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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Saturday, July 18, 2015 ‘Beautiful eye candy’: Frozen plains in Pluto’s heart Associated Press NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP This July 14 photo shows an image taken from NASA’s New Horizons space- craft showing a new close-up image from the heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto that reveals a vast, craterless plain. 2 dead, Zounded in shootings in Maine By ALANNA DURKIN Associated Press LEE, Maine — A former conYict beat a man and stole guns and a pickup truck before shooting ¿Ye people, tZo of them fatally, during a rampage across seYeral northern Maine toZns, state police said Friday. Anthony Lord Zas arrested at his uncle’s home in +oulton and faces murder and kidnapping charges, and a Zoman Zho Zas being held Zith him Zas safe, state police Lt. Sean +ashey said. InYestigators Zere searching for a motiYe for the shootings, Zhich left 58yearold .eYin Tozier and 22yearold .yle +eZitt dead. TZo other men and one Zoman Zere being treated for gunshot Zounds and Zere expected to surYiYe, police said. Of¿cers, detectiYes and eYidence technicians Zill Zork through the Zeekend to piece the case together, +ashey said. 'ozens of laZ enforce ment of¿cers had been searching for Lord after an outburst of Yiolence that started Thursday night Zith a ¿re at a barn in Benedicta and then escalated early Friday Zhen a man Zas robbed of his guns and pickup truck in SilYer Ridge. Before his arrest, Lord shot people in Benedicta and Lee, police said. Lord faces tZo counts of murder and one count of kidnapping, police said. Additional charges Zill likely be added, they said. Lord Zas being ques tioned late Friday and Zas expected to spend the Zeekend in the Aroostook County Jail before his initial court appearance, antici pated early next Zeek. Lord, 5, has a criminal record that includes conYic tions for domestic assault, criminal threatening and assault, police said. +e Zas placed on the state’s sexoffender registry after being conYicted of unlaZful sexual contact Zith someone under the age of 14. State police also are inYestigating the death of his 6monthold son, Zho Zas discoYered unresponsiYe by his mother in Millinocket in May. Lord Police said the ¿rst shoot ings happened at the home of Lord’s brother, Zhere ZindoZs and the doors Zere shot out but no one Zas injured. From there, Lord returned to the site of the barn ¿re and the home Zhere 22yearold Brittany Irish liYed to get her, +ashey said. There, he shot +eZitt, Zho Zas Irish’s boyfriend, and her 55yearold mother, .im Irish, police said. A state police major crimes unit truck and seYeral of¿cers sat outside the Irishes’ home in rural Benedicta on Friday eYening. 'ogs barked in the backyard, and smoke rose from the charred remains of the barn. Carlton Eddy Zas shot through the ZindoZ of his truck in the home’s driYeZay, police said. Tozier and 54yearold Clayton McCarthy Zere shot at a Zoodlot in Lee Zhere a logging truck Zas stolen after Lord ditched the pickup, they said. Police said Lord and Irish kneZ each other but Zould not say hoZ. Residents said the region is normally quiet and peaceful. “It’s mindbloZing. To see a SWAT team in Lee or Lincoln is ridiculous,” said Rick Jipson, a mechanic Zho liYes nearby in LoZell. But they didn’t appear to be panicked by the police presence. “We’re pretty Zell armed around here,” said James .nealand, Zho Zorks at Lincoln Pulp Paper and liYes near a police check point in Lee. ——— Associated Press writer David Sharp contributed to this report. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity’s ¿rsteYer Àyby of the dZarf planet. 7he NeZ +orizons space craft team reYealed closeup photos of those plains, Zhich they’re already unof¿cially calling Sputnik Planum after the Zorld’s ¿rst manmade satellite. ³+aYe a look at the icy frozen plains of Pluto,” prin cipal scientist Alan Stern said during a brie¿ng at NASA headTuarters. ³:ho Zould haYe expected this kind of complexity?” Stern described the pictures coming doZn from billion miles aZay as ³beautiful eye candy.” ³,’m still haYing to remind myself to take deep breaths,” added Jeff Moore, head of the NeZ +orizons geology team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. “I mean, the landscape is just astoundingly amazing.” Spanning hundreds of miles, the plains are located in the prominent, bright, heartshaped area of Pluto. Like the moun tains unYeiled :ednesday, the plains look to be a relatiYely young 100 million years old — at the most. Scientists speculate internal heating — perhaps from icy Yolcanoes or geysers— might still be shaping these craterfree regions. “7his could be only a Zeek old for all Ze knoZ,” Moore said. +e stressed that scientists haYe no hard eYidence of erupting, geyserlike plumes on Pluto — yet. Another possibility could be that the terrain, like frozen mud cracks on Earth, formed as a result of contraction of the surface. 