Local News

GP Police Snared Man on 2 Local Warrants while Investigating Graffiti Tagging

Grants Pass Police arrested a man on two local warrants while investigating a case of graffiti tagging on a recently closed restaurant.

According to the Police Department, officers were alerted Wednesday morning to vandalism at the building on NE Agness Avenue that formerly housed Shari's Cafe & Pies.

Police said 38-year-old Charles Lee Shull and several other people were contacted as suspects of the graffiti incident which was called in by a passing motorist. The caller reported observing two subjects painting graffiti on the south-facing wall of the building. The tag was silver spray paint with 12-inch letters that read "Thanks Love."

During the investigation, officers discovered that Shull was wanted on a Josephine County felony warrant for failing to appear in court for Robbery along with a Grants Pass warrant for failing to appear in court for 2nd- and 3rd-Degree Theft.

Shull was lodged at the Josephine County Jail on the warrants and he was being held on $35,000 bail. The investigation into the graffiti tagging was continuing as it was similar to other graffiti applications in town.
Posted on 10/31/24 10:36AM by Sam Marsh