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Today in History American David Kunst completes the fi rst round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 pairs of shoes to complete the 14,500-mile journey across the land masses of four continents. He left his hometown of Wasecal, Minnesota, on June 20, 1970. Near the end of his journey in 1974 he explained the reasons for his epic trek: “I was tired of Waseca, tired of my job, tired of a lot of little people who don’t want to think, and tired of my wife.” During the long journey, he took on sponsors and helped raise money for UNICEF. — October 5, 1974 Food 4 Thought “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ” — Ray Kroc, Chairman of McDonalds. Born Oct. 5, 1902 The Month Ahead Through October 31 EZ Orchards Harvest Festival. Combine family fun and education in a farm setting. We have hay rides, an Oregon- shaped corn maze, a petting zoo, face painting, pie eating contests, a pumpkin patch, pony rides, caramel apples, apple cider, donuts, gold/gemstone mining activities, and much more. Admission: $8. Saturday, October 6 Oregon’s Bounty. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St NE in Salem. Sunday, October 7 Male Ensemble Northwest Concert. This group of singers and conductors kick off St. Paul’s 2018-19 Evensong Concert Series. Starts at 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE in Salem. Monday, October 8 Keizer Fire District Fall Open House and Safety Fair, 661 Chemawa Road N.E. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 9 Keizer Parks Board Meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center,930 Chemawa Road N.E. Wednesday, Oct. 10 Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, Oct. 11 Keizer Chamber of Commerce Keizer City Council Candidates’ Forum, 6 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. West Keizer Neighborhood Association general meeting at 7:30 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. Please note the change in meeting time. WKNA will hold a brief business meeting and hear from guest speaker Cloe Wells of IS (Integrated Supports) Living. Saturday, October 13 Out of the Darkness Walk. Fundraising for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Online registration closes 12 p.m. on August 12, but anyone can register in person day of the event. Check-in starts at 9 a.m, walk starts 10 a.m. at State Capitol Steps, 900 Court St NE. For more information contact Ari Woods at oregon@afsp.org or call 503-951-3012. Saturday, October 27 Stayton Ghost Tour & Chocolate Walk. Victorian-themed guided tour of historic Downtown Stayton with chocolate treats after every stop. Participants are encouraged to wear a costume. Starts at 5 p.m. with tours leaving every 15 minutes at the Brown House Event Center, 425 North 1st Avenue in Stayton. Presale tickets are $15 until October 18th, where they will be sold for $20. Monday, October 15 Keizer United meeting 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Monday, October 22 Keizer Festival Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. sudoku 4.1% 2.9% STATE POLICE ARRESTS AT JAIL 1,104 ARRESTS 5 MOST COMMON CHARGES JULY 2018 DATA supervision that allows inmates to maintain employment off- site or take part in community service projects – think highway work crews. Additionally, they can qualify for programs aimed at improving life skills, such as parenting and anger manage- ment classes, or spend time applying for jobs or building resumes on monitored comput- ers. As a whole, the community corrections programs is as much a set of diversionary tools as it is a way to alleviate overcrowding at MCJ. “You can’t build enough beds to lock away all the people you don’t want to see. You have to remember that, eventually, the ones who go to prison are coming back to society, and 1. Assault 2. Theft 3. Sex Offenses 4. Drug-Related 5. Public Safety Holds usually back to the communities where they were arrested. We try to provide stabilizing factors through programs we offer at the Transition Center,” Larson said. Regardless of whether someone spends a night in jail or is determined to be a match for alternative monitoring, the work is done with an eye on the ticking clock. “We are trying overcome the logjam of people going from the streets to arrest to court to incarceration to the streets and then another arrest. The swifter we get someone through the system the more amenable they are to taking part in support services that can stop them from re-offending,” Wood said. Third time was the charm to keep one Keizer suspect in jail By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes How does a suspect keep getting arrested and released? The answer isn’t as cut-and- dried as some might expect it is. In April, Robert Kevin Belfi eld, was arrested by of- fi cers from the Keizer Police Department and charged with fi rst- and second-degree bur- glary in connection with an incident on Harmony Drive Northeast. A day after be- ing arraigned in court, the jail was forced to release Belfi eld because of overcrowding. He was ordered to appear in court about a week later – which he did – and have no contact with the victims of the crime, who he had been living with at the Harmony Drive address. Almost a month later, Belfi eld was arrested on new charges of tampering with a witness and contempt of court. The charges arose because Belfi eld was suspected of try- ing to get one of the burglary victims to alter or withhold testimony regarding the bur- glary a month earlier. This time he stayed in jail for almost a month – longer than the aver- age stay of 17 days – but he was re-released on June 13. Again, he agreed not to contact his victims. Things took a turn for the worse by late August. Belfi eld was arrested for a third time on Sept. 1 and charged with crimi- nal mistreatment, strangulation as an act of domestic violence, unlawful use of a fi rearm and fourth-degree assault. A prob- able cause statement, reveals an escalating level of violence. It appears to have begun a week before his arrest when he is ac- cused of striking his teenage stepdaughter with the stock of a shotgun and later threw the teen’s mother to the ground and began strangling her. The day prior to his arrest, he alleg- edly punched the stepdaughter in the mouth and attempted to physically assault the two wom- en after they took shelter in a car. Belfi eld had been living at the address he was accused of burglarizing, with the victims, since two days after his second release. When Belfi eld faced a judge for the latest round of charges, he was ordered to remain in jail – known as a judicial override. Each time Belfi eld