Dec. 23, 1971
Linn County deputy sheriffs arrested men from Albany and Independence on charges of possessing stolen property and threatening injury to another. A Sweet Home patrolman alleges the men threatened his life and the lives of members of his family while he was questioning them here during an investigation into the theft of a pool cue.
Deputies also arrested Earnest Gordon Hughes on a charge of setting fire to forest lands.
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