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Grants Pass Police jailed a man on statewide and local felony warrants as well as for weapons crimes after he was caught looking into vehicles at a northeast-city apartment complex.

The Police Department reports officers arrested 44-year-old Eric Wayne Beck at Taser point in the 1800-block of NE Fairview Avenue on Friday around 8 p.m..

Police said at least one resident of the Fairview apartments reported a male subject on a bicycle kept coming onto the property and looking inside parked vehicles. The caller believed the man's behavior was suspicious, so they called 9-1-1.

Responding officers detained Beck and found him to be in possession of a set of brass knuckles and a knife. They also discovered that he was wanted on an Oregon State warrant for Parole Violation stemming from a burglary conviction along with a Grants Pass warrant for Probation Violation related to domestic assault.

Eric Beck was lodged at the Josephine County Jail on the no-bail warrants plus two counts of Felon in Possession of a Restricted Weapon. Police checked the complex and found no evidence of vehicle break-ins.