BEND, OR -- A Medford man was arrested early Friday morning in Bend, after police say he ran from officers. Bend Police responded to a report of a stolen car on SE Sixth Street, just after 2 a.m. When law enforcement arrived, the vehicle had already been returned, but investigators learned Jacob Randall Granger, a 32-year-old Medford resident with a felony conviction, had left the area in a vehicle that contained firearms. 

When officers tried to pull over the vehicle, Granger took off. Officers did not pursue, but soon after located Granger’s vehicle, a silver pickup truck, in the area of Jaycee Park on SE Railroad Street, where it had crashed into a fence. 

Bend Police and Deschutes County 911 sent out an emergency alert to neighbors in the area. Officers executed a search warrant on the vehicle. While collecting evidence in the vehicle, they say Granger ran from a nearby residence. He was arrested without incident on the following charges:  Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Police Officer, Hit and Run Accident with Property Damage, Criminal Trespass I, Criminal Trespass II (2 counts), Burglary I, Theft II (2 counts)