Suspect in stabbing a no show for court
EUGENE, Ore. - A man accused of stabbing a stranger downtown didn't show up for court Tuesday on charges that could carry a 7 1/2 year mandatory minimum prison sentence.
Dustin Wayne Renfroe, 28, got out of jail without posting bail or facing trial due to a lack of jail beds.
He didn't appear for court Tuesday, the Eugene Police Department said.
Eugene Police want to locate Renfroe, who is now wanted for Assault in the First Degree-Failure to Comply.
Renfroe was arrested for Assault in the First Degree on January 19, 2013.
The charges stem from a stabbing of a 31-year-old man, believed to be unknown to Renfroe, shortly before midnight on January 18, at Olive Street and W. Broadway, the Eugene Police department said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Assault in the first degree is a Measure 11 crime, so-called for the Oregon ballot measure that imposed mandatory minimum sentences on violent crimes against people. First-degree assault carries a minimum sentence of over 7 years.
I went to the Lane County Jail Inmate Info site, and there are people sitting in there for petty "crimes". I would REALLY like to know why one of those people were not released, so that Renfroe could be housed??? WTF???
@Janice Burdick Because our politicians, and LEOâs want to blackmail us into giving them more money. I think that there are enough stupid people out there who will vote more money for them, too. They believe all the crap that is being bounced around by those wanting more money, and unfortunately, donât see, like most of us do, that it is all just crap, and there is PLENTY of money and ways to keep those dangerous criminals in jail.Â
Did you know that inmates get free mail service? They donât have to pay for letters they send out.Â
Just one thing that they should NOT be getting while in prison. They should be forced to work hard, and get a small wage (certainly NOT even minimum) and be forced to pay for their incarceration, meals and bed, TV, ANY and ALL other special privileges, (like rec. rooms and exercise rooms) etc. WHY should they get a free ride and not have to pay for things I do? This is NOT excessive punishment, in my opinion. It is fair. If they are found not guilty, then what they have paid can be refunded, but just because they are in jail, they shouldnât get more than what those of us out here in the real world are getting, and paying for.
@angelgabe @Janice Burdick No on 20-213!  No more money until the county rearranges it's priorities
---he was released on his own recognizance. This means that the court determined that he was fit to recognize (re-cog) his own court date to appear. But, the authorities did not recognize that he was unfit to remember his court date, and if he were, would not appear 'cuz he recognized that he would be found guilty and so did not appear.---the stenographer
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The Sheriff and County can hardly complain when they did it.Â
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I don't complain when I poop in my own nest.Â
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The county commissioners should be homeless, they don't do anything positive for the community.  FIRE THEM.Â
Why is this news? It was predictable, given the very sorry state of Lame County and their 'jail'. Â DUH!Â
OK, right, It's so shocking that a 28 year old transient with prior delivery / possession of meth charges who got capacity released from eugene jail with no bail didn't show up for his measure 11 mandatory sentencing of 7 years for stabbing a stranger on olive street. Who would've guessed he would never show up? Wow. Nice work EUPD.
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They'll catch him next time he stabs a random stranger on Olive St. And release him 12 hours later, but this time maybe tell him "It's really important that you come to court to go to prison for your measure 11 crime. So don't forget to show up this time!"
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I own a home here. I pay taxes. I (and the rest of Eugene citizens) pay these cops to catch and release, catch and release over and over again. It's time to change the EUPD leadership that's blackmailing us with these releases.
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EUPD's funding has been cut. I get it. Everyone has to do more with less. There are federal grants they could get, they could cut patrols more, whatever, stop releasing people out of prison that need to be there. The fact that Pete Kerns (chief of police) and the Eugene Police Commission are holding our safety ransom to blackmail more taxes from us simply means they have to go. Kaitlyn Lange and Tamara Miller on the police commission (chair and vice chair ... just looked it up) need to go.
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These folks are self serving administrative bureaucrats that are playing a dangerous game blackmailing us with releasing everyone the cops catch before a judge can see them.
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Look at the Lane County Main Jail roster ... it lists everyone's crimes that get 'capacity based released' ... these are violent, methamphetamine dealing (or possessing) career criminals that they KNOW will hurt or rob people again.
