Lane County Mugshots ©

EUGENE, Ore. — A 26-year-old Springfield man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday to a federal hate crime charge for nearly beating a gay man to death with a tire thumper after meeting him on the dating app Grindr. Daniel Andrew McGee admitted to one count of a Hate Crime Act Involving an Attempt to Kill in connection with the July 5, 2021, assault that left the victim with life-threatening head injuries. Court documents reveal McGee spent at least a month planning the attack, searching online for violent anti-gay content, researching ways to “get away with murder,” and purchasing the wooden tire thumper and other materials on Amazon. Prosecutors say McGee targeted the victim because of his sexual orientation. The two had connected on Grindr, an app primarily used by gay and bisexual men, and arranged to meet at the victim’s apartment, where the prolonged assault took place. McGee was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2021. Under the plea agreement, he has agreed ...

  Eugene, Oregon – November 21, 2025 Andrew Edmund Goble , age 72, a longtime professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon, was booked into the Lane County Jail on November 21, 2025, facing 10 counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree and 10 counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree . On November 20, 2025, at approximately 7 a.m., Lane County Sheriff’s detectives executed a search warrant at a residence of Goble's in the 1900 block of Dogwood Drive in Eugene.  This search warrant stemmed from an investigation by the Lane County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, focusing on child exploitation. The charges, which are felonies under Oregon law, typically involve the possession, duplication, or distribution of materials depicting the sexual abuse of children.  Goble , a specialist in pre-modern Japanese history with a focus on medieval Japan, has been a faculty member at the University of Oregon s...

EUGENE, Ore. — On Friday, November 14, at about 3:05 p.m., a Eugene Police officer tried to pull over a Ford F-150 driven recklessly near Valley River Center. The driver refused to stop, putting the public at risk and triggering a multi-unit chase. Two patrol cars were damaged near Club Road and Cedarwood Drive during the pursuit. One officer suffered minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The truck headed east toward Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard into heavy Game Day traffic. A passenger jumped from the moving vehicle and ran; officers chased and detained him on foot while others followed the truck with lights and sirens to alert pedestrians and drivers. At around 3:13 p.m., officers performed a forcible stop, pinning the vehicle near MLK Boulevard and Garden Way. A third patrol car was damaged in the process. The 46-year-old male driver, James Allen Thomson , and a second passenger, Leslie Daryl Ray Beebe , were taken into custody. The driver was transported...

Eugene, Ore. – November 14, 2025 – A bench warrant was issued November 14, 2025, for Andrew Dayton Capps, 31, of Eugene, after he failed to appear for a November 12 trial in Lane County Circuit Court on a felony charge of driving while suspended or revoked. Capps was arrested in March 2025 for operating a vehicle despite a lifetime driver’s license revocation imposed following his 2020 conviction for criminally negligent homicide in the death of Mack Wallace Carothers, 24. On December 30, 2017, Capps was driving on Bailey Hill Road in Eugene when his vehicle left the roadway and crashed. Carothers, a passenger, was ejected and died at the scene from blunt force trauma. Capps fled on foot. Capps was arrested the same day and charged with first-degree manslaughter, DUII, reckless driving, and failure to perform the duties of a driver. A Lane County jury convicted him on all counts in October 2019. In 2018, while awaiting trial on charges of first-degree manslaughter and DUII stemming fr...