Sisters Sheriff's calls

Last updated 1/30/2001 at Noon

A deputy took a suicidal subject to the hospital. She was reportedly drunk and had ingested prescription medication saying she just wanted to die.

A 41-year-old Sisters man was arrested for domestic assault and harassment after he and his girlfriend got into it over thawing out frozen pipes in their trailer.
Beer was consumed. Bad words were uttered. The man allegedly pushed the woman and her 11-year-old son around. The woman allegedly swatted the man with a frying pan before running off to her brother's house.

A car skidded off packed snow on a rural road and onto private property. There was no damage, but the property owner was mightily peeved.
He allegedly blocked the truck and yelled at the driver to stop. The driver thought the property owner was "crazy" and tried to leave. The man allegedly reached through the driver's window, trying to grab the keys out of the ignition and cranking the steering wheel over. He also allegedly slapped at the driver and tried to punch him (but missed).
The driver banged on the hands that grasped his steering wheel and drove away. The angry property owner turned loose.
The truck ended up dented, with the door jammed and the ignition key bent. The angry property owner ended up cited for disorderly conduct, harassment and criminal mischief.

Deputies investigated a spree of bad check writing that plagued several Sisters businesses.

A youth reported that someone took his bicycle from his garage and went on a joy ride, damaging the bike. A deputy found tracks around the Village Green.

A deputy encountered motorists stopped in the middle of a local roadway. They had been towing a disabled vehicle until part of the engine fell out on the road.

A Sisters man was arrested on a warrant for harassment stemming from an incident on the ski slopes.
The incident occurred when a snowboarder allegedly rode over the tails of the man's skis, nearly knocking him down. The snowboarder tumbled down the hill.
The Sisters man allegedly skied down to the snowboarder -- a young woman -- and grabbed her, shaking her and yelling at her, calling her an idiot several times. Friends and family members of the girl intervened and one contacted the Ski Patrol, which contacted sheriff's deputies.
The man later said he didn't know the snowboarder was a girl until her family (rather emphatically) said so.
The Sisters man wasn't cited at the time, but the case was referred to the District Attorney's office and a warrant was issued.

A deputy checked a remote house north of town on a report of a suspicious person in a suspicious vehicle. Nothing was turned up.

A woman complained that a man continually speeds by her house.
He even allegedly ran over a neighbor's dog and never stopped.
When contacted, the man acknowledged that he has never got along with the reporting party. He said he didn't know he'd hit a dog. He promised to slow it down and try to be more neighborly.

Information in "Sisters sheriff's calls" is taken from log entries and reports of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office.