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A woman reported missing from Yachats in April, and later confirmed to have been sighted in Astoria, was arrested Tuesday after allegedly dousing a Newport dispensary and employees with teriyaki sauce.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed Thursday, Newport Police Department responded to the Medication Station on Coast Highway downtown at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on a report that a female subject was throwing sauce on employees.
Upon arrival, a Newport officer noticed an unknown sauce on the carpet, walls, pictures and doors of the building, according to the affidavit, and he noticed a strong odor that smelled like teriyaki sauce. The officer estimated the cleaning bill at about $300.
An employee told the officer that a woman purchased cannabis and immediately after the transaction pulled out a packet of soy sauce, opened it and spread it on the counter, then threw it at another employee. When she was escorted out into the lobby and told to leave, she took out a large bottle of sauce and spread it around the building before leaving, according to the affidavit.
The officer reviewed the store’s surveillance video of the incident, and the next day, another officer notified him he believed he’d spotted the suspect on the Yaquina Bay Bridge. When the officer approached the woman, identified as Ronnie Deleski, age 42, he saw she had the same backpack, bedroll and plastic bag, as well as similar physical characteristics, as the person in the surveillance video.
Deleski was reported missing in April after her car, which she’d been living out of in Yachats since 2020, was found parked askew and empty in a parking lot across from Yachats Commons. She is originally from Arizona and previously lived in San Francisco with her brother, who told the News-Times at the time of her disappearance that she struggled with mental illness. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office reported in May that Deleski’s family located her in Astoria.
When approached and questioned by the Newport office Wednesday, she ignored him, according to the affidavit, and when told she was under arrest, tried to put on her backpack and leave. The officer prevented her from doing so and again told her she was under arrest, to which she replied that she was not.
Deleski then grabbed the cement siding and refused to let go, pulling away from the officer, telling him she would not stand up and that he could not touch her, and the continued to tussle until “somehow, we fell to the ground and once we fell, I kept Deleski on the ground and waited for back-up officers to arrive.
Delseki was arrested and booked into Lincoln County Jail on charges of resisting arrest, second-degree criminal mischief, harassment and third-degree criminal mischief, all misdemeanors. She was scheduled to be arraigned on those charges at 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
A pretrial services report notes Deleski has been reported as a missing person since April by her borther, who is also her legal guardian, and recommends that she be released to him when he arrives from California.
“Ms. Deleski refused to provide me with any information, so I called her brother and spoke with him,” the pretrial services officer wrote. “He is planning on flying here tomorrow.”
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According to an affidavit of probable cause filed Thursday, Newport Police Department responded to the Medication Station on Coast Highway downtown at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on a report that a female subject was throwing sauce on employees.
Upon arrival, a Newport officer noticed an unknown sauce on the carpet, walls, pictures and doors of the building, according to the affidavit, and he noticed a strong odor that smelled like teriyaki sauce. The officer estimated the cleaning bill at about $300.
An employee told the officer that a woman purchased cannabis and immediately after the transaction pulled out a packet of soy sauce, opened it and spread it on the counter, then threw it at another employee. When she was escorted out into the lobby and told to leave, she took out a large bottle of sauce and spread it around the building before leaving, according to the affidavit.
The officer reviewed the store’s surveillance video of the incident, and the next day, another officer notified him he believed he’d spotted the suspect on the Yaquina Bay Bridge. When the officer approached the woman, identified as Ronnie Deleski, age 42, he saw she had the same backpack, bedroll and plastic bag, as well as similar physical characteristics, as the person in the surveillance video.
Deleski was reported missing in April after her car, which she’d been living out of in Yachats since 2020, was found parked askew and empty in a parking lot across from Yachats Commons. She is originally from Arizona and previously lived in San Francisco with her brother, who told the News-Times at the time of her disappearance that she struggled with mental illness. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office reported in May that Deleski’s family located her in Astoria.
When approached and questioned by the Newport office Wednesday, she ignored him, according to the affidavit, and when told she was under arrest, tried to put on her backpack and leave. The officer prevented her from doing so and again told her she was under arrest, to which she replied that she was not.
Deleski then grabbed the cement siding and refused to let go, pulling away from the officer, telling him she would not stand up and that he could not touch her, and the continued to tussle until “somehow, we fell to the ground and once we fell, I kept Deleski on the ground and waited for back-up officers to arrive.
Delseki was arrested and booked into Lincoln County Jail on charges of resisting arrest, second-degree criminal mischief, harassment and third-degree criminal mischief, all misdemeanors. She was scheduled to be arraigned on those charges at 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
A pretrial services report notes Deleski has been reported as a missing person since April by her borther, who is also her legal guardian, and recommends that she be released to him when he arrives from California.
“Ms. Deleski refused to provide me with any information, so I called her brother and spoke with him,” the pretrial services officer wrote. “He is planning on flying here tomorrow.”
Missing woman arrested over sauce
A woman reported missing from Yachats in April, and later confirmed to have been sighted in Astoria, was arrested Tuesday after allegedly dousing a Newport dispensary and employees with teriyaki
