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53/39 Offi cer staged suicide, embezzled money NATION/7A BMCC SWEEPS HAWKS VOLLEYBALL/1B THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015 140th Year, No. 15 PENDLETON WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Umatilla Co. gives $600K to EOTEC Tables decision to help Pendleton drone range The remaining $1 million is to come from a hotel tax increase. The county board, though, held Umatilla County Board of off giving $150,000 to help with a Commissioners voted 2-0 Wednesday grant match for a radar system for to give $600,000 to the Eastern Pendleton’s drone aircraft range. The move to fund EOTEC came Oregon Trade and Event Center. The county’s contribution to the after what was to be a construction event center matches what the city update about the future home of the RI+HUPLVWRQJDYHODVWZHHNWR¿OOLQ Umatilla County Fair and Farm- the project’s $2.2 million budget hole. City Pro Rodeo. The entirety of By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Browning Last of Aryan gang pleads One dollar that update came from the $600,000. Ed Brookshier, the More inside “All this is money event center’s board Pendleton council we need now,” Brook- chairman, who said a approves match for shier said, so the center 50,000-square-foot hall $1.5M airport radar could be ready in 2017 would be complete in Page 3A for the fair and rodeo. March 2016. Miller said if the project After that, he, Herm- does not move forward iston attorney George Anderson, soon, there is no place to hold the former county commissioner Dennis fair after 2016. Doherty, a former Doherty and fair board member Don member of the EOTEC board, told Miller spent the better part of an hour See EOTEC/8A pitching why the county should give By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The last central member of a white supremacist gang that operated in Pendleton last year has taken a plea deal. Warren Gerald Browning, 36, traveled Wednesday morning from the Umatilla County Jail to Circuit Court in Pendleton where he pleaded guilty to racketeering, attempted assault and felon in SRVVHVVLRQRID¿UHDUP Court records also show the Umatilla County 'LVWULFW $WWRUQH\¶V 2I¿FH in exchange for the pleas dismissed other gun charges, an assault count and two charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The plea bargain came less than two weeks before the start of Browning’s trial for his involvement in crimes DVDFRUH¿JXUHLQWKH8QLWHG Aryan Empire, the brainchild of Jeremiah Mauer, 31, also of Pendleton. Police and prosecutors held the gang UHVSRQVLEOH IRU ¿UHDUPV violations, assaults and murder plots in and around Pendleton. Police in January took down the gang in a series of busts. Mauer cut a deal in July and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of second-de- gree assault. That earned him a 13-year prison sentence. Other members of the small gang and people associated with it also made deals in the wake of arrests and heavy charges. Circuit Judge Christopher Brauer set Browning’s sentencing for Nov. 20. ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0833. Staff photo by E.J. Harris Warehouse assistant Tom Little puts together a food order for the Stanfi eld food bank Wednesday at the CAPECO warehouse in Pendleton. Food banks prepare for holiday rush By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Most wanted food list Donating to a food drive? Things are about to get very Consider items on CAPECO’s busy at food banks across the “Most Wanted” foods list: country. • Canned fruit 7KH ÀXUU\ RI DFWLYLW\ ZLOO • Canned vegetables come as no surprise to seasoned • Tuna and other canned meat employees and volunteers. It • Peanut butter • Beans happens every year as the holidays • Pasta roll around and suddenly it seems • Boxed, canned meals like chili like every school, church and busi- • Boxed milk ness is sponsoring a food drive. • 100 percent fruit juice “Around the holidays I’d say we • Unsaturated cooking oil get about 80 percent more dona- tions,” CAPECO Food Programs Manager Diana Quezada said. Some food pantries like the On Wednesday Quezada was Agape House in Hermiston stock- preparing for the boost in donations pile nonperishable food to get them with a growing checklist pinned through the lean donation times in WR WKH ZDOO RI KHU RI¿FH DW WKH See CAPECO/8A CAPECO warehouse in Pendleton. Staff photo by E.J. Harris CAPECO distributes nearly 1.2 million pounds of food locally every year. Driver card lawsuit would reinstate law federal government. The group says the measure took driving privileges away PORTLAND — An Oregon from immigrants who lack QRQSUR¿W ¿OHG D ODZVXLW legal status for reasons that Wednesday seeking to reinstate have “no rational relationship a state law that would have WR WUDI¿F VDIHW\ RU DQ\ RWKHU allowed people to get driver’s state interest that is legitimate.” The lawsuit also says cards if they can’t prove they the measure was driven by are in the U.S. legally. The law was approved animosity and the desire to by the Legislature in 2013 punish or to avoid rewarding a then overturned by voters the politically unpopular minority, following year in a referendum. and targets a group of people In its lawsuit, the Oregon for unequal treatment based Law Center says it’s illegal for on their Mexican and Central Oregon to enforce Measure 88 American national origin. As a result, it is discrimi- because it was motivated by a desire to regulate immigration See LAWSUIT/8A laws and that’s the job of the By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press AP Photo/Chad Garland, File In this May 2014 photo, Nathalie Marquez holds a sign modeled after an Oregon driver’s license during a rally at the Capitol in Salem