Police search wooded area for battery suspect, Salem OR
AssaultA suspect involved in a battery incident is being pursued by police in a wooded area. Officers are coordinating their search efforts and using a drone to locate the suspect who is moving through dense vegetation near local parking lots.
Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch
06:25
Transcript:
(number withheld) is coming back for battery, so all (number withheld) as I ride on. (number withheld). Offa-19, he's asking for a better location in relation to mission that creek. like the city just crossed over the small creek uh still north of mission choppy given approximation how far north he is from this creek crossing on mission virtually 200 yards north of mission street you can actually look at your map and just put a pin on it and then send that image out. The 24th subject hunker down and some foliage (number withheld) lost visual on them. Everybody hasn't moved outside of the initial area. Correction, he's now on the creek moving east. (number withheld) are you directly above him? Number (number withheld), just about directly above. I copy the creek you're talking about. Is that the creek that separates the parking lot from the old (number withheld) in the wooded area or is this creek inside that wooded area? Creaks is the wooded area. He's moving to the east towards the I-5 off-ramp on the mission. I copy. And (number withheld), if you're still in contact with County, have Alpha-(number withheld) go towards (number withheld) right at the off-ramp from I-5. (number withheld) has problems with them. They're going back over towards the on-ramp. Like, (number withheld), did you copy that? A-Firm. 120 yards north of mission 50 yards west of I-5 off-ramp still moving to the south (number withheld), 140 yards of mission cross the north of north of north of I'll have Alpha (number withheld) work his way along the off ramp coming north, and he'll be able to get eyes on the drone, and it'll be easier to vector him in that way. Copy. (number withheld) we're working south on the left side of I-5 southbound and working south from residents in yeah copy if you see my patrol vehicle down here just past the exit sign he's basically parallel with me inside that wooded area (number withheld) if you guys use my drone as direction Just try to line up to my drone and Mission Street. It'll be south of me as he's moving south. And look at the drone again, if you imagine a 45-50 angle down to the ground. He's going to be about 350 feet inside me. As an angle straight towards Mission Street. (number withheld) can I get an updated location in direction of travel for up (number withheld) yeah he's still he's almost through the South Trail I can't see where you guys are out I can give you better location but where are you guys at? (number withheld) we're right by the along the I-5s right off-rams have not into He's moving right towards you, but he's about 100 yards north of you. But now he's turning around. So she's still kind of going, he's going back west now. Probably these haven't caught me. You're on a footpath, and that is moving back northwest. (number withheld) we're going to still push northwest from I-5 southbound if you want to shrink this perimeter down to this just this location yeah with as thick as that wooded area is I'm worried about him pushing out past our perimeter but if where you guys just went into the wood line if you start going west you should end up right on top of them that's what we're doing now Footpath, now he's hoping it again, going west, southwest. This footpath may lead to the underpass on Mission Street. In fact, the way the direction of he's traveling is straight towards the parking lot, straight towards for myself at (number withheld). Yeah, I copy that. I just put a (number withheld) over at (number withheld) as well. (number withheld) is now on a footpath going north running parallel to the parking lot of the (number withheld) and (number withheld). (number withheld), you'll be coming right towards you.
(number withheld) is coming back for battery, so all (number withheld) as I ride on. (number withheld). Offa-19, he's asking for a better location in relation to mission that creek. like the city just crossed over the small creek uh still north of mission choppy given approximation how far north he is from this creek crossing on mission virtually 200 yards north of mission street you can actually look at your map and just put a pin on it and then send that image out. The 24th subject hunker down and some foliage (number withheld) lost visual on them. Everybody hasn't moved outside of the initial area. Correction, he's now on the creek moving east. (number withheld) are you directly above him? Number (number withheld), just about directly above. I copy the creek you're talking about. Is that the creek that separates the parking lot from the old (number withheld) in the wooded area or is this creek inside that wooded area? Creaks is the wooded area. He's moving to the east towards the I-5 off-ramp on the mission. I copy. And (number withheld), if you're still in contact with County, have Alpha-(number withheld) go towards (number withheld) right at the off-ramp from I-5. (number withheld) has problems with them. They're going back over towards the on-ramp. Like, (number withheld), did you copy that? A-Firm. 120 yards north of mission 50 yards west of I-5 off-ramp still moving to the south (number withheld), 140 yards of mission cross the north of north of north of I'll have Alpha (number withheld) work his way along the off ramp coming north, and he'll be able to get eyes on the drone, and it'll be easier to vector him in that way. Copy. (number withheld) we're working south on the left side of I-5 southbound and working south from residents in yeah copy if you see my patrol vehicle down here just past the exit sign he's basically parallel with me inside that wooded area (number withheld) if you guys use my drone as direction Just try to line up to my drone and Mission Street. It'll be south of me as he's moving south. And look at the drone again, if you imagine a 45-50 angle down to the ground. He's going to be about 350 feet inside me. As an angle straight towards Mission Street. (number withheld) can I get an updated location in direction of travel for up (number withheld) yeah he's still he's almost through the South Trail I can't see where you guys are out I can give you better location but where are you guys at? (number withheld) we're right by the along the I-5s right off-rams have not into He's moving right towards you, but he's about 100 yards north of you. But now he's turning around. So she's still kind of going, he's going back west now. Probably these haven't caught me. You're on a footpath, and that is moving back northwest. (number withheld) we're going to still push northwest from I-5 southbound if you want to shrink this perimeter down to this just this location yeah with as thick as that wooded area is I'm worried about him pushing out past our perimeter but if where you guys just went into the wood line if you start going west you should end up right on top of them that's what we're doing now Footpath, now he's hoping it again, going west, southwest. This footpath may lead to the underpass on Mission Street. In fact, the way the direction of he's traveling is straight towards the parking lot, straight towards for myself at (number withheld). Yeah, I copy that. I just put a (number withheld) over at (number withheld) as well. (number withheld) is now on a footpath going north running parallel to the parking lot of the (number withheld) and (number withheld). (number withheld), you'll be coming right towards you.
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Mission St SE, Salem, OR
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