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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016
Macaw poses in man’s
mug shot after unlucky
courtroom appearance
Tropical parrot
now a jail bird
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A 4-year-
old macaw named “Bird”
is an instant celebrity after
appearing in a posed booking
mug shot with his unfortunate
owner.
Craig Buckner left Bird in a
tree outside court in Washing-
ton County while he went in
for an appearance Thursday in
an ongoing drug and theft case,
said Sgt. Bob Ray, the sheriff’s
spokesman. Buckner was not
expecting to be arrested, but
when he fell asleep while wait-
ing for his case to be called, he
was taken for a drug urine test
and failed, Ray said.
When he realized he was
going to be arrested, Buckner
got very upset and deputies
finally realized why.
“He was very concerned
about Bird the bird,” Ray said.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office
Bird, a 4-year-old macaw,
in a booking photo with his
owner.
“Very distraught.”
Bird was 30 feet up the tree,
Ray said, and it was getting
dark and rainy. Temperatures
were in the low 40s.
Deputies realized there was
no way Bird — a tropical par-
rot — would survive over-
night, but he would not come
to them.
They eventually brought
Buckner outside and removed
the restraints from one of his
hands.
Bird immediately flew
down to Buckner and landed
on his shoulder.
The macaw stayed with
deputies for several hours and
feasted on peanuts until they
reached a friend who could
pick Bird up.
While they waited, depu-
ties let Buckner’s feathered
friend sit on his shoulder in a
set up booking shot, just for
kicks.
They also took a real book-
ing photo of Buckner with-
out Bird — but the macaw
still managed to photo bomb
it with a few of his colorful
feathers, Ray said.
“It’s quite funny,” he said.
“How can you resist that?”
The department is proud of
how it landed the Bird, even if
it did take extra time on a busy
day, Ray said.
“We’re not all robots.
We’re humans, we love ani-
mals and we want to do the
right thing,” he said.
“For the animal, and for
Mr. Buckner too.”
Oregon eases up on new
rules for marijuana testing
Businesses
warned of drop
in tax revenue
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — The state on
Friday temporarily eased up on
testing requirements for mari-
juana, two days after business
insiders warned that new rules
would cause a drop in state
tax revenues, an increase in
black-market sales and layoffs
in the industry.
The Oregon Health Author-
ity said its temporary rules take
effect immediately and would
provide relief for the indus-
try while maintaining public
health protection.
“The governor has been
clear about the importance of
the marijuana industry to Ore-
gon’s economy,” Jeff Rhoades,
marijuana policy adviser for
Gov. Kate Brown, said in the
health authority statement.
“This approach keeps Orego-
nians employed, prevents mar-
ijuana product from slipping
back into the illegal market,
and continues to protect public
health and safety.”
The authority, which is
responsible for adopting test-
ing standards for marijuana
products for public safety,
said it is cutting three process
validation tests to one con-
trol study; allowing a proces-
sor to combine samples into
one composite sample; remov-
ing alcohol-based solvents
from testing requirements; and
allowing samples from mul-
tiple batches to be combined
for the purposes of testing for
THC — the element that pro-
vides the “high” — and canna-
binoids if the batches are the
same strain.
Samples from multiple
batches, even if they’re from
different strains, may be com-
bined to test for pesticides if
the total weight of the batches
does not exceed 10 pounds, the
health authority said.
Furthermore, the authority
increased the amount of homo-
geneity variance in edibles
and said the THC and canna-
binoid amounts required to be
on a label must be within plus
or minus 5 percent of the value
calculated by the laboratory.
Beau Whitney, an econ-
omist and marijuana busi-
nessman, said in a study pub-
lished Wednesday that more
stringent rules imposed by the
health authority in October, as
mandated by the Legislature,
resulted in products taking
two to three weeks to be com-
pletely tested in the state’s few
certified labs, with the product
often failing. He noted a drop
of supplies of cannabis prod-
ucts in both the medical and
recreational markets as there
was a bottleneck at the labs.
His report said black mar-
ket activities would conse-
quently increase to a projected
$187.5 million per year. He
predicted Oregon tax revenues
would decrease by at least $10
million in the fourth quarter.
Over a fifth of 72 respondents
to his business survey indi-
cated that they were going out
of business.
The new temporary rules
are “a good first step,” Whit-
ney said, but added that he
needed to analyze them more.
He expressed doubt they would
relieve the bottleneck at the
labs, citing “a huge backlog of
tests samples to process.”
Crash kills two on Highway 26
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Oregon
State Police investigators
say they believe speed might
have been a factor in a crash
that killed two young women
near Seaside.
Two Cornelius women
died after a crash on High-
way 26 Saturday night, while
two Seaside residents were
taken to the hospital.
Preliminary investigations
show that about 7:30 p.m., a
2006 Chevy Equinox driven
by Anali Aguilar Gaona, 21,
was traveling eastbound on
Highway 26 near Camp 18
when it crossed the center-
line and struck a 2012 GMC
pickup. Gaona and her pas-
senger, Marilyn Manriquez
Gutierrez, 23, were both pro-
nounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the GMC,
Michael J Heuvelhorst, 63,
and passenger Linda J Heuv-
elhorst, 69, were transported
to local hospitals for injuries.
Highway 26 was closed
or partially closed for more
than five hours during the
investigation.
State police were assisted
by the state Department of
Transportation and Ham-
let Rural Fire Protection
District.
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Craft beer industry slows, but opportunities exist
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon’s
craft beer industry is slowing
down after a decade of explo-
sive growth, but a state eco-
nomic analyst says the out-
look is good for neighborhood
microbreweries.
Josh Lehner, of the Oregon
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the annual meeting of the Ore-
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The number of brewer-
ies in Oregon jumped from 76
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