Coos County camp host arrested for menacing
Published 5:00 pm Tuesday, August 12, 2014
SOUTH COAST — Coos County sheriff’s deputies arrested Connie Bates, the camp host of Nesika County Park, on Tuesday for unlawful use of a weapon, domestic menacing, menacing and second-degree disorderly conduct.
The Sheriff’s Office responded around 5:35 p.m. to a report of Bates being intoxicated, chasing her husband around the campground and menacing other campers with a stick. She was being “too assaultive to jail staff to complete the booking process,” according to a press release.
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Bates, 53, of Coos Bay is being held on $50,000 bail.
No photograph was available.
“She was threatening the deputies and not cooperating with booking,” said Sgt. Pat Downing, with the Sheriff’s Office. “Sometime today they’ll finish booking her.”