Police Locate Two Lost Hikers; One Goes to Jail, The Other Goes Home

OSP Senior Trooper Brown, Trooper Turnbo and Recruit Young responded to the park where they met a Marion County deputy who had found the missing hiker's car in the North Falls parking lot.

(SILVER FALLS ) - Two lost hikers were found cold and wet Sunday night by Oregon State Police troopers and a Marion County sheriff's deputy after they got lost in the Silver Falls State Park area. One hiker got to go home but the other went to jail after it was determined he was wanted on an outstanding warrant. At approximately 6:30 PM, Oregon State Police Northern Command Center dispatch received a report of two lost hikers in the Lookout Mountain area in Marion County. One of the lost hikers was able to make a cell phone call to seek help but he could not describe where he had left his car or their current location. The lost hiker was able to say that they had taken the trail to Lookout Mountain and was now on a gravel road, but any further communications ended after his cell phone battery failed. The troopers and deputy continued searching the area. At approximately 8:30 PM, OSP troopers found the lost hikers. The men were identified as 38-year-old Tony Douglas, and 41-year-old Shawn Shoberg both from Keizer. Douglas was able to go home but Shoberg ended up being transported to Marion County Jail because he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant for Fail to Appear in Marion County.

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Donna November 17, 2006 10:14 am (Pacific time)

You know...as I sit here and smoke this joint while reading what Al has to say I realize that I totally agree.

Henry Ruark November 17, 2006 9:41 am (Pacific time)

Kurt: Appreciate your open expressions, but they are "feelings" rather than documentable facts. Many millions share both sides, and demo-dialog via representative election remains best possible mode we have ever discovered to set things as near-right/for-all as is humanly possible. If we allow it otherwise, the fault is ours, not that of the system...as Founders clearly declared and demonstrated.

Kurt Huckee November 17, 2006 3:49 am (Pacific time)

Laws are made to prevent chaos or anarchy but are also used for lawmakers to justify their existence at the expense of the taxpayer. Lawmakers don't sit still because if they do and are defrocked and depowered, they will be out of a job. It is all about money not morals or values when it comes to petty stuff. There are too many laws...period. Law enforcement is needed but it is also an out of control business implemented by people who constantly break the law and look the other way for their cronies and family.

Henry Ruark November 16, 2006 11:54 pm (Pacific time)

Kurt: BEEN "off it" for a very long time...when are you gonna quit? "Petty" is always in eye of "accused", often allasame for "convicted" -- as any longtime court reporter will tell you...it's the oldest excuse there is, predates "the book"... except the Bible, that is.

Kurt Huckee November 14, 2006 4:42 pm (Pacific time)

Come off it Hank, You know better than anyone how the mountain of petty laws have grown to a point of paralysis. I was not talking about warrants for rape or armed robbery.

Henry Ruark November 14, 2006 11:36 am (Pacific time)

Kurt: Oh ! NOW I get it...you've got paperback full of this s...., ready for sale soon. Send ID so I can sign up for one...know just where to use it, too, page by page.

Kurt Huckee November 13, 2006 5:42 pm (Pacific time)

More people should ignore petty warrants so that we don't waste so much money on petty law enforcement. Don't spit on the sidewalk! Keep ignoring those stupid a** warrants. Jail is for the shareholders of Corrections Corporation of America so that they can profit from the new slavery.

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Police Locate Two Lost Hikers; One Goes to Jail, The Other Goes Home

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