Baker City woman charged with trespassing after walking into home
Published 11:08 am Thursday, February 27, 2025
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A Baker City woman was arrested Wednesday morning, Feb. 26, and charged with trespassing after she walked into a home next to Quail Ridge Golf Course and wandered inside before leaving.
Angela Marie Aldrich, 45, was taken to the Baker County Jail after her arrest around 11:46 a.m. in the 3200 block of Indiana Avenue. She is charged with first-degree criminal trespassing, a Class A misdemeanor, and second-degree criminal trespassing, a Class C misdemeanor.
Aldrich was granted a conditional release. She is scheduled to enter a plea to the charges April 7 at 11:15 a.m.
According to a probable cause affidavit written by Andrew Martin, a Baker City Police officer, the dispatch center had a call about a suspicious female walking through backyards on Indiana Avenue near the golf course.
Martin wrote that he found Aldrich in the backyard of John Wilson’s home at 3515 Indiana Ave.
Martin wrote that Aldrich didn’t answer when he asked her who owned the home.
Aldrich then tried to walk through a gate that opens onto the golf course.
Aldrich did not give her name and “became very agitated when asked about a pocket knife in her pocket,” Martin wrote.
Martin, who was joined by Sgt. Rand Weaver and Officer Zachary Just, wrote that he and Weaver recognized Aldrich, and they learned from dispatch that there was a warrant for Aldrich’s arrest, on a failure to appear charge, from Union County Circuit Court.
Police also learned that Aldrich had entered Tod Chandler’s home at 725 West Fairway Drive, a block or so east of Wilson’s home.
Martin wrote that Chandler sent him video from a camera that showed Aldrich entering the home through an unlocked front door. Nothing was taken from inside the home, Martin wrote.