Burglariesreported in Weiser
By Argus Observer staff
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:48 AM PDT
WEISER - A string of business burglaries were reported in Weiser recently but no details have been released to the Argus Observer by the Weiser police regarding the incidents. No press release about the incidents were made available to the Argus Observer Tuesday.
Weiser Police Department Chief Greg Moon did not return a call for comment by press time today.
In other police news:
— Ontario Police obtained a search warrant early Sunday morning and busted an underage drinking party along the 400 block of North Park Boulevard, Ontario Police Capt. Mark Alexander said.
Police received a noise complaint about the residence around 2 a.m., and located a juvenile who was observed leaving the residence. Police determined the juvenile had been drinking, Alexander said.
Five people, three males and two females, were issued citations for minor in possession of alcohol, two were 18-years-old, two were 17-years-old and one was 16-years-old.
Officers located alcohol inside the residence, and no parents were in the home, Alexander said.
Police arrested one of the teenagers, Amanda Cox, 18, for disorderly conduct and furnishing alcohol to minors. She was taken to the Malheur County Jail, Alexander said.
“These things end up as a stress on manpower. It started around 2 a.m. and ended before 5:30 a.m. We had to have people doing the search warrant, getting a search warrant through a judge, locating a judge, and maintaining surveillance on the residence to make sure no one was coming or going,” Alexander said.
Malheur County Sheriff’s Office deputies assisted with the case, he said.
— A 15-year-old from Ontario was detained by Ontario police and then cited and released to a parent Sunday around 6:30 a.m. for failing to perform the duties of a driver involved in a crash and not having a driver’s license, Ontario Police Capt. Mark Alexander said.
The juvenile was driving along the 400 block of Southwest First Street, because the occupants of the vehicle had been drinking, and she backed into a parked vehicle, which then hit another parked vehicle, Alexander said.
Witnesses to the collision told police the 15-year-old switched seats with a man in the car and they drove off from the scene, Alexander said.
Police located the vehicle on Northwest Fourth Street, and arrested the man driving, Reynaldo Valdez, 19, Ontario, for DUI, Alexander said.
The vehicle had traveled from Nyssa to Ontario, Alexander said, and minor damage to the three vehicles involved in the incident was noted.
