SOME TERRIFYING MOMENTS IN MEDFORD TUESDAY MORNING AS A RAVING AX-WIELDING MAN ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO CHOP HIS WAY INTO A SOUTH OAKDALE AVENUE APARTMENT AND ENDED UP GETTING SHOT BY THE RESIDENT INSIDE. MEDFORD POLICE RESPONDING JUST BEFORE 5 YESTERDAY MORNING TO THE 911 CALL AND FOUND THE SUSPECT, 22-YEAR OLD JUSTIN MOON HAIGHT, SUFFERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HIS ARM. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND TREATED. NO CRIMINAL CHARGES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AT THIS TIME. AT LAST CHECK HAIGHT IS NOT IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL. MEDFORD POLICE ADD THIS WASN’T A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE AS BOTH PEOPLE INVOLVED LIVE IN SEPARATE, NEIGHBORING APARTMENTS.
AFTER ALMOST 43 YEARS, JUSTICE IS FINALLY DONE. A MAN EXTRADITED FROM CALIFORNIA AND CHARGED IN THE KILLING OF TERESA PERONI IS GOING TO PRISON FOR AT LEAST 10 YEARS. 73-YEAR-OLD MARCUS SANFRATELLO PLEADED GUILTY TO FIRST DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. THE CASE DATES BACK TO JULY OF 1983 WHEN THEN 27-YEAR OLD TERESA PERONI WAS REPORTED MISSING AFTER GOING TO A PARTY IN THE SELMA AREA. SHE WAS LAST SEEN WITH SANFRATELLO, HER BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME BUT THERE WASN’T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO MAKE A CASE. IN 1997 PERONI’S SKULL WAS DISCOVERED AT A NEARBY PROPERTY. THEN IN 2024 JO COUNTY SHERIFFS REOPENED THE CASE AND BY 2025 WITH NEW DNA TECHNIQUES AND WITNESS INTERVIEWS THEY HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO INDICT SANFRANTELLO.
THE STATE WOLF REPORT IS OUT AND THEY APPEAR TO BE EATING WELL. 109 LIVESTOCK KILLS IN 2025 VERSUS 69 THE YEAR BEFORE AND WE’VE ADDED A COUPLE DOZEN WOLVES TO OUR STATE’S PACK TOTAL OF 230.
SCOTT STODDARD, LONG TIME AWARD-WINNING EDITOR OF THE GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER HAS OFFICIALLY STEPPED DOWN. RECENTLY HE PENNED A COLUMN DETAILING HIS ALMOST 10 MONTH STRUGGLE AND TREATMENT FOR AN AGRESSIVE CANCEROUS BRAIN TUMOR. THE DAILY COURIER REPORTS THAT SCOTT WILL SPEND HIS REMAINING GOOD DAYS TOURING JAPAN, THE COUNTRY HE LOVES MOST.