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The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is seeking tips to locate two female inmates who walked away from the Sheriff’s Office Transition Center on June 1st at 10:15 p.m.  Deputies are searching for Molly Terwilleger age 26 and Mary Wiseby age 29, both of Salem. 

Late Sunday morning a local bar and grill owner was robbed of money that is used to pay Lottery tickets after causing a distraction. Liz Resch, owner of the West Side Station, in West Salem, told Salem News Journal a man, about 25 to 35 years old, five ft. eight, chunky, with blue eyes, was dropped off in the parking lot from an older cream or gold colored car.

A shooting took place in a Keizer street today, with children playing all around, and sending one man to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.  The caller reported a shooting had just occurred in the 3600 block of Brooks Avenue NE.  

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, local dog boarding facility, The Dog Bark, was burglarized and all the canine guests were released. Responding officers arrived to find a shattered window and an open door. Nearly a dozen of the 26 dogs boarded at the facility escaped outside.

Salem Police Officers were involved in a shooting along State Street late this afternoon. After spotting the suspect SPD made every effort to avoid a car chase with him.

A man robbed the Jackson’s Jewelers in down town Salem of a $12,000 ring back on February 6, and the Salem Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the suspect.  He entered  the store at approximately 2:10 pm on that Tuesday, and  engaged the clerk in conversation asking to see several rings.

Albany Police responded to an armed robbery at Go Wireless, located at 1365 Clay Street SE, Albany, Oregon. The suspects forced a female employee to open a safe and took several large bags of an undisclosed amount of property, then fled the scene in a vehicle. 

Yet another robbery in Salem was committed at the Circle K store early Sunday morning by a lone suspect. After arriving on scene and setting up a perimeter around the area of the store police started a K-9 track.

A serial robber is still at large in the Salem area and the Salem Police are asking for your help. The incidents have all occurred later in the evening and in several of the robberies the suspect displayed a small handgun.

Four Salem Police Officers were involved in a on duty shooting following a dangerous incident in which a motorhome struck two police patrol vehicles. Sergeant James Welsh, Corporal Andrew Connolly, Corporal Mark Seyfried and Officer Pence Hodges all fired at the suspect during the incident.