STATE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019
O REGON IN B RIEF
From wire reports
Man gets 15 years
for dragging worker
by hair, stealing safe
Woman struck and
killed in pedestrian
crosswalk in Salem
PORTLAND — A 39-time
convicted felon racked up six
more felony convictions Tues-
day for dragging a Southeast
Portland BottleDrop em-
ployee by the hair to a back
offi ce and then fl eeing with a
safe containing thousands of
dollars.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reported 47-year-old
Gerald Greenwood Jr. was
sentenced to 15 years in
prison for his latest crimes.
His prison term also includes
time for robbing a Bottle-
Drop in Gresham and driv-
ing away with a safe full of
more than $45,000.
Greenwood and two
accomplices wore masks
during both robberies at the
can and bottle redemption
centers in 2018.
Police linked Greenwood
to the fi rst robbery after the
safe he stole came tumbling
out of his car trunk on a
freeway off-ramp on the day
of the heist.
Greenwood pleaded guilty
to being a felon in possession
of a gun, kidnapping, assault,
burglary and two counts of
robbery.
SALEM — Police say
a 60-year-old woman was
struck and killed by a motor-
ist while crossing a Salem
street.
The Salem Police Depart-
ment said Josephine Watkins
was struck Monday evening
as she was crossing Portland
Road in a marked crosswalk.
She was pronounced dead
at the scene.
Police say a 19-year-old
driver stopped at the scene
and was cooperative. Wit-
nesses told police that warn-
ing lights at the crosswalk
were not activated at the
time of the crash.
The cause of the crash
remains under investigation
and no citations have been
issued.
Bend man arraigned
on attempted
murder charges
BEND — A 51-year-old
man is facing attempted
murder charges in con-
nection with an alleged
argument that ended in the
shooting of another man.
The Bulletin reported
Christopher Honey was
arraigned Tuesday in
Deschutes County Circuit
Court.
The judge assigned Honey
a public defender and set bail
at $260,000.
At about 2:46 p.m. Sat-
urday, police were called to
a shooting at the 3 Sisters
Equine Rescue.
Ben Goodwin had been hit
in the back and head with
birdshot and was taken to a
hospital with non-life-threat-
ening injuries.
A probable cause affi davit
says Honey told police he
and his friend Goodwin were
watching a college football
game when an argument
erupted that turned physical.
The affi davit says Good-
win told police Honey
threatened to kill him before
going to get a shotgun and
that Goodwin was shot as he
tried to fl ee.
Lawsuit aims to kill
stalled $2B methanol
refi nery project
SEATTLE — A federal
lawsuit fi led Tuesday aims
to keep one of the world’s
biggest methanol refi neries
from being built along the
Columbia River in Washing-
ton state.
Plans for the $2 billion re-
fi nery, shipping terminal and
pipeline project in the small
city of Kalama are already
stalled after a state board
required further environ-
mental review.
Conservation and public
health groups, including
Columbia Riverkeeper, the
Sierra Club and Washington
Physicians for Social Respon-
sibility, sued in U.S. District
Court in Tacoma to invali-
date key federal permits as
well.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, which issued the
permits, did not immediately
respond to an email seeking
comment.
“The urgency of our
climate crisis demands the
highest level of scrutiny, and
we cannot allow massive
new fracked gas projects
to move forward based on
outdated science and fl awed
evaluation,” Joan Crooks,
chief executive of Washing-
ton Environmental Council,
said in a news release an-
nouncing the lawsuit.
GOP mailer to Oregon
voters mimics
US Census form
PORTLAND — The
Republican National Com-
mittee is sending mailers
to some Oregon voters that
mimic the look of a U.S. Cen-
sus form and solicit dona-
tions for President Trump’s
re-election.
KGW-TV reported that
the mailers are labeled “2019
Congressional District Cen-
sus” but are not from the U.S.
Census Bureau.
The survey asks the per-
son’s age, political preference
and whether they plan on
supporting Donald Trump in
the 2020 Presidential elec-
tion. The mailer also includes
questions about domestic
issues, national defense and
immigration.
Offi cials in Montana last
month issued a warning
about the mailers.
Legitimate census survey
documents are postmarked
from the U.S. Department of
Commerce and U.S. Census
Bureau.
In an email to KGW, a
Republican National Com-
mittee says the mailers are
clearly marked as being from
the GOP.
Burgerville settles
credit card lawsuit
PORTLAND — Burger-
ville has an initial agree-
ment to settle a class-action
lawsuit against them over a
hack that potentially exposed
thousands of customers’
credit and debit card infor-
mation.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reports the Vancouver,
Washington-based restau-
rant chain was one of over
100 businesses mostly in
the restaurant or hospital-
ity markets attacked by
an international gang of
cyberthieves last year.
