Lane County, OR. — Lane County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported hit-and-run shortly before 11 p.m. on December 23 at a residence in the 27800 block of Highway 36, east of Cheshire.
Deputies contacted the victims nearby and learned they had been rammed by a rental box truck while driving down their driveway. The truck also smashed through a gate on the property. The driver was identified as Christopher Eugene Starnes, 46, of Junction City.
While deputies were speaking with the victims, a second caller reported Starnes was being disorderly on the property, walking around naked while holding a large knife. Starnes then left the scene in the rental box truck.
Deputies later located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop. Starnes was taken into custody without further incident, and a large knife was recovered from the vehicle.
Starnes was lodged at the Lane County Jail on three counts of Attempted Assault in the Fourth Degree, Failure to Perform the Duties of a Driver–Property Damage, and two counts of Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree.
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