Grant County sees rise in stalking order violations

By Logan Bagett on Friday, March 28th, 2025 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories

GRANT COUNTY – Grant County has seen a sharp rise in stalking order protection violations. Within around a month’s time, three individuals have been convicted in Grant County Circuit Court for violating their stalking protective order.

Earlier this year, during Stalking Awareness Month, Heart of Grant County’s Executive Director Beth Simonsen was on KJDY’s Coffee Time to discuss local resources available to victims of stalking:

“Our crisis line is (541)-620-1342, available 24-hours [every day]. We also have a shelter in case you need to actually get away. It helps to do safety planning early in the process if you decide, ‘I need to do something different with my situation.’”

Find national resources and further information around stalking awareness at: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/

See below for previous 2025 EMG news coverage regarding stalking order violations:

(EMG story from March 27, 2025) CANYON CITY – A man will spend around a year-and-a-half on probation following conviction on a stalking order violation in Grant County Circuit Court.

Court documents show that Keith Marvin Taylor, 81, pleaded guilty to Violating a Court’s Stalking Protective Order committed in December of last year. Taylor was sentenced to 18 months on Bench Probation with special conditions. Four counts were disposed with no conviction.

UPDATED INFO: Special conditions of probation to include no contact with the victim and completion of 40 hours of community service and/or county work crew as directed by Probation Office.

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(EMG story from March 3, 2025) CANYON CITY – A woman will spend time on probation for violating a protective order and furnishing alcohol to a minor, according to recent Grant County Circuit Court documents.

Jayda Dubois, 22, pleaded guilty to Violating a Court’s Stalking Protective Order, Furnishing Alcohol to a Person under 21, and Unlawful Delivery of a Marijuana Item. Dubois was sentenced to a total of 24 months on Bench Probation with special conditions and ordered to pay $700 in fees and fines. The protective order plea was entered on February 28^th of this year.

UPDATED INFO: Special conditions of probation to include no contact with the victim or their family, no contact with minors, no use of intoxicants, and to undergo mental health and substance abuse evaluations.

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(EMG story from Feb 27, 2025) CANYON CITY – A man will spend a few days behind bars for violating a stalking protective order, according to Grant County Circuit Court documents. Nicholas Allen, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of Violating a Court’s Stalking Protective Order, committed on or about August 10^th, 2024.

Allen was sentenced to 5 days in the Grant County Jail. The guilty plea was entered on February 20^th.

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Oregon statute on stalking, per stalkingawareness.org:

OR. REV. STAT. ANN. § 163.732 (WEST 2025). STALKING — current as of February 2025

(1) A person commits the crime of stalking if:

(a) The person knowingly alarms or coerces another person or a member of that person’s immediate family or household by engaging in repeated and unwanted contact with the other person;

(b) It is objectively reasonable for a person in the victim’s situation to have been alarmed or coerced by the contact; and

(c) The repeated and unwanted contact causes the victim reasonable apprehension regarding the personal safety of the victim or a member of the victim’s immediate family or household.

(2) (a) Stalking is a Class A misdemeanor.

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, stalking is a Class C felony if the person has a prior conviction for:

(A) The person has a prior conviction for:

(i) Stalking, or an equivalent crime in another jurisdiction; or

(ii) Violating a court’s stalking protective order, or an equivalent crime in another jurisdiction;

(B) The person is the respondent for an active protection order in any jurisdiction that restrains the person from stalking, intimidating, molesting or menacing another person, and the person protected by the order is not the victim of the current offense; or

(C) At least one instance of unwanted contact is the commission of the following against the victim:

(i) A felony;

(ii) Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image under ORS 163.472; or

(iii) Unlawful use of a global positioning system device under ORS 163.715

(c) When stalking is a Class C felony pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subsection, stalking shall be classified as a person felony and as crime category 8 of the sentencing guidelines grid of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.