was taken into the jail, he was assigned a risk score, in a range of 1-100. The risk score is calculated us- ing generally objective data such as age, gender, the type of crime and previous cycles of arrest or incarceration. As the violence accompanying his crimes escalated, so did his score, but it took the fi nal inci- dent to raise his score to 99 out of 100 and a judicial override to keep him locked up. That seems extreme given that there are 415 beds available at the Marion County jail, but Belfi eld had steep competition for remaining in a cell. Each morning, Commander Tad Larson gets a list of the current residents of the Marion County Jail, depending on the exact number, it might be 20 to 25 pages long. Less than two pages represents the number of inmates he could potentially release if someone worse is brought in. “You rapidly get to medium or high scores,” Larson said. Showing off the list on a large computer screen Tuesday, Oct. 2, risk scores started in the double digits and rose at least 70 within the fi rst 10 inmates. After the fi rst two dozen, risk scores rise to 90 or higher. By the second page, every inmate has a risk score of 100, then the whole table resets with scores in the single digits. Those fi rst 60 or so inmates are the only ones the jail can consider re- leasing, everyone after the reset is being held at the request of other agencies, judges or serv- ing out short sentences after conviction. “We can grant most of the override requests we get, but we have to consider all the op- tions. Some of the guys we are required to hold have low risk scores, but they are considered fl ight risks,” Larson said. It explains how someone like Belfi eld kept sliding into and back out of the jail and why it took another type of in- tervention to keep him locked up. “Almost all of us understand how it looks to people on the outside, but we have to address the most serious needs of the community in the moment to fi gure out who stays and who goes,” Larson said. looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Police determine 911 call to be hoax A 911 call claiming there was a man waving a gun at children put two Keizer schools in lockdown. The number called from was found to be invalid and the address the caller gave didn’t exist. 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Ant-Man 2(PG-13) Fri 4:10, 9:05, Sat 12:45, 7:10, Sun 3:30, 8:35 Lady Celts blitz McKay 10-1 maze After falling behind Sprague in their last match, the Lady Celts varsity soccer team made a tri- umphant return with a 10-1 win over McKay. Equalizer 2 (R) Fri 8:55 15 YEARS AGO Alpha (PG-13) Sat 3:00 Past presidents press chamber chief to quit Thirteen past presidents of the Keizer Chamber of Commerce called for reigning president Rick Roemer to resign after the decision to fi re executive direc- tor Christine Jones. “It’s like a schoolground fi ght,” Roemer said of the uproar. Hotel Transylvania 3 (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:00, Sat 11:50, 1:45, 3:45, Sun 12:00, 1:55, 3:50 Incredibles 2 (PG) Fri 4:20 Sat 12:05, 2:30 Sun 12:30, 2:55 Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. 1.5% 4.2% PAROLE & PROBATION are working on ways to bolster the alternative monitoring programs offered by the Sheriff ’s Offi ce. In the coming months, they hope to debut two new employees whose sole duties will be interviewing suspects as soon as possible after an arrest to determine their suitability for a monitored release. “They will interview the suspect and determine what resources they already have in the community. Some might be released and have to deal with robocalls, others might get regular one-on-one contacts, others might end up with GPS monitors,” Wood said. For inmates already sen- tenced to jail time, the Transi- tion Center provides alternative AUMSVILLE PD 4.5% A family friendly escape room experience. Solve puzzles, fi nd clues & work together to escape the room! $20/person with Coupon on booking site. (No cancellations under 24 hrs) WOODBURN PD SPECIAL SHOWING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS WITH AUTISM OR OTHER SENSORY SENSITIVITIES. Helter Skelter: Escape from a Serial Killer’s Lair 6.2% TICKETS ARE JUST $4 Escape Quest! TRANSPORT HUB 11:00 AM 6.3% Hotel Transylvania 3 (PG) WELTERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT 9 FIGHTS IN ALL ON THE HUGE SCREEN Live Fights at 5:00 (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. KEIZER PD SATURDAY, OCT 13 7.6% Khabib v McGregor COURT ARRESTS UFC229 - Sat, Oct 6 13.4% 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM A month of arrests at MCCF MARION COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! in deterring crime, Wood’s programs are the carrot that allows those being monitored by public safety agencies to be held accountable while awaiting trial and even if they’ve already been convicted. The tools in the community corrections toolbox range from parole and probation offi cers, to technological monitoring and things as simple as robocall reminders that a court date is pending. “As corny as it sounds, incentives work. Accountability is a factor, but we have to be reasonable about when to offer someone another chance,” Wood said. Lt. Chris Baldridge, spokesperson for the Marion County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, offered a recent example: “We got a tip that a guy with a parole violation warrant was at a business where he worked. We took two or three deputies and spoke with him on the site. He lied to us at the start, but we eventually confi rmed who he was. But the employer came out and spoke with us and told us that he was a great employee. Then a family member showed up and told us he wasn’t using or committing new crimes. We called his parole offi cer and we worked out a solution in which he came back to jail and was back out at his job as soon as possible.” While that decision was made in the fi eld, Wood and his counterpart overseeing the jail itself, Commander Tad Larson, SALEM PD TIMING, continued from Page A1 49.3% OCTOBER 5, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 Jurassic: Fallen (PG-13) Fri 1:50, 6:30 Sun 1:00, 7:50 20 YEARS AGO Police arrest driver who ran another vehicle off the road Mamma Mia 2 (PG-13) Fri 1:50, 6:50, Sat 4:55 Sun 5:20 Mission Impossible: Fallout (PG-13) Fri 6:00, 8:45, Sat 5:50, 8:35, Sun 5:50, 7:35 Mile 22 (R) Sun 9:25 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Maze by Jonathan Graf of Keizer A driver was arrested for drunken driving after his car served into oncoming traffi c and forced another vehicle off the road. The driver’s breath test indicated a blood alcohol level of 0.15.
