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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.
It wasn’t his thing.
“Put it this way, I’m 59 years old,”
Armstrong said. “I couldn’t even tell
you what he sings.”
“If it was Pink Floyd or something,
I probably would have enjoyed that,”
he added.
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