Wednesday, May 10, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
STORM: Hail did
lots of damage
to the east
Former Oregon football player
in custody after escape
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crashed.
A Sisters Fire District
ambulance took a beating
from the storm.
“We were kind of caught
coming back from a transport
and the hail started,” said
Julie Spor, district adminis-
trative assistant. “The crew
tried to kind of shelter under
a tree, but the new ambulance
has dents in it and a big ding
in the middle of the wind-
shield, so that’ll have to be
replaced.”
Cloverdale Fire chief
Thad Olsen told The Nugget
that his crew was pulling into
the fire station off the same
call when they were hit. His
By Steven Dubois
Associated Press
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Marlene Baldock holds two of the countless golf-ball-size hailstones that
fell in the Cloverdale area Thursday night.
command vehicle was dented
up, as were several of the vol-
unteers’ vehicles. The new
fire station at the intersec-
tion of Cloverdale Road and
Highway 20 took damage to
roof gutters and dents in the
metal roofing.
Numerous residents in the
Plainview and Cloverdale
area reported damage — from
severely beaten vehicles to
damaged roofs and decks
dimpled like golfballs.
Ready to roll...
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Local women are set for Habitat for Humanity’s annual Women Build project after an orientation held at
Sisters Library last week. Those new to construction learned basics, including the safe handling of power
tools. They’ll go to work this week on a couple of Sisters houses.
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PORTLAND (AP) —
Former Oregon football
player Colt Lyerla nearly died
from a drug overdose Friday
after escaping from custody
near Portland.
Hillsboro Police Lt. Henry
Reimann said officers found
Lyerla at a home a couple
miles from the Washington
County Jail after officers
responded to a reported
overdose.
“He wasn’t breathing;
CPR was administered,”
Reimann said.
Lyerla was eventually
revived with naloxone, a drug
that reverses the overdose
effects of opioids.
Once awake, Lyerla tried
to flee, but officers stopped
him, Reimann said. Police
took him to a hospital for
treatment.
The 24-year-old Lyerla
was sentenced last month to
six months in jail after plead-
ing guilty to forgery. He was
lodged at the Washington
County
Community
Corrections Center, a mini-
mum-security work release
center across the street from
the jail. It’s designed to help
inmates successfully re-enter
the community.
Center Director Steve
Berger said Lyerla was dis-
covered missing Thursday
afternoon after an alarm
alerted staff that a dormitory
window had been opened.
All inmates returned to their
dorms for a headcount, and
Lyerla was the only one
missing.
Reimann said he doesn’t
know the connection between
Lyerla and the house where
he was found.
“Apparently he knows
them because he went there,”
he said.
One woman at the home
was arrested on an out-
standing warrant, Reimann
said. Police are investigat-
ing whether to charge the
residents with harboring an
escaped inmate.
Once considered an NFL
prospect, the 6-foot-4, 242-
pound tight end left the Ducks
in the middle of the 2013 sea-
son after he was suspended
for violating team rules. He
has had several run-ins with
the law since then.
He pleaded guilty to
cocaine possession in
December 2013 and received
a short jail sentence. A DUI
charge in 2014 was dis-
missed. When he was arrested
for heroin possession last
August, his address was listed
as “transient.” Another heroin
arrest followed.
Police arrested him this
spring after the manager of a
convenience store said Lyerla
twice tried to pay with coun-
terfeit $50 bills. When officers
arrested Lyerla, they found
heroin in his possession.
Lyerla starred at Hillsboro
High before heading to the
University of Oregon.
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