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Can we please get rid of the current administration running EUPD as soon as we can? They're doing a HORRIBLE job at their jobs, they are trying to send us a message, they are not public servants but career self serving administrators who are going to hurt the citizens of our city.
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It's incredibly frustrating, but don't confuse the situation ... they could hold onto these people. They just might not be able to buy new cruisers and motorcycles next year. Eugene might need 1 cop on a bike riding around downtown instead of 4. The EUPD admin simply know this is the fastest way to tax us for more money.
Yeah, This dangerous guy was given a combo card for "get out of jail free" and "get out of Dodge" I also believe that it`s a gamble of public safety in an extortion attempt by corrupt city and county officials that have their own list of priorities, perhaps starting with themselves. I hope that if this disturbed guy were to hurt someone elsewhile he is on his gift vacation, that every single person all the way up the ladder who had a part in his release would be held crimilnally and financially responsible for his actions. That might help to stop this BS. Obviously, letting people like this go free to save money in jail expense is costing them much more in new chase, apprehension, booking and new court procedings.Â
@radiofreepacific You are targeting the wrong organization. Eugene doesn't run the jail, the sheriff runs the jail. The money to run the jail comes from the county commissioners. They have set the priorities in Lane County that says other things like: General Expense  Assessment & Taxation  County Administration  District Attorney  Health & Human Services  Human Resources  Information Services  Management Services  Public Works    Workforce Partnership   and Youth Services are more important than locking up dangerous people.
 @hewhoo  @radiofreepacific OK - I stand corrected in terms of administration, that is my mistake.
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However, surely EUPD has some say on this, however informally. The jail is essentially an extension of the Eugene criminal justice system, is it not? You get arrested in Eugene, by EUPD, you go to Eugene's jail, you go to Eugene's Circuit Court, you are under supervision of Eugene probation officers, but you are released in 24 hours or less because a board of county commissioners (with no input from EUPD?! are you sure?) says the money they must save is not worth the risk they are putting us in?
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the setup seems fundamentally, systemically flawed. And of course, we know that EUPD works closely with the sheriff's offices including adult corrections, they have to. Do you think if Pete Kerns called the warden or warden's bosses and said 'you must absolutely not release anyone who has been violent on the streets (e.g. Measure 11), the county commissioners would say "Suck it cop, we do what we want!" ... you know what I mean.
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It's starting to look like the Joker got put in charge of the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There's my once-a-year comic book analogy.
@radiofreepacific @hewhoo ---such were the reasons I started to actually listen to the pro-gun folk. I learned a lot.
Now, I might defend myself w/o shooting myself in the foot. When the incarceration authorities are failing to rehabilitate/correct such zombies, it is time for the good people to promote, encourage and even worship their 2nd AM rights. if that is all that is left when your hard earned tax dollars have failed you.Â
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wow. This, then, must be mind boggling frustrating for the average EUPD cop on the beat around here. they are probably having to arrest the same people over and over and over again. I can't believe how many capacity based releases there are every day, and some of the charges of the people getting released (which is listed on the roster as well).
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looking at the eugene main jail roster is really starting to get depressing, there is way more meth around here then I realized. And I'm not naive. Â I'm OK with meth addicts getting released (much better if released to a supervised rehab program ... ha ha ha, maybe someday) but our community is going to be terrorized if they keep releasing all these combo meth / theft / violent career criminals. it feels like a home invasion robbery with homicides could happen anytime now. We're putting the best and brightest drug addicts with mental health issues and violent backgrounds right back on the streets with no consequences. It's inevitable that really bad things are going to start happening more frequently, and I agree with a lot of people here in thinking that's the point of the releases.
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Somebody, probably a few people, MUST lose their administrative jobs over this capacity based release insanity, and there's a lot of my peers who feel the same.
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We can only vote with our votes, and we will ... and no, county commissioners, it won't be a vote for more property taxes, whatever your little polls are telling you.
