Thursday 3 September 2009

Arrest made in park bomb threat


Roseburg Police have arrested a man in link with a local bomb threat that interrupted the Music on the Half Shell concert Aug. 11.Phillip M. Ogrinc, 45, who police report as a local transient, was arrested at 3:15 p.m. today without incident in Charles Gardiner Park in Roseburg, according to a Police Department report departure. Detectives obtained phone records for the phone used to place the original 911 call reporting the bomb, the departure said. The phone records showed several calls to phone numbers in the Roseburg area. Detectives linked some of the call receiver and were able to determine Ogrinc was allegedly responsible for the bomb threat call.This afternoon, Sgt. Aaron Dunbar with the Roseburg Police Department, said Ogrinc made no statement as to why he allegedly made the bomb threat during the performance of folk singer Jonatha Brooke.According to previous police reports, the caller had said the bomb was live and was in a tank near the restrooms at a park and would go off in 17 minutes if the park wasn't absolved. After police received the call, they evacuated Stewart Park, cutting the concert short. As the caller hadn't said which park the bomb was in, authorities also evacuated Riverbend Park in Winston and all parks in Sutherlin.Ogrinc has been lodged at the Douglas County Jail on charges of first degree jumbled conduct and wrong use of an emergency reporting system. Both crimes are Class A misdemeanors and each carries a potential sentence of one year in jail.Dunbar said Ogrinc has a previous arrest record in Douglas County, although he didn't know inside information. The photo supplied by the Police Department was taken in 2005.