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.
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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.
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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.
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PAROLE &
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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
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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,
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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.