Crime & Safety

Willamette Country Music Crime Scene: Two Arrested for Sex Abuse at Festival

Two women attacked in separate incidents.

The Willamette Country Music Festival this weekend in Brownsville, Oregon turned into a crime scene when two separate women reported being the victims of sexual attacks.

Linn County Deputies made arrests in each case.

The first report came in at 4:00 Sunday morning. A woman told deputies that she woke up unclothed and not sure what had happened because of intoxication and sleep deprivation.

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The deputies determined that the woman, a 20-year-old, was staying in a motor coach RV on the festival site. She was saying with another woman and a man, 56-year-old Terry Allen Pepiot. The women were staying in the bedroom and Pepiot on the couch.

Sometime during the night, he entered the bedroom and abused the victim, according to the sheriff's office.

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Pepiot is charged with unlawful sexual penetration.

The second report came in just over four hours later.

A 20-year-old woman told deputies that she and a friend had left the concert and met a man with whom she started drinking at a campsite. She woke up to him sexually assaulting her, deputies said.

They arrested 37-year-old Jeremy Russell Janseen and charged him with sex abuse.

The sheriff's office says that numerous citations have been issued for MIP Alcohol during the weekend event. All minors found in possession of alcohol have been trespassed off the property by festival staff.

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