City News Letter

At approximately 1:00 a.m. Friday morning Officer Sallee discovered extensive graffiti in the men’s bathroom at the Turnaround. A short time later they discovered additional graffiti on approximately 100 feet of the Prom wall.

Around the same time Officer Barnes contacted two intoxicated fifteen year-old females and after citing them for Minor in Consumption asked Officer Sallee to escort them to their hotel and release them to a parent. During the Michelle Sallee, who had been riding with her husband overheard one of the females call the other one by name. She recognized the name as the one of the names spray painted on the men’s room wall and gave the information to her husband. Officer Sallee interviewed both girls and they admitted to their involvement in the graffiti and also provided information on two males who also participated.

A short time later, officers spotted a truck being driven without headlights and once it was stopped, officers realized the occupants were the males the girls identified as being involved with them in the graffiti. One of the males refused to talk with officers while the other admitted his and his partner’s involvement in the graffiti.

City crews were working to cleanup the graffiti this morning and the cost of cleanup is expected to be approximately $1,500. The two fifteen year-old females from Boring Oregon were charged with Minor in Consumption of Intoxicating Liquor and Criminal Mischief in the 1^st Degree. The two adult males were charged with traffic offenses, Furnishing Liquor to Minors and Criminal Mischief in the 1^st Degree.  Both adults are being held in the Seaside Holding Facility pending transport to the Clatsop County Jail.

Good job goes to all the Graveyard Officers.

Now for the Dumb Crook of the Week award.

Attempting to steal an unmarked cop car with sheriff’s deputies inside is pretty difficult, yet a stupid serial car thief thought, Hey, you know what? I think I’ll try to swipe this car.

Officers were surveying an abandoned car on Interstate 15 in Utah on March 25.

Deputies say that John Whitehead drove up next to said unmarked vehicle. Dressed in black, he then walked up to the car, carrying a flashlight while using it as a club, ready to break in. One of the deputies says that he waited until Whitehead was at the window, whereupon he pointed a gun at the dumb thief. What was the thief’s excuse for this? He wanted to see if the deputy was OK. However, a search on Whitehead tied him to several other abandoned car break-ins along Interstate 15 from Nephi, Utah, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

As you might expect, our serial car thief was arrested.