Associated Press
 
April 6, 2009
 
KERBY, Ore. -- Authorities say a miner in Southern Oregon has been arrested after firing a 12-gauge shotgun and wounding a man who was part of a group people using four-wheel-drive vehicles in the woods.
 
Ronald Eugene Spears was jailed on an assault charge after a confrontation with Gregory Graybill of Gold Hill.
 
Graybill was reported in serious condition Monday at a Medford hospital with a wounded arm.
 
The incident happened on U.S. Forest Service land near U.S. 199 at the mining claim where the 61-year-old Spears lives.
 
The Josephine County sheriff's department says there were about half a dozen of the trucks on forest roads Sunday afternoon.