MAY 11

METH: 1:15 p.m., 19th Street and West Hills Road, Philomath. Deputy stopped a car for a traffic violation and found the passenger in the car, 33-year-old John Allen Cessnun of 264 Bennett Lane, Blodgett, had warrants out for his arrest from Linn County. Cessnun told deputies he'd just gotten out of Alaska State Prison three days earlier and didn't understand how he could have warrants. During the arrest, the driver, 51-year-old Patrick Michael Cessnun of the same address, gave deputies permission to check the car, and inside it they found a scale, syringes, baggies of meth, a brown substance that appeared to be heroin, drug records, a calculator and other drug paraphernalia. Patrick Cessnun was arrested on drug possession and manufacture/delivery charges.

ROLLOVER: 3:40 p.m., Independence Highway at Palestine Avenue. Cambria Joy Cloud, 18, of Albany, was driving a white 1991 Toyota utility vehicle when she apparently left the roadway at a culvert, causing the truck to roll over twice. She had minor injuries.

SWITCHEROO: 4:35 p.m., 1500 block Northwest Kings Boulevard. A woman reported she parked her bike outside the church; someone stole it and left another bicycle in its place.

MAY 12

SORRY, WRONG HOUSE: 5:20 a.m., 200 block Northwest 17th Street. Citizen reported he'd found in his living room a drunken college student who'd wandered in through the unlocked front door. Officer responded and talked to the student, who reeked of alcohol and had urinated on himself. He apparently had thought he was wandering into a friend's residence. Officer gave him a warning for trespassing and drove him home to his fraternity.

BIKING WHILE BLITZED: 9:09 a.m., 200 block Northwest 53rd Street. Citizen called police to report a drunken man staggering around and speaking with a heavy slur, who appeared to be lost and was missing a shoe. The man then got on a bicycle, launched himself toward 53rd Street, crashed in the parking lot, got back on and pedaled away. A deputy responded and found the man making his way toward the fairgrounds on 53rd, in the middle of the roadway; northbound traffic was slowing down for him, and at one point a car stopped to avoid hitting him. Then he fell over, crashing in the middle of the road. As the deputy got out of his car, the man got back on the bike, launched it toward the sidewalk and crashed again on the sidewalk, falling into some bushes. The deputy asked the man what he was doing, and he said he was trying to spend some time with his kids. The deputy asked where the kids were, and he replied that he was bi-polar. After a short conversation, the deputy called an ambulance, which took the man to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. The 48-year-old Corvallis man was later cited for disorderly conduct.

STASH FOUND: 11:35 a.m., 16900 block Salmonberry Road, Alsea. Benton County Parks employee was spraying grass around the park when he saw an old file container on the bank near the Alsea River; inside, he saw drug paraphernalia, so he called police. Deputy investigated and found there was a marijuana pipe, bong, glass container with a cork, Altoids tin with pipe fittings, a 35mm-film canister with marijuana seeds inside and several marijuana buds. All was seized and destroyed.

FIRE RADIO STOLEN: 12:47 p.m., 23300 block Hoskins Road, Philomath. Volunteer firefighter reported his F-350 had been broken into and the Motorola HT 750 Emergency Services Radio, belonging to the Kings Valley Fire Department, was stolen. It was worth $1,500.

DOMESTIC ASSAULT: 6 p.m., Northwest Circle Boulevard. A 39-year-old Corvallis man was arrested on misdemeanor domestic assault charges after he grabbed his wife's forearm during an argument and squeezed it so tight he left two large bruises.

THEFT ARREST AT 13: 6:06 p.m., 200 block South Fifth Street, Monroe. An employee at a tavern caught a 13-year-old Monroe boy breaking into a car; a deputy came and arrested the boy for unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.

Compiled from police and fire reports by Gazette-Times reporter Finn J. John, who can be reached at 758-9530 or finn.john@lee.net.