Police Scanner – March 16 – March 22
A man trying to cash a forged check at Willamette Valley Bank in Keizer on Tuesday, March 17, was instead arrested for cashing or attempting to cash more than $10,000 in checks, according to Keizer police.
According to a police affidavit, a bank employee reported to police that a man was in the drive-thru attempting to cash a $2,300 check.
The man had deposited checks made out to himself for $2,000, $5,000 and $2,323, the affidavit said.
The victim with the bank account on which the checks had been written told police he had ordered more checks but never received them.
The suspect told police that a friend left the binder of checks in his car and that he “found the checks with his name on them.”
Lucan Hargraves Jr., 28, of Salem, was arrested for aggravated identity theft, theft of mail and forgery.
Jamie M. Hancock, 34 a transient accompanying Hargraves, was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Linn County, police reported.
•In other police activity, an employee at the Keizer McDonald’s reported an apparent drunk driver in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane just before midnight on Monday, March 16.
Lt. Trevor Wenning of the Keizer Police Department said the driver “was uncooperative and would not follow direction.” He said that as the driver was being handcuffed “he resisted by pushing the officers away.”
Police got a warrant to draw the driver’s blood at Salem Hospital. There, the driver “spat on the officer numerous times and interfered with hospital staff by being loud and out of control which required hospital security to intervene and help the officer.”
Teco D. McNeill Jr., 31, of Salem, was arrested for DUII, aggravated harassment and interfering with a health care facility.
MONDAY, MARCH 16
11:42 a.m. – Assault IV – simple (fel.) in the 5000 Block of Manbrin Dr NE
11:42 a.m. – Crim mistreatment I – simple assault in the 5000 Block of Manbrin Dr NE
11:42 a.m. – Menacing – use/display weapons in the 5000 Block of Manbrin Dr NE
3:45 p.m. – Assist rendered – assist EDP in the 5000 Block of Larry Ave N
5:14 p.m. – Burglary I – residence in the 3800 Block of Partridge Ln NE
11:47 p.m. – Driving under the influence of intoxicants -misd. in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
11:47 p.m. – Resisting arrest – dis. conduct in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
11:47 p.m. – FTA – bench warrant in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
11:47 p.m. – Aggravated harassment in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
11:47 p.m. – Interfering with health care facility in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
7:39 a.m. – Assist rendered – law in the 4700 Block of State St
10:14 a.m. – Criminal mischief II – crime damage in the 4800 Block of River Rd N
11:14 a.m. – Property – found in the 900 Block of Chemawa Rd NE
1:50 p.m. – Aggravated identity theft in the 5100 Block of River Rd N
1:50 p.m. – Mail theft/receipt of stolen mail in the 5100 Block of River Rd N
6:31 p.m. – Traffic accident – injury in the 4600 Block of River Rd N
9:11 p.m. – Domestic disturbance – non criminal in the 700 Block of Manbrin Dr NE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
2:59 a.m. – AOA – warrant served in the 4600 Block of River Rd N
6:19 p.m. – Susp – activity in the 300 Block of Kestrel St N
8:18 p.m. – Assault III – simple assault in the 5100 Block of River Rd N
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
2:34 a.m. – Drugs – unlawful poss methamphetamine in the 3800 Block of River Rd N
8:47 p.m. – Disturbance/noise in the 4400 Block of River Rd N
9:25 p.m. – Burglary I – residence in the 1200 Block of Jays Dr NE
9:27 p.m. – Interference with making report in the 1700 Block of Mistwood Dr NE
9:27 p.m. – Assault IV – simple (misd.) in the 1700 Block of Mistwood Dr NE
10:25 p.m. – Domestic disturbance – non criminal in the 4400 Block of Northside Dr NE
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
12:52 p.m. – Probation violation in the 5100 Block of Wittenberg Ln NE
3:41 p.m. – EDP hold – POC in the 3800 Block of Partridge Ln NE
5:04 p.m. – Harassment – sex crime in the 4600 Block of Tate Ave N
SATURDAY, MARCH 21
1:32 a.m. – Driving under the influence of intoxicants -misd. on River Rd & Sam Orcutt Way
3:05 a.m. – Susp – activity in the 5300 Block of Joan Dr N
6:20 p.m. – Theft II – shoplifting in the 6400 Block of Keizer Station Blvd NE
SUNDAY, MARCH 22
3:57 p.m. – Susp – activity in the 4100 Block of Cherry Ave NE
4:04 p.m. – Theft II – from motor vehicle in the 1400 Block of Lydia Ave N
NOTE: Information is provided by the Keizer Police Department. The agency has removed specific addresses.
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