains lodged in the Lane County Jail on charges of being a fugitive from justice and burglary charges from his brush with the law back in Mass., police said. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:34 )
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North Fork Fire 50% Containment |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 10:08 |
GLIDE, OR (OFP)- A 450 acre lightning caused wildfire near Glide in the Umpqua National Forest is 50% contained. Recent cooler weather in the last couple of days has helped firefighters with containment efforts and wet terrain is making for muddy conditions on the fire line as firefighters have hike into the fire scene in steep terrain, some 26 miles east of Glide. Weather forecasters say dry sunny weather is in the weekend forecast and could make containment efforts interesting if winds pick up.
With over 750 firefighters on the fire line working the contain the fire, officials say they hope to have the fire contained Thursday, August 28th.
The Oregon Firepage News Staff contributed to this report. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 22 August 2008 10:37 )
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Gene Hughes - Police Call Author dead |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 22:35 |
 Gene Hughes was a pen name for Gene Costin. Costin died over the weekend at the age of 80 and left behind a legacy of tribute with his Police Call Frequency books that many scanner listeners in the United States said, "it was the bible of scanner listening", that turned the painstaking search for local public safety frequencies into an easier fraction of the scanner hobby.
Costin, retired after a 30 year career as a volunteer of the Los Angeles Police Department and a volunteer of the year award winner from the same department. Costin, made made scanning worthwhile with his frequency books, first starting out with California and later expanded to 9 regional volumes across the country, that were found on the bookshelfs of ever Radio Shack Store in the United States.
"Gene, changed the way we listened to our radios everyday and night across the land of this country, he was responsible for the most easy task we could ask for in a frequency book, that became wildly known to scanner hobbyists", Jeff Newton, owner of Oregon Firepage said of Costin, Monday when told of Hughes death. Costin's death is a legend of its own, he generousity to the scanning community was an asset, but his love for the hobby will not be forgotten. He'll be missed by all who knew him and his work in the LAPD and those who lurked the bookstore shelf. |
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COBURG, OR (OFP) Fire and Emeregency services units are onscene of an injury rollover mva on the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 just north of Coburg at milepost 199-201. OFP has learned one person has been ejected from the vehicle and a debris field on the freeway. More information as it becomes available.