In most cases federal
law enables customers to
be reimbursed by banks or
merchants for such fraud
reported within 60 days. Last
year Burgerville offered cus-
tomers a free, one-year credit
monitoring service to guard
against intrusions.
— The Associated Press
THE OBSERVER — 9A
Trooper
describes
car’s
plunge
■ Donald Jordan’s SUV
went off Kleinschmidt
Grade on Nov. 5
By Chris Collins
Idaho State Police photo
EO Media Group
BAKER CITY — A Portland man
who was seriously injured when his
vehicle landed in the bottom of a
ravine off Kleinschmidt Grade on the
Idaho side of Hells Canyon last week
is no longer a patient at St. Alphonsus
Medical Center in Boise, Mark Snider,
hospital spokesman, said Tuesday.
Snider had no other details about
the condition of the victim, 44-year-old
Donald B. Jordan.
He was trapped in his 2011 Chevy
Tahoe overnight after he drove off the
left shoulder of the steep winding road,
about 75 miles east of Baker City, and
rolled to the bottom of the ravine the
night of Nov. 5.
Jordan was rescued early the next
morning by members of the Baker
County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue
Team and other volunteers from the
Halfway and Oxbow areas. Members
of the Adams County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment, ABT Towing and the Idaho State
Donald B. Jordan’s Chevrolet Tahoe SUV after it plunged off the Klein-
schmidt Grade on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon.
Police also were involved in the rescue.
Idaho State Trooper Andrew Fisher,
resident trooper at Meridian, provided
a few more details of the crash and
rescue effort in an email to the Herald.
The rescue effort got underway
about 1:30 a.m. PST on Nov. 6 when he
received a call reporting the single-
vehicle crash.
Fisher said Jordan went off the road
about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday about 1.8
miles up the grade. The unpaved road
starts at the Snake River Road below
Oxbow and leads to Cuprum, Idaho.
Fisher said Jordan was traveling
with a friend, whose name was not
available in time for this story. The
friend, who was in a separate vehicle,
began looking for Jordan after Jordan
failed to arrive at their hunting camp.
Jordan and his crashed Chevy Tahoe
were found at about 12:30 a.m. PST at
the bottom of a ravine. Once he and his
vehicle were found, a GPS spot locator
was activated and emergency resourc-
es were notifi ed, Fisher said.
Jordan was trapped in his vehicle for
about 9-1/2 hours, Fisher said.
The Baker County Search and
Rescue Team was activated at 2 a.m. to
help bring Jordan up the steep grade.
Sheriff Travis Ash and SAR mem-
bers responded and began a technical
rope rescue to reach Jordan.
The SAR team and volunteers with
the Halfway Fire and Halfway-Oxbow
Ambulance worked together using a
rope-and-winch system to carry Jordan
up the hillside.
Jordan next was taken by ground
ambulance to Hells Canyon Park
where an air ambulance was waiting
to transport him to Saint Alphonsus
Medical Center in Boise.
Merkley, Wyden introduce bill to
create wilderness in Malheur County
By Brad Carlson
Capital Press
ONTARIO —Legislation
introduced by Oregon’s two
U.S. senators to designate as
wilderness 1.1 million acres
of Owyhee River Canyon-
lands in Malheur County
was created by collaborating
with various groups and
would allow continued graz-
ing and road usage.
The area is important to
the local economy because it
includes signifi cant grazing
land, recreation destinations
and other assets. Recent
research there has focused
on preserving sage grouse
and other wildlife habitat,
and native grasses.
The Malheur County
Community Empower-
ment for the Owyhee
Act — largely a result of
ranchers, business people,
conservation groups, univer-
sity researchers and others
working together — aims
to maintain and improve
rangeland, preserve grazing
and protect areas important
to wildlife and recreation.
The legislation supports
science-based adaptive man-
agement of federal lands
“to make effi cient ranching
a continued conservation
tool and ensure real-time
management responses to
threats on the ecological
integrity of the lands,” Sens.
Ron Wyden and Jeff Merk-
ley, both Democrats, said in
a joint statement.
To help ensure manage-
ment actions produce eco-
logical improvements, the
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legislation calls for creating
a monitoring network of
ranchers, businesses, envi-
ronmental groups and land
managers.
Grazing would be allowed
to continue in newly desig-
nated wilderness areas.
The legislation would
provide funding for re-
search, active-management
activities and monitoring
as well as enforcement of
anticipated uses.
It would maintain exist-
ing roads, and establish
“loop roads” to encourage
tourism while improving
access for fi refi ghting.
The legislation would not
create a national monu-
ment, amend the Taylor
Grazing Act, impede current
projects, impact water rights
or irrigation districts, or
affect management of the
Owyhee Reservoir.
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