@radiofreepacific It is even screwier than that. The Circuit Courts are part of the State of Oregon and funded by them, mostly. The DA is a county official funded mostly by the State, but his deputies and other staff are mostly funded by the County. Eugene doesn't have a jail...unlike Springfield. Probation officers' funding is even worse and dependent on State, County and City funding.  It means Eugene can spend its money on just the Eugene PD its city misdemeanor and traffic courts (think revenue) and after that, they have no responsibilites whatever after the EPD puts these people in jail.Â
 @hewhoo whoops - "money they must save is not worth the risk they are putting us in?" = "money they must save IS worth the risk they are putting us in?"
He has a mugshot in Portland from March of 2012 as well. He'll surface; garbage floats.
@hewhoo ---hope it is stinking while it floats, than means it is dead. Gotta' tie rocks around the ankles and bury it at sea.
So he got  arrested in the City of Eugene and taken to the county jail, why wouldn't  the City of Eugene pay the county to house him?
Let's hope we don't find him after he stabs someone else!
I'm looking for this guy he'll show up digging thru a dumpster or something, but seriously somebody will get a shot off
I mean a call to the cops..Wink,Wink=)
And him being a "no-show" is a surprise to the police and courts? If it is, I've got some swamp land in the Arizona desert I'll make the county a good deal on.
Smart kid, avoiding prison by just not showing up.Â
@godless anarchist ---I think Woody Allen said that the Secret to Success in Life is just showing up---that's it, about 85% percent of life is "just showing up"---and that's a B+. This guy did not even enroll in the class of life. He's an Fn Roads Scholar!
Lack of beds? Let 'em sleep on the floor and throw 'em an 'effn blanket.Â
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This is what happens when you vote for liberals.
@OregonOrator ---"down in West Texas somewhere in El Pas0 (Juarez Mexico) I fell in love with a Methican Girl"---Marty robbins?
in Roseburg, they just pack'em in like sardines next to the  crapper that stinks all the time, so that just 2 days makes one grow a halo and BE GOOD.
The good news is that he is long gone and won't set foot in Eugene ever again at no cost to taxpayers. But in reality they will track him down and bring him back here so that we can support him for 7 years.
 @Stickemup He doesn't look smart enough to leave the county. Â
thery dont really want to find him they let him out on purpose to push there agenda to force honest citizens to cowcow down to there demands for more funding. L.E.O. are playing a dangerous game.
@Durk Strombaucher Thank you for understanding what the system is trying to do to us. Scare tatics work only if we are scared
@GoDucks ---"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"---Winston Churchhill. But, I like the way you put it better. It means so much more to me, because Winston was such an elitist baby face that eric blair used his name as a cental character in his 1984 novel.
My Black Lit teacher at the UFO told me that Winston's scriptwriter was a Black man. I believe it now.
Again, Lane Co. Sheriff and Eugene Police: thank you for your service to Lane County residents.
The blackmail of citizens to send more money down a snake-pit of misuse continues with the release of a dangerous person, something I am sure will be repeated until we give in and give you more money to misuse.
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Yet another criminal looking at a long jail sentence fails to show for his court appearance. Shocking.
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I think those that release criminals like this need to be held completely accountable for THEIR actions, and indeed, the actions of the released criminal as well. You are making those that have parties accountable for party-goers, the same should apply here.
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Again, Lane Co. Sheriff and Eugene Police: thank you for your service to Lane County residents.
The blackmail of citizens to send more money down a snake-pit of misuse continues with the release of a dangerous person, something I am sure will be repeated until we give in and give you more money to misuse.
Great job.Â
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Yet another criminal looking at a long jail sentence fails to show for his court appearance. Shocking.
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I think those that release criminals like this need to be held completely accountable for THEIR actions, and indeed, the actions of the released criminal al well. You are making those that have parties accountable for party-goers, the same should apply here.
Gee, a fine and upright citizen such as Mr. Renfroe, and he didn't show up for court?!! Who could have predicted such a thing??!
@XoztedMama ---he was released on his own recognizance. This means that the court determined that he was fit to recognize (re-cog) his own court date to appear. But, the authorities did not recognize that he was unfit to remember his court date, and if he were, would not appear 'cuz he recognized that he would be found guilty and so did not appear.