DETECTIVES MAKE ARREST IN CASE OF CHILD WITH BROKEN FEMUR

Douglas Co. Sheriff's Office

MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. - A 32-year-old Myrtle Creek man is in custody after detectives investigated a report of an unexplained injury to a child. 

On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Douglas County Sheriff's Office detectives were notified of a 5-year-old child who had suffered an unexplained fracture of his femur. Detectives, conducted a thorough investigation and ultimately developed probable cause to for the arrest of 32-year-old Bronson Daniel Knight of Myrtle Creek. The child was known to Knight.

Knight was arrested on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, on charges of Assault II and Criminal Mistreatment I. 

Case #20-2668