Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon reports on April 9, 2021, his detectives arrested Gary Coomer, 48, of Sweet Home, for multiple sexual abuse crimes. Detectives started this investigation in August 2020, when an 8-year-old female child and a 4-year-old female …
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Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon reports Michael Ray Long, 37, from Junction City, was sentenced today after being found guilty in a jury trial on February 5, 2021 of 22 counts of sex abuse-related crimes. He was convicted for sexually …
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Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon reports yesterday at 3:13 p.m., his deputies responded to a report of a theft from a vehicle in progress on Knox Butte Road and Highway 226, outside of Albany. A witness to the theft had …
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Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon reports his deputies responded to a report of a Missing Person from the Sweet Home area. Jacob Riggs, 28, from Sweet Home, was reported missing by his family yesterday at 1:17 p.m. He was …
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Linn County Undersheriff Paul Timm reports early this morning at 12:18 a.m., dispatch received the report from a concerned citizen regarding an open cargo trailer in the 6700 block …
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Linn County Undersheriff Paul Timm reports deputies responded to a residence in Lebanon early yesterday morning at 1:35 a.m., after receiving information that Klint Wise was at the location. Wise is from Mill City and was suspected of assaulting another …
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Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon reports on March 16, 2021, his detectives served a child exploitation search warrant at a residence on Fern Ridge Road in Sweet Home. The search warrant was the culmination of an investigation into the distribution …
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Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon announces a test of the Linn-Benton Alert system on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. The test alert will go to recipients in both Linn and Benton counties that have signed up with the …
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Thank you to Anita from Lebanon for dropping off all the goodies. Our deputies will surely enjoy them. We are so grateful for the community we live in and all the support they give us.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office 9-1-1 Communications Center is hard at work this morning implementing our new 9-1-1 telephone system. With tremendous help and expertise from Noble 911 Services, a family-owned Oregon company based in Sisters (noble-911.com), and our vendor …
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