Editor’s note: This report is based on information submitted by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. All calls for service may not be included. The status of incidents might change after further investigation. Locations are approximate and may not be included if it could identify victims of certain crimes of a sensitive nature (sexual abuse, stalking, etc.). Individuals are identified in the log only if arrested on felony charges. Juveniles are not identified. People arrested or suspected of crimes are considered innocent until proven otherwise.
THURSDAY, NOV. 6
• 3 p.m. — BCSO responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked on Bureau of Land Management property off Botkin Road. The responding deputy found a conversion van and determined the owner, a 57-year-old Albany man, was camping legally. The man was later issued a criminal citation in lieu of custody for a warrant out of Corvallis Municipal Court for failure to appear on an animal cruelty charge.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
• 12:30 p.m. — BCSO responded to a residence on Maxfield Creek Road for a report of a juvenile who had run away sometime that morning. The deputy found the juvenile at 2:37 p.m. walking south on Kings Valley Highway near Price Creek Road. The juvenile was transported back to the family’s residence.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
• Time NA — BCSO responded to a report from a 42-year-old Philomath woman who lives at an address along Highway 20 that an unknown vehicle had hit and damaged her garbage container.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
• 1:50 p.m. — BCSO responded to a single-vehicle crash on Summit Highway involving a westbound box truck loaded with food that went off the road when the driver, a 43-year-old Stayton man, lost control. The vehicle came to rest against a tree. No injuries were reported.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13
• 5:38 p.m. — BCSO responded to a crash on Kings Valley Highway near Labare Road involving a 22-year-old Philomath man who was driving a truck and towing a GMC Denali flatbed with a towbar attached to the vehicle’s front bumper. The incident occurred when the Denali’s front bumper detached and the out-of-control vehicle veered off the road and hit a tree. No one was in the Denali when it crashed. The vehicle, which was heavily damaged, was towed from the scene.