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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017
141st Year, No. 162
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Unease about white supremacy
grows after Portland stabbings
Christian defi ant during Tuesday court appearance
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
and STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool
Jeremy Joseph Christian shouts as he is arraigned in
Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland Tuesday.
Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two
young women, including one wearing a hijab. When
three men on the train intervened, police say, Chris-
tian attacked them, killing two and wounding one.
PORTLAND — Unease about
white supremacist activity in Portland
deepened after the fatal stabbings of two
men who tried to shield young women
from an anti-Muslim tirade, and some
people worry that the famously tolerant
community could see a resurgence of
the hostilities that once earned it the
nickname “Skinhead City.”
The attack aboard a light-rail train
happened Friday, the fi rst day of
Ramadan, the holiest time of the year for
Muslims. Authorities say Jeremy Joseph
Christian started verbally abusing two
young women, including one wearing
a hijab. When three men on the train
intervened, police say, Christian attacked
them, killing two and wounding one.
Court documents released Tuesday
for the fi rst time mentioned a fourth man
who was the fi rst to intervene and was
not attacked, but they did not identify
him by his full name.
Christian, 35, was defi ant during his
brief initial court appearance Tuesday,
shouting: “You call it terrorism, I call it
patriotism!”
He made repeated outbursts, saying,
“You’ve got no safe place!” and “Death
to the enemies of America!”
Christian, who faces aggravated
murder and other charges, didn’t enter a
See STABBINGS/10A
PENDLETON
Lybrand
faces sex
crimes,
witness
tampering
New charges prevent
release from jail
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Chris Christensen uses a saw to cut lumber while working on the Speakeasy Clothing Co. on Tuesday in Pendleton.
Business is blooming
Three Pendleton businesses plan
expansion with new buildings
East Oregonian
When three Pendleton
central commercial district
businesses needed more
space, they didn’t look far
to fi nd it.
Two turned to store-
fronts across from one
another at the intersection
of Southwest Court Avenue
and 10th Street. Both sites
were busy with renovations
Tuesday, as Speakeasy
Salon & Boutique and
Robert
Alan
Pratt’s
dentistry practice look to
expand in June.
Pratt’s practice will
move to 916 S.W. Court
Ave.,
a
long-vacant
building that previously
housed an insurance agency
and a 7-Eleven.
Ruth Pratt, the dentist’s
wife, said the offi ce needed
See PENDLETON/10A
Pendleton
Veterinary Clinic
owner Fiona
Hillenbrand,
center in the
white lab coat,
her staff and
the Pendleton
Chamber of
Commerce
ambassadors
ceremonially
broke ground at
the site of the
future clinic on
Southwest Em-
igrant Avenue
Tuesday.
Staff photo
by Antonio Sierra
Pilot Rock
headed
to state
Pilot Rock’s Rhyanne Oates
celebrates after crossing
home plate during Tuesday’s
state semifi nal 2A/1A soft-
ball game against Union/
Cove. The Rockets beat the
Bobcats 4-3 in extra innings
and will advance to the
state championship game
against North Douglas
on Friday.
For more on the game and
coverage of Stanfi eld and
Pendleton’s semifi nal games
see SPORTS 1B.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Downtown Pendleton business
owner Jason Lybrand was due to get
out of jail Tuesday for violating his
drug probation. But charges of sex
crimes are keeping him behind bars.
Oregon State Police on Tuesday
arrested Lybrand at the Umatilla
County Jail, Pendleton, on the
following
c h a r g e s :
second-degree
sexual abuse; two
counts of contrib-
uting to the sex
delinquency of
a minor; two
counts of sexual
misconduct; two
counts of witness
tampering; and Lybrand
one count of
using a minor to manufacture or
deliver marijuana.
Umatilla County Circuit Court
records show the district attorney’s
offi ce brought initial charges against
Lybrand of one count of second-de-
gree sexual abuse and two counts of
witness tampering, all class C felonies.
According to the charges, the state
accused Lybrand of having sexual
intercourse with the underage victim
between Jan. 5 and May 17, although
she could not consent, and on May
23 he sought to have the same victim
either lie as a witness or not testify
against him at all.
Lybrand has been in the Umatilla
County Jail since May 17, when the
Blue Mountain Enforcement Narcotics
Team served three search warrants
in Pendleton, including at Lybrand’s
business, Wicked Kitty Tattoo and
Piercing, 132 S. Main St., Pendleton.
Police arrested Lybrand for violating
his probation for drug crimes, which
he started serving in early April.
He was in court May 24 to answer
to the probation violation.
Chuck Byram, lieutenant with
Pendleton police, testifi ed at the
hearing and said he was part of the
team that served the search warrant. In
addition to fi nding drug evidence and
ammunition, Byram said there was a
17-year-old girl at the business.
Circuit Judge Jon Lieuallen set
Lybrand’s bail at $250,000. Lybrand
has his next hearing in the new case
June 6, where he likely will face
charges stemming from a grand jury
indictment.
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Contact Phil Wright at pwright@
eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0833.