Cenobio Jauregui, 37, is accused of repeatedly molesting a child under 14. He was previously a corrections officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he was promoted to corporal in 2021.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Polk County Sheriff, DA seek $4 million per year in proposed tax levy
The new levy would retain sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors hired in 2015 as an earlier public safety levy is set to expire.
UPDATE: SE Turner Road reopened to traffic
Salem police on Friday afternoon asked drivers to find alternative routes as the semi-trailer blocked northbound and southbound traffic.
Trooper justified in fatally shooting man during gun battle on I-5 in Salem, grand jury says
Felipe Amezcua Manzo pointed a laser-equipped gun at two drivers in freeway traffic and started a shootout with an Oregon State Police Trooper, according to a statement from the Marion County District Attorney’s Office.
Deputies find mail stolen from 100 Polk County residents
A Polk County grand jury has indicted three people on charges of mail theft. Court records show deputies recovered mail from 11 Salem residents.
DATA: Salem police arrests, use of force reports decline last year
The number of times Salem officers used force against people younger than 16 doubled in 2022, according to an annual Salem Police Department analysis of officers’ use of force.
South Salem homes hit in wave of graffiti attacks, police say
Salem police are seeking tips to identify the vandal or vandals involved in spray painting graffiti on homes throughout south Salem.
Teen charged with shooting at car in northeast Salem Monday
Police say a man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after the 16-year-old boy shot at a car on Northeast Hawthorne Avenue.
Salem police release account of fatal police shootout on I-5
Police say Felipe Manzo, 31, held a man at gunpoint on the freeway just before dying in a gun battle with a state trooper.
Person killed in shooting involving state trooper on I5, police say
The Oregon State Police did not clarify in a statement who fired the shot that killed the individual, who was not identified or otherwise described.