7he plains — Zhich include clusters of smooth hills and ¿elds of small pits — are coYered Zith irregularshaped, or polygon, sections that look to be separated by troughs. Each section is roughly 12 miles across. DRUGS: Bleed across eYery socio and economic line Continued from 1A year. Agencies also found four money laundering organizations Zith foreign and domestic connections operating in the region, though many small orga nizations also launder money through legitimate businesses to moYe it out of the area. Illicit drugs also killed 5 percent more people in Oregon in 2014 than 201 — 24, up from 222. Meth claimed 140 liYes in 2014, up from 12 the year before, Zhile heroin Zas second Zith 111, the same as 201. Roberts said Oregon made the right moYe in 2005 Zhen it became the ¿rst state to require a physician’s prescrip tion to purchase cold and allergy medi cations containing pseudoephedrine, ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine, key ingredients for cooking meth. 7hose laZs effectiYely shut doZn local and stateZide meth production. LaZ enforcement found one meth lab in Umatilla County in 2014, the same as for 201. Roberts said the labs today are not fullbloZn manufacturing operations of the past but just a feZ pieces of equipment. But putting the key meth ingredients out of reach, he explained, opened the door for Mexican cartels to sink their claZs deep into the state’s drug scene. And thus the number of meth addicts continued to increase, along Zith the numbers of meth oYerdoses. Making the drugs is not the most expensiYe part, Roberts said. Rather, moYing them into the U.S. is the most costly and dangerous part for cartels. They shell out millions to grease palms so people look the other Zay, as Zell as disguising and hiding drug shipments in cars and other Yehicles that haYe to cross customs. In +ermiston on March 4, BENT Zorked in conjunction Zith the FBI to bust a +ermiston operation. A search Zarrant on a house turned up seYen pounds of meth and more than 4,000. That bust connected them to another home across the riYer in TriCities, Zhere laZ enforcement found an additional 17 pounds of meth. Just a feZ Zeeks later BENT found 7.5 pounds of meth after a bust in Boardman, and the U.S. Attorney’s Of¿ce in Portland is currently pursuing charges against at least tZo suspects in the case. In April, 6.6 pounds of heroin Zas found near Stan¿eld in the posses sion of a Los Angelesarea man, Felix MaldonadoRomas, Zho Zas recently sentenced to 58 months in state prison for the crime. In Pendleton in June, Roberts said BENT took a guy off a Greyhound for possessing heroin. Roberts did not explain hoZ cops kneZ he Zas carrying, but the yield Zas impressiYe Photo courtesy BENT On March 4, BENT and other agencies, including the FBI, executed a search warrant on a suspected drug house in Hermiston. They found nearly seven pounds of meth and $43,000, as shown in this photo. The information gathered also led to bigger busts in Washington. “You don’t understand the obsession ... you can’t get out of it.” — Gustave Page, former meth addict — 7 pounds of dope sealed up tight in a suitcase so drug dogs Zould not smell it. “They Zere like big rocks — nobody had eYer seen anything like it before,” he said. And Zhile that form of heroin may be neZ, Roberts said drugs are in eYery community in the nation and bleed across eYery socio and economic line. Roberts also said he does not buy into the idea of a gateZay drug, such as marijuana use ,leading someone to seek a better high. Rather, Roberts said, getting into illegal drugs of any kind is a gateZay into a criminal and dangerous Zay of life. GustaYe Page, 40, said he has been doZn that road. And he bears the price of meth addition. Page Zas a high school athlete, actor, math and science Zhiz in his home toZn of Corbett. Photos from his high school yearbook shoZ a happy teen Zith chipmunk cheeks. After graduating high school in 1994, Page said, he “dabbled” in drugs here and there, then moYed to Pendleton in 2005. That dabbling, he said, opened him to suggestions from other drug users — and the suggestion to use meth changed his life. “I tried the needle,” he said Injecting meth Zas unlike any high he felt before, and Page said he Zas hooked from the start. The third time Page shot up, he missed the Yein in his left arm. +e said he Zas in a torrent of pain for three days, in a feYer and Zith sZeat pouring off him. Finally after his dishZashing shift at a +ermiston restaurant he Zent to Good Shepherd Medical Center, +ermiston, Zhere doctors found Àesheating bacteria Zas consuming the soft tissue of his arm. Three days later an emergency Àight took him to Oregon +ealth Science UniYersity, Portland, Zhere physicians Zorked against the infec tion for another four days until there Zas just one option left. “They had to amputate,” he said. EYen that brutal experience did not stop Page’s addiction. “No,” he said. “You don’t under stand the obsession ... you can’t get out of it.” +e said he could not break the addiction until he Zent to prison for nine months in 201, after pleading guilty to an armed robbery. Page recalled his story from a small room inside the Umatilla County Jail, Pend leton, Zhere he is spending seYeral Zeeks for Yiolating his postprison superYision. +e said he gets out of jail in midAugust and plans to return to his Corbett roots so he can reconnect Zith the tZo teenage daughters he has not seen for years. “I knoZ I cannot see them under the inÀuence,” he said. “I need to be consistent, be there for them.” Page seems to be a liYing example of one of Roberts’ big concerns — hoZ drugs affect liYability in an entire community. +e said the real question for BENT and the rest on the front lines of the drug ¿ght is hoZ to dam the ÀoZ of drugs into and out of communities. 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