The Oregon State Penitentiary on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Two women who waked away Oct. 11 from a work crew at an Oregon Department of Corrections warehouse in Salem armed with a box cutter and heavy lock are still unaccounted for.
While incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Brandy Woodward and Shelly Radan each day would ride a corrections department bus with dozens of other women to a work location known as the “commissary,” where they filled orders for cafeteria food and hygiene items for people in custody at other state prisons, said Jennifer Black, a state corrections spokesperson.
There were 51 people in custody working on Oct. 11 at the Central Distribution Center in Salem where the commissary is located along with other work units, Black said. They are supervised by corrections department employees, who are responsible for counting them every hour.
Woodward and Radan walked away from the facility around 9:10 a.m. with a box cutter and a “heavy lock that could be used as a weapon,” she said. The department did not provide other details about security procedures at the facility or how the women were able to walk away from the unit.
They were last seen on Amber Street Northeast headed toward Dick’s Sporting Goods on Lancaster Drive Northeast, according to an Oct. 11 news release from the corrections department.
“We will actively pursue them until they are back in Department of Corrections custody,” Black said.
The department said in the news release that the women should be considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.
Woodward, 45 of Long Creek, weighs 145 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue T-shirt and a sweatshirt all with the word “inmate” stenciled in orange, the news release said.
Woodward pleaded guilty to two counts of delivery of methamphetamine and three counts of possession of methamphetamine over three cases in Grant and Umatilla county circuit courts, according to court records. She has been in custody since April 29 and her earliest release date is Jan. 14, 2024.
Radan, 43 of Otis, weighs 174 pounds with brown hair and eyes. She pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree burglary in Lincoln County Circuit Court, court records showed. She has been in custody since Nov. 3, 2020, and her earliest release date is Sept. 2, 2024. Radan’s previous name was Michael Price Crawford.
The corrections department’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the Oregon State Police are investigating the walkaway and asked anyone with information to contact the state police at 1-800-452-7888, their local police department’s non emergency number or the Fugitive Apprehension Unit at 503-569-0734, the news release said.
Brandy Woodward (Courtesy/Oregon Department of Corrections)
Shelly Radan (Courtesy/Oregon Department of Corrections)
-Ardeshir Tabrizian
