CURRY COUNTY, Ore. \u2014 Law enforcement officers are searching for a Texas man after an incident near the southern Oregon Coast, saying he should be considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n
The Curry County Sheriff’s Office reported an incident near the community of Agness, and said they were searching for Kenneth Leatherwood of Bastrop, Texas.<\/p>\n
Leatherwood is wanted for sex-related crimes involving a minor, as well as stolen weapons and a stolen vehicle, authorities say.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s in his late 30s, and is described as being about 5-foot 10-inches tall, with brown hair and green eyes. He was last seen wearing an \u2018ivory\u2019 t-shirt, blue jeans, and cowboy boots.<\/p>\n
Leatherwood also might have an Australian Shepherd mix dog with him.<\/p>\n
If you see him, call 9-1-1 and do not approach him, as deputies say he\u2019s believed to be armed and could be dangerous.<\/p>\n
If you have helpful information to the search, call the Curry County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 541-247-3242.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said Leatherwood is not wanted by the FBI, but that they are working with Oregon State Police on the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CURRY COUNTY, Ore. \u2014 Law enforcement officers are searching for a Texas man after an incident near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-341026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}