Sheriff: Man with gun assaults two people, shocked with Taser
MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- A Myrtle Creek man is behind bars, after deputies say he assaulted two people and threatened them with a gun late Wednesday night.
Deputies were called to a residence in the 200 block of Taylor Street in the Tri City area, for a report of an assault at about 11:15 pm.
Authorities say Timothy Cregan, 54, had been out drinking with a 43-year-old Winston man, when the two got into an argument.
Officials say Cregan threw the victim to the ground, assaulted him and threatened him with a gun.
That's when authorities say a 36-year-old neighbor confronted Cregan. Cregan assaulted and also threatened that man with a firearm as well, according to deputies.
Officials say when the deputies tried to take Cregan into custody, they had to tell him several times to show them his hands, but say he refused. Deputies shocked Cregan with a Taser to take him into custody.
Cregan was arrested and lodged in the Douglas County Jail.
He is being charged by Sheriff's deputies with 2 counts of second degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of pointing a firearm at another, among many other charges.
I also live in South County and not everyone uses meth, we don't even drink, so keep your judgments  (wrong as they may be) to yourself I could say a bunch of stupid blonde judgmental statements or comments about ugly people, but I was raised better than that! Have a Nice Day!
I agree with burnstribe, I have lived in Myrtle Creek my whole life and I have never seen meth EVER! Every town has drugs, no matter where you live, didn't you read the story It states the man was drunk! Some people!
Not everyone in South County uses Meth!!! That is a really ignorant thing to say!!!!Â
And I agree with that. However to group all of an area together is wrong..
Violence and drugs has always been heavy in South County. Just got to open your eyes
This stuff is getting all the press as ammo to take our gun rights. What's the matter with these people.
Hey Bob, if she wasn't grouping an entire population as druggies, perhaps she wouldn't get such a bad response to her post.
Susie Mattox Dinsmore: if you say anything off the cuff or anti-liberal, anti-atheist on this site, they will rake you over the coals. Just a heads up.
Susie, meth is not just a South County problem, read a paper and get a clue, it is a NATION WIDE problem.
Wow, Susie, You are just a beautiful ray of sunshine!
must be all the drano/aka meth being used down there
Wow, such violence in south county lately.