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LAPINE, Ore. - On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, at approximately 5:30 PM, Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 153000 block of Derri Court near LaPine, on a report of a shooting. A local resident reported that he and his neighbor engaged in an argument and as a result, the neighbor shot at him.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A 43-year-old cold case regarding a double homicide in Klamath County has now been closed due to recently processed DNA evidence collected at the original crime scene in 1978.
Read MoreSPRAGUE RIVER, Ore. - On December 7, 2021, Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a lot on Skamania Rd near Sprague River, Oregon to check on the welfare of an individual. Deputies arrived on the scene and observed what they believed to be a deceased male in a travel trailer.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Due to the hard work of hundreds of people working on the Bootleg Fire in eastern Klamath County, Klamath County Emergency Management is removing all current evacuation levels for those areas of the fire within Klamath County at 3:00 PM today (July 27, 2021).
Read MoreKLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - On Saturday, November 7, 2020, members of the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Unit (SAR) conducted a day-long area search in an attempt to locate evidence regarding a person missing from Lake Havasu, Arizona. Reported missing in the summer of 2019, new information had been developed after a vehicle belonging to the missing man was located by hunters the previous week.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office has received multiple reports from people receiving phone calls indicating their child has been kidnapped and demanding a ransom. The reporting parties noted that they heard background screaming and other noise that they believed was recorded.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – “Be prepared” is more than a youth organization motto. It’s a theme lived daily by two Klamath County government departments. Emergency Management is a division of the Sheriff’s Office that seeks to build and protect resilience in communities. This happens by coordinating local, state, and federal emergency response agencies to offset hazards and prepare for, respond to, and recover from imminent or actual disasters.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - On August 17, 2020, Klamath County Sheriff Chris Kaber swore in six new reserve deputies who recently completed Reserve Academy training. Nearly doubling the number of reserve deputies in the department.
Read MoreOn November 10, 2020, Detectives from the Klamath County Sheriffs Office received a tip that, Shanadoa Wayne Johnson was staying at a hotel in Cowlitz County, Washington.
This information was immediately forwarded to the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office and Shanadoa Wayne Johnson was arrested and is being lodged at the Cowlitz County Jail on no bail warrants pending extradition for crimes committed in California, Nevada and Oregon.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - On August 12, 2020, just after midnight, Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call to assist Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office with a pursuit of a stolen Toyota 4Runner that was traveling north into Oregon. KCSO Deputies picked up pursuit of the stolen vehicle near the Midland Rest Area and reported speeds in excess of 100 MPH.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - On Saturday, August 8, 2020, at approximately 12:00 PM Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of shots fired at 4315 S. 6th Street near Grocery Outlet in Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - On Monday, July 20, 2020, at approximately 5:57 P.M., Oregon State Police Troopers and emergency personnel responded to a head-on crash on Hwy 97 near milepost 275.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - At approximately 5:30 PM yesterday evening [July 15, 2020] a wildfire broke out in the rough terrain above the lake on Spence Mountain. When firefighters arrived on scene the fire had already grown to approximately 1/2 acre.
Read MoreOn Friday, July 10, 2020, at approximately 2:30 PM Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Klamath County Search and Rescue teams were deployed to an area in Sky Lakes Wilderness in search of a lost hiker from the Ashland area.
Read MoreKLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Klamath Falls Police Department officers took into custody two individuals believed to be responsible for the attempted murder last week in the area of the 17000 block of Eagle Ridge Rd northwest of Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team members spent Friday, July 3, 2020, performing community outreach on Mt. McLaughlin. KCSO SAR members talked with hikers, distributed water, and helped educate people on the need to be prepared when hiking the area.
Read MoreOn Thursday, July 2, 2020, at approximately 2:30 AM Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of shots fired in the area of the 17000 block of Eagle Ridge Rd northwest of Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Oregon State Police looks forward to welcoming our Troopers involved in this incident back to work, including our Trooper that was wounded in the gunfire exchange.
Read MoreFORT KLAMATH, Ore. - On Friday, May 8, 2020, at approximately 4:30 PM Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies, were dispatched to a head-on motor vehicle crash on Sevenmile Rd in the area south of Ft. Klamath. As a result of the crash, both vehicles involved were on fire and fully engulfed. Fire and EMS crews from Chiloquin Fire & Rescue and Rocky Point Fire & EMS responded to this call outside their fire districts.
Read MoreBONANZA, Ore. - Wednesday, May 6, 2020, at approximately 12:30 pm the Klamath County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to an area on Panther Lane in Bonanza on a report of a missing person.
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