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Grants Pass Police arrested a man on an outside warrant while citing and excluding some other campers at Baker Park early yesterday.

The Police Department reports officers were patrolling the city park when they spotted 57-year-old Donnie Wayne Snow, Jr., and discovered that he was wanted on a Coos Bay Police Department warrant for failing to appear in court for Theft. He was placed into custody and lodged at the Josephine County Jail.

Snow was also one of four people who were trespassed from the park for 30 days due to ordinance violations. The others were identified as Kyle Palomino, Dean Smith and Ann Warfield. The violations included Scattering Rubbish, Buffer Zone, Misuse of Park Space and Conduct in a Parking Lot.

Warfield was observed driving carelessly at a high rate of speed and running through the stop sign at the park entrance. She was pulled over on East Park Street near Tobin Court. Her driver's license was suspended and she had no insurance, with no emergent reason to be driving. She was cited for those two violations as well as for Careless Driving and her vehicle was impounded.

Meanwhile, a large 10-man soiled and abandoned tent was found staked to the ground inside a park buffer zone. Open food containers, drug paraphernalia and feces were located inside the tent. The tent and other items were gathered up and taken to Southern Oregon Sanitation for disposal.