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Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement Team officers arrested Dandre Davaune Parker, 20, on charges of possession, manufacture and delivery of heroin, possession of ecstasy, and manufacture of heroin and delivery of ecstasy within 1,000 feet of a school. He was lodged in the Jackson County Jail, where he remained Thursday evening on $100,000 bail. Acting on a tip that members of the Crips street gang were dealing drugs near Jackson Elementary School, Medford police arrested a man on numerous drug charges Thursday morning.The arrest comes on the heelsof an unrelated investigation that led to three arrests and theseizure of an estimated $40,000worth of heroin and methamphetamine, team supervisor Medfordpolice Lt. Tim Doney said."We suspect Parker is associated with a Crips gang out of Stockton (Calif.)," Doney said.Investigators searched Parker's apartment in the 800 block of Summit Avenue at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, armed with a warrant based on allegations of gang and dr...

Anthony Paez, 20, and Edgar Flores, 17, are charged with murder, attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited motor vehicle in the May 30, 2008, death of Alexis Melendrez-Acosta at Cactus Drive and Desert View Avenue.Paez and Flores face the murder count because shooting at police officers is considered a ``provocative act,'' meaning there's high probability it will result in death, Deputy District Attorney Anthony Orlando told jurors in his closing argument.``When you shoot at officers, is it not foreseeable, it is not likely, that they would shoot back?'' the prosecutor said.Paez, who could be sentenced to 87 years to life in prison if convicted, also faces separate charges on accusations of shooting at CHP officers a week before Melendrez' Acosta's death.Flores faces 39 years to life if found guilty. The teen, who is also accused of being a gang associate, was prosecuted as an adult.The prosecution alleges that Flores was behind the wheel of a stolen Hon...