La Grande woman arrested after repeated disturbance calls on Penn Avenue

A Penn Avenue address drew La Grande police four times in less than a day before a fifth disturbance call ended with the arrest of a La Grande woman on Sunday morning. Officers arrested 50-year-old Shyla Marie Jordan at about 9:30 a.m. after a report that she was yelling and throwing things.

Police said the calls began on June 13 and kept returning to the same residence. In each of the first four responses, officers were able to calm the situation down, but the complaints kept coming back. On the fifth response, officers went back to the home and made the arrest on assault and disorderly conduct charges.

The sequence shows how quickly repeated neighborhood complaints can move from a manageable disturbance to a criminal case. In a small city like La Grande, the same address generating multiple calls in a short period can absorb patrol time, dispatch attention and create a lingering safety concern for the people living nearby. The City of La Grande tracks calls for service for the La Grande Police Department and 911 dispatch, including police responses, traffic stops and new case reports, a reminder that these repeated calls are part of the department’s daily workload.

Jordan’s arrest also fits the way Oregon law treats disruptive conduct when it escalates. Disorderly conduct in the second degree can include fighting or threatening behavior, unreasonable noise, disturbing an assembly, obstructing traffic, false emergency reports or creating hazardous or physically offensive conditions. Oregon’s fourth-degree assault law also makes assault a criminal offense, and in some situations it can carry more serious consequences depending on aggravating factors. In this case, police said the disturbance had crossed the line from repeated calls for help into an arrestable offense.

For Penn Avenue neighbors, the arrest marked the end of a two-day stretch of recurring police responses. For officers, it was another example of how a single address can demand repeated intervention before the situation is resolved.