Sisters teen cited for endangering, menacing

A 14-year-old Sisters youth was cited for by sheriff's deputies after he allegedly tried to run down a high school staff member with a car on Tuesday, October 20.

According to sheriff's office reports, the incident occurred on a gravel road behind Sisters High School at about 4:30 p.m.

The staff member reportedly told a sheriff's deputy that he was behind the high school when he saw the youth drive by at about 3:45 p.m. The man said he had seen the youth riding a motorcycle in the area before and, knowing he was 14-years-old, had told the teenager he would call the police if he saw him riding again without a license.

The staff member said that when the youth returned at about 4:30 p.m., he was on the road and waved his arms to get the teen to stop. The youth then allegedly "gunned his engine."

"I had to jump out of his way or he would have hit me," the man told deputies. "He didn't even swerve a little bit."

According to sheriff's office reports, the youth denied trying to hit the man. The youth told police he thought the figure waving at him was another student "trying to make me stop because the other kids are always bugging me."

The teen told police that he recognized the staff member as he passed him. He said he did not remember the man having to jump out of the way and he said he would not have hit him.

The youth allegedly told a sheriff's deputy that he had built his car himself and his mother regularly lets him drive it from their home in Crossroads to Ray's Food Place. He told the deputy that they thought it was legal for him to drive there as long as he stayed off the main roads.

He was cited for recklessly endangering another person and for menacing. The case was referred to the Deschutes County Juvenile Department, according to sheriff's office reports.