GP Police Jailed Woman for Trying to Light Room on Fire at Sobering Center
Grants Pass Police jailed a woman for attempting to start her room on fire at the Sobering Center early yesterday.
The Police Department reports officers arrested the 47-year-old woman at the facility on SW Foundry Street on Friday at 1:26 a.m..
Police said Sobering Center workers called 9-1-1 to report the female subject had a lighter and was using it to try to start her holding room on fire. They said she was also stripping down naked, thrashing around and trying to destroy the room. They were able to take the lighter away from the woman.
The suspect identified as "Serenity Shayne Bailey" was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for Felony Attempted 1st-Degree Arson and Felony 1st-Degree Criminal Mischief. She was being held on Friday without bail.
Bailey had been brought in to the Sobering Center by the Josephine County Sheriff's Office because she was highly intoxicated while allegedly trying to start fires on Spencer Creek Road in the Murphy area on Thursday night. She admitted to using methamphetamine, alcohol and marijuana.
According to the Sheriff's Office, a witness reported the woman lit some small fires because she was "trying to find out what it would look like if she lit the forest on fire." There was evidence that a few fires were started, but all of them were out.
