Update 2:30 p.m.: The inmate has been brought back into custody, according to Oregon Department of Corrections officials. An inmate from Mill Creek Correctional Facility walked away from a work crew near Salem’s Pringle Park on Friday, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections. Timofey Erofeeff, 29, was last seen[Read More…]

A Salem man was taken into custody at an east Salem grocery store Sunday after employees noticed him as a suspected thief and called the Salem Police Department. Franco Armando Moreno, Jr., 31, was pushing a cart full of goods at the Fred Meyer on 3740 Market St. N.E. when[Read More…]

Salem Police Department Lt. Treven Upkes. (Courtesy/FBI) For 10 weeks last fall, two local law enforcement agents went back to school. They went to classes every day, bunked up with roommates and ate at a cafeteria. No, this isn’t the plot of “21 Jump Street.” Marion County Sheriff’s Office Lt.[Read More…]

A Salem police evidence marker indicates a possible bullet hole from an early Sunday shooting on Aug. 18 on Northeast Pine Street that killed a woman and hospitalized a man. (Salem Reporter/Aubrey Wieber) Since offering a cash reward for information on last summer’s fatal shooting at a bar, the Salem[Read More…]

A Salem police evidence marker indicates a possible bullet hole from an early Sunday shooting on Aug. 18 on Northeast Pine Street that killed a woman and hospitalized a man. (Salem Reporter/Aubrey Wieber) Four months after a Salem woman was fatally shot in front a bar, Salem police are asking[Read More…]

An Amtrak train collided with a sedan Thursday morning. (Courtesy/ Art Witkowski) A train collided with a gray sedan Thursday morning in central Salem after an elderly driver turned the wrong direction on a one-way street, the Salem Police Department said. Two passengers in the car had minor injuries and[Read More…]

An 81-year-old Brooks woman died Wednesday night after her Dodge van rear-ended a truck on Highway 99 East, according to the Oregon State Police. Alex Kalugin, 52, was waiting for traffic to clear so he could turn left on Topaz Street when Dolores Sams hit his F-350 from behind around[Read More…]

A new portal on the city of Salem’s website allows residents to voice concerns about dangerous pedestrian crossings. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Salem residents now have a new way to express concerns about dangerous pedestrian crossings through an online application on the city of Salem website. So far, more[Read More…]

(Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem Reporter is continuing to publish monthly call data from public safety agencies in Marion County. This is a snapshot of October numbers compared to the same time last year. The data came from the Salem Police Department, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Salem Fire Department and[Read More…]

Police have identified Salem resident Rodric Kenyon Drolshagen, 72, as the man hit and killed in a crosswalk on Northeast Front Street Wednesday morning. Drolshagen was crossing the street with his dog when a black Ford Explorer hit him leaving the Riverfront Park carousel parking lot. The dog was not[Read More…]