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2A — THE OBSERVER D AILY P LANNER TODAY Today is Wednesday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2019. There are 83 days left in the year. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 LOCAL Police: Concert placed community in jeopardy ■ A free Snoop Dogg concert in Ontario caused police to panic, may lead to fines By Rebecca Ellis Oregon Public Broadcasting TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT On Oct. 9, 1967, Marx- ist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture. ON THIS DATE In 1958, Pope Pius XII died at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. In 2001, in the fi rst daylight raids since the start of U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan, jets bombed the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. In 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison following his conviction on 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys. 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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.” — Al McGuire, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach ONTARIO — What happens when one of the most famous rappers alive today headlines an impromptu concert in a sleepy city in Eastern Oregon? If you ask Ontario’s police depart- ment, they’ll tell you: gridlock, noise complaints and pending legal action. Steven Romero, the city’s police chief, estimates anywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 people fl ocked to a barren lot in Ontario on Saturday to catch a performance by Snoop Dogg. The concert was put together to celebrate the opening of a downtown cannabis shop, Hotbox Farms. The rapper was reportedly connected through a promoter to one of the business owners. Provided only one day of notice, the police department said they had no chance to prepare for the area’s population to swell by about one-third. When the department’s attempt to thwart the event by deny- ing their request for a permit proved fruitless, the city activated its “major incident response protocol.” Even this, the department said, would have been ineffi cient had something gone wrong at the event. “In my professional opinion, HotBox Inc., placed our local com- munity in jeopardy,” Romero said in an emailed statement. The depart- ment will now be “speaking with the City Attorney’s offi ce to discuss what actions will be taken if any against HotBox.” Hotbox owners have not yet re- sponded to requests for comment. Tracy Hammond, who runs a home goods store in the area, said she’d never seen the city so jammed. Residents reported delays as long Nick Krug/The Associated Press Rapper Snoop Dogg performs for the Allen Fieldhouse crowd during Late Night in the Phog, Kansas’ annual NCAA college basketball kickoff at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday. The following day, the hip-hop icon traveled to Ontario to celebrate the opening of a cannabis retail shop called Hotbox Farms. His free, last-minute performance sparked alarm among local law enforcement, who initiated “major incident response protocol,” the Malheur Enterprise reported Friday. as an hour while trying to run their daily errands. Cars with Idaho plates fi lled up the city’s box store parking lots. “You felt like you were in Boise,” she said. Hammond said she avoided the concert because “Snoop Dogg’s not (her) favorite person.” But she said her friends who went “had the time of their lives.” “People told me he threw thou- sands and thousands of dollars,” she said. Snoop Dogg’s representatives were not immediately able to confi rm the accounts. News footage from the event does show a smoking Snoop Dogg playing Kid Cudi’s “Day ’N’ Nite” and performing “Hold Up” to an ecstatic crowd. The sounds of Snoop Dogg lyrics — and the fi reworks that accompa- nied it — trickled over the Snake River and into neighboring Fruit- land, Idaho. That city’s police department fi elded a half dozen noise complaints La Grande adult store seeks to identify shoplifter ■ Desires catches thief on camera, still looking to identify him By Sabrina Thompson Observer staff Just before the store closed on Oct. 2, Desires on Washington Avenue in La Grande caught a man on tape shoplifting from the store. The unidentifi ed man put a sex toy in his pocket before walking out the door at 7:50 p.m. According to the store’s house manager, Lindsey Wil- lis, they did not see the securi- ty footage of the man stealing until the next morning. The item in question was a male masturbator sleeve, and costs between $30 to $60 depending on which brand of toy he stole. “We aren’t 100% sure yet what he took,” the store’s resource manager, Jeremiah Marshall, said. The security camera footage posted to the store’s Facebook page shows a white male with dark hair and a beard on his chin, wearing a dark shirt and pants. There are rumors of who the person is, but none have been con- fi rmed at this time, according to Marshall. The store is asking for community help in identify- ing the man in the video. A report has been fi led with the La Grande Police Department but no suspects have been found. At this time the store is choosing not to launch a criminal investiga- tion into the theft and will handle it civilly, according to Lt. Gary Bell at LGPD. A photo of the man can be seen at lagrandeobserver. com and additional photos and video are available on Desire’s Facebook page. from residents alarmed to fi nd their Saturday evening disrupted by a concert in the state next door. Fruitland police captain Cy Arm- strong said he could hear the concert from his home a mile away from the venue. 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