On July 29th, 2024, at approximately 06:00 AM, a manager at Safeway in Lincoln City called to report a white male adult who had first shoplifted and then returned to the store wielding two machetes. The man threatened the manager with the weapons. The suspect fled during the police response, leaving behind several bags. A Lincoln City Police Department Officer seized the bags and later served a Search Warrant authorized by Judge Amanda Benjamin to obtain identifying information from within. Information from that search, along with surveillance video from within the Safeway, led to the identification of the man as 41-year-old Joseph David Sanders, a transient male with arrest warrants out of multiple states. On August 2nd, 2024, local business owner Dan Clanton called police when he observed a man smoking what he suspected of being drugs on his restaurant’s property. The men fled as police responded but was located nearby a short time later. He first provided a false name but was quickly identified as Sanders. He had bolt cutters, 10 knives, and a loaded flair gun in his possession at the time. Sanders was lodged at the Lincoln County Jail on charges of Robbery in the First Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Menacing, Theft in the Third Degree, and cited for Possession of Methamphetamine. It is now left in the capable hands of the Lincoln County Jail and District Attorney’s Office moving forward to resolve the case.
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