![]() ![]() ![]() The Public Safety Funding session was streamed on the City of Grants Pass YouTube channel at and it still can be viewed there. The City Council is hoping to come to a final decision on a plan in the near future. No other city in Oregon is using a sales tax in this manner and some people in the audience said a citizen referendum could be mounted to defeat it. While nothing has been finalized, the majority of the City Council has expressed its support for a 1.5% general sales tax combined with a $12 hike to the monthly utility fee. Questions from the public were answered by the staff and Council. Funding options were discussed, outlining the pros and cons of each option. City staff explained why more General Fund support is necessary to fund the rising costs of public safety services each year as well as the limitations of the current budget. Last Thursday night, the Grants Pass City Council held the forum to better inform residents about the public safety funding crisis and the options that could be used to close the gap between costs and revenue for police and fire services. ![]() Grants Pass residents who were unable to attend or view the city's Public Safety Listening and Learning session last week can still watch what happened. Kurt Krause was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, 1st-Degree Theft, Possession of Methamphetamine and Probation Violation related to some past arrests. The gun and drugs were seized as evidence. A subsequent search of his Toyota Sequoia located a 9-millimeter pistol with a loaded magazine and more than two grams of methamphetamine. Officers arrived on scene and placed Krause into custody. They contacted Met One and confirmed the aluminum had been stolen recently from their recycling bin. Police said an investigation determined that 38-year-old Kurt Kent Krause, II, brought sheets of aluminum with specific cut patterns to Cascade and workers recognized the sheets as belonging to Met One. According to the Police Department, officers responded to a theft complaint at Cascade Metal Recyclers on NE Industry Drive on Friday afternoon. Grants Pass Police arrested a man for multiple crimes after he attempted to sell multiple sheets of aluminum that he had stolen from another business to a local recycler. In attempts to locate the suspect in this case, MPD has released a photograph of the suspect in hopes that someone with information will call them at (541)-770-4783. Jesus Pena is described as a Hispanic male, 5-feet-7-inches tall, with black hair, brown eyes and a light moustache/goatee. He has warrants for his arrest and his whereabouts is unknown. Pena recently escaped from Oregon Youth Authority custody and has only been in the Medford area a short time. On Sunday, the investigation continued with three search warrants served at different locations as detectives attempted to locate the suspect who has been identified as 18-year-old Jesus Armando Pena, Jr. MPD detectives were called in and they worked the case overnight. The victim - identified by police as 51-year-old Justin William Keaton - was pronounced deceased. Patrol officers were on scene within two minutes and discovered a male subject with multiple gunshot wounds inside the business. On Saturday at about 5:50 p.m., MPD officers responded to a report of shots fired at the laundromat in the 600-block of Crater Lake Avenue. ![]() The Medford Police Department is seeking public assistance in locating a teenage suspect who is believed to be responsible for a weekend shooting death at an eastside laundromat. ![]()
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