La Pine man arrested in shots-fired incident

A La Pine man faces reckless endangering and other charges, accused of firing three shots into a nearby field Thursday evening and trying to get away from responding Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies, an officer said.

Deputies responded around 5:30 p.m. Thursday to the Cascade Meadows RV Resort on Highway 97 in La Pine on a report of a man shooting into a field, said Lt. Joe DeLuca.

While on the way, deputies were told the situation had become a domestic dispute, with a man and woman yelling and screaming inside a fifth-wheel trailer, DeLuca said.

Deputies arrived on scene and saw a man later identified as Curtis Davis, 54, trying to get into the fifth-wheel. Davis refused to comply with deputies’ orders and became combative, then tried to run, but deputies were able to restrain him and take him into custody, DeLuca said.

An investigation found that Davis had left his fifth-wheel trailer with a small-caliber handgun and fired about three rounds into an empty field, the lieutenant said. He then returned to the trailer and got into an argument with his girlfriend. He left the trailer and then tried to re-enter it, which is when deputies arrived.

Davis was arrested by citation on charges of reckless endangering, disorderly conduct, interfering with a police officer, menacing and resisting arrest, DeLuca said, adding that the investigation is ongoing.

He was not taken to jail due to “outside circumstances beyond our control,” Sgt. Vance Lawrence said.