Prineville Mayor and Congressional Candidate Jason Beebe Has Lengthy Criminal Record

April 7, 2024

Prineville Mayor Jason Beebe, currently challenging Congressman Cliff Bentz from the left, recently told The Argus Observer that he has never committed a felony. In the same article, Democrat candidate and children’s book author Steve William Laible makes the same claim, though he proactively mentions some youthful indiscretions and allows voters to decide whether this should disqualify him. Compare this to Mayor Beebe’s extensive criminal record:

CR970852-D (Crook County)
Offense Date: 2/15/1996
Filed: 10/7/1997
Count 1: Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor (Misdemeanor Class A) – Reduced to lesser charge

Count2: Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor (Misdemeanor Class A) – DISMISSED

Count3: Sexual Misconduct (Misdemeanor Class A) – CONVICTED

Disposition Date: 11/28/1997
MI000199 (Crook County)
Offense Date: 4/1/2000
Filed: 4/10/2000
Count1: Harassment (Misdemeanor Class B) – CONVICTED

Disposition Date: 5/3/2000
MI000385 (Crook County)
Offense Date: 6/24/2000
Filed: 7/14/2000
Count1: Menacing (Misdemeanor Class A) – CONVICTED

Count2: Menacing (Misdemeanor Class A) – DISMISSED

Count3: Disorderly Conduct (Misdemeanor Class B) – CONVICTED

Disposition Date: 7/24/2000
MI070357 (Crook County)
Offense Date: 3/18/2007
Filed: 5/18/2007
Count1: Disorderly conduct in the second degree (Misdemeanor Class B) – CONVICTED
Disposition Date: 7/18/2007

While Right Now Oregon is currently researching further details, the charges are defined by State law. Voters can review the statutes themselves and make their electoral decisions accordingly, absent elaboration from Mayor Beebe.

ORS 163.435: Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor

(1)A person 18 years of age or older commits the crime of contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor if:
- (a)Being a male, he engages in sexual intercourse with a female under 18 years of age; or
- (b)Being a female, she engages in sexual intercourse with a male under 18 years of age; or
- (c)The person engages in oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person under 18 years of age or causes that person to engage in oral or anal sexual intercourse.
(2)Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor is a Class A misdemeanor. [1971 c.743 §117; 2017 c.318 §7]

ORS 163.445: Sexual misconduct

(1)A person commits the crime of sexual misconduct if the person engages in sexual intercourse or oral or anal sexual intercourse with an unmarried person under 18 years of age.
(2)Sexual misconduct is a Class C misdemeanor. [1971 c.743 §118; 2017 c.318 §8]

ORS 166.065: Harassment

(1)A person commits the crime of harassment if the person intentionally:
- (a)Harasses or annoys another person by:
  - (A)Subjecting such other person to offensive physical contact; or
  - (B)Publicly insulting such other person by abusive words or gestures in a manner intended and likely to provoke a violent response;
- (b)Subjects another to alarm by conveying a false report, known by the conveyor to be false, concerning death or serious physical injury to a person, which report reasonably would be expected to cause alarm; or
- (c)Subjects another to alarm by conveying a telephonic, electronic or written threat to inflict serious physical injury on that person or to commit a felony involving the person or property of that person or any member of that person’s family, which threat reasonably would be expected to cause alarm.
(2)
- (a)A person is criminally liable for harassment if the person knowingly permits any telephone or electronic device under the person’s control to be used in violation of subsection (1) of this section.
- (b)Harassment that is committed under the circumstances described in subsection (1)(c) of this section is committed in either the county in which the communication originated or the county in which the communication was received.
(3)Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor.
(4)Notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section, harassment is a Class A misdemeanor if a person violates:
- (a)Subsection (1)(a)(A) of this section by subjecting another person to offensive physical contact and:
  - (A)The offensive physical contact consists of touching the sexual or other intimate parts of the other person; or
  - (B)Intentionally left blank —Ed.
    - (i)The victim of the offense is a family or household member of the person; and
    - (ii)The offense is committed in the immediate presence of, or is witnessed by, the person’s or the victim’s minor child or stepchild or a minor child residing within the household of the person or victim; or
- (b)Subsection (1)(c) of this section and:
  - (A)The person has a previous conviction under subsection (1)(c) of this section and the victim of the current offense was the victim or a member of the family of the victim of the previous offense;
  - (B)At the time the offense was committed, the victim was protected by a stalking protective order, a restraining order as defined in ORS 24.190 (Foreign restraining orders) or any other court order prohibiting the person from contacting the victim;
  - (C)At the time the offense was committed, the person reasonably believed the victim to be under 18 years of age and more than three years younger than the person; or
  - (D)
    - (i)The person conveyed a threat to kill the other person or any member of the family of the other person;
    - (ii)The person expressed the intent to carry out the threat; and
    - (iii)A reasonable person would believe that the threat was likely to be followed by action.
(5)The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall classify harassment as described in subsection (4)(a)(B) of this section as a person Class A misdemeanor under the rules of the commission.
(6)Intentionally
- (a)As used in this section:
  - (A)“Electronic threat” means a threat conveyed by electronic mail, the Internet, a telephone text message or any other transmission of information by wire, radio, optical cable, cellular system, electromagnetic system or other similar means.
  - (B)“Family or household member” has the meaning given that term in ORS 135.230 (Definitions for ORS 135.230 to 135.290).
- (b)For purposes of subsection (4) of this section, an offense is witnessed if the offense is seen or directly perceived in any other manner by the minor child. [1971 c.743 §223; 1981 c.468 §1; 1985 c.498 §1; 1987 c.806 §3; 1995 c.802 §1; 2001 c.870 §2; 2009 c.783 §1; 2013 c.649 §26; 2017 c.430 §1; 2019 c.304 §3]

Menacing

(1)A person commits the crime of menacing if by word or conduct the person intentionally attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury.
(2)Menacing is a Class A misdemeanor.
(3)If a person is convicted of menacing constituting domestic violence as an element of the crime as described ORS 132.586 (Pleading domestic violence in accusatory instrument), the court shall ensure that the judgment document reflects that the conviction constitutes domestic violence. [1971 c.743 §95; 2021 c.581 §2]

ORS 166.025 Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree

(1)A person commits the crime of disorderly conduct in the second degree if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person:
- (a)Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior;
- (b)Makes unreasonable noise;
- (c)Disturbs any lawful assembly of persons without lawful authority;
- (d)Obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic on a public way;
- (e)Initiates or circulates a report, knowing it to be false, concerning an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe or other emergency; or
- (f)Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which the person is not licensed or privileged to do.
(2)Intentionally
- (a)Disorderly conduct in the second degree is a Class B misdemeanor.
- (b)Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, disorderly conduct in the second degree is a Class A misdemeanor if the crime is committed within 200 feet of the real property on which the person knows a funeral service is being conducted.
(3)As used in this section, “funeral service” means a burial or other memorial service for a deceased person. [1971 c.743 §220; 1983 c.546 §5; 2001 c.104 §55; 2005 c.631 §1; 2012 c.35 §1]