News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Police arrested a Springfield woman wanted on a robbery warrant after she was allegedly caught shoplifting at Ray's Food Place on Friday, September 26.
A Ray's security officer confronted Iris Marie Walker, 27, outside the store after he allegedly spotted her shoplifting. According to police, she fought him trying to get away, and someone called police thinking the scuffle was a domestic fight.
Walker allegedly gave a false name to Sisters Police and claimed her identification was at her camp at Indian Ford Campground. Police took her to the campground but were unable to find her belongings. According to police, she told officers her friend named Ed must have taken them.
"Ed" was reportedly driving a blue car.
Police drove past Circle 5 RV Park while taking the woman to jail. According to police, the woman "became hysterical, shouting and screaming unintelligible things and pointing at the RV park."
Police stopped and spotted a blue car at the park and a man in a black duster removing things from the vehicle.
According to police, a check on the vehicle indicated it was stolen out of Springfield. The man, calling himself Timothy Strainger, identified Walker, and police discovered that she had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a second-degree robbery charge.
Police allegedly discovered that "Timothy Strainger" was a false name and that the man, Edward Granger, had two warrants outstanding for probation violation.
Police arrested Granger on the warrants and for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and giving false information to a police officer.
Knowing Walker's true identity, police took Walker to jail where she was lodged on charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, giving false information to a police officer, third degree theft and robbery and the outstanding second-degree robbery warrant from Eugene. Police inventoried the car and allegedly discovered a Smith & Wesson Model 15 .38 Special revolver, various drug paraphernalia and a baggie contaning white powder.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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