REGION
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
BRIEFLY
East Oregonian
HERMISTON
Police catch homicide suspect Houfmuse
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
A serious injury crash blocked the overpass on High-
way 207 at the Interstate 84 exit 182 Monday morning.
Crash shuts down Hwy 207 overpass
HERMISTON — The Highway 207 overpass above
Interstate 84 south of Hermiston was closed to traffic for
several hours after a wreck Monday morning.
Oregon State Police reconstructed a serious injury crash
that happened at exit 182 at about 10:30 a.m. on the overpass.
A Umatilla County Fire District 1 ambulance responded
and a LifeFlight helicopter was also called.
No further details were available Monday afternoon.
Two men injured in Saturday crash
BOARDMAN — Two Boardman men were injured in a
crash on Interstate 82 Saturday afternoon.
Israel A. Martinez, 21, and Adrian Virelas Hernandez,
23, were transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center
in Hermiston and Martinez was later transported by air
ambulance to Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane.
According to the Oregon State Police log entry Martinez
was driving a white Mazda with Virelas Hernandez as a
passenger when he fell asleep at the wheel at approximately
milepost 10 and drove off the roadway shortly before 3:30
p.m.
Sheriff’s office cleans out illegal
Stanfield homeless camp
STANFIELD — Umatilla County cleaned out a
homeless camp Friday in Stanfield. The sheriff’s office
reported work crews filled half of a large waste container
with refuse from the camp.
The sheriff’s office in a written statement Monday
reported people “were unlawfully residing” in tents for the
past several months on county property along the banks of
the Umatilla River near the bridge on Seymour Street in
Stanfield. Sheriff’s deputies, along with employees from
the county planning department and community justice,
started the clean up at 9 a.m.
“Our deputies checked the camp regularly and
communicated with the campers to encourage them to
vacate the property by the clean up date,” according to the
sheriff’s statement. “During the clean up, the crew worked
with the two campers who were present and assisted them
in packing and loading their belongings into a privately
owned vehicle.”
They left, according to the statement, and the work crew
cleaned up the site in a couple of hours, throwing trash and
debris into the large container, which Sanitary Disposal
Services in Hermiston provided
The sheriff’s office also reported the “operation began
and ended peacefully and no one was arrested.”
Recent poetry award winner to
headline First Draft Writers’ Series
PENDLETON — Joe Wilkins, who was recently
presented the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry at the Oregon
Book Awards, will share form his latest works during the
First Draft Writers’ Series.
The award, which is the highest honor the state gives
to poets, was presented for his poetry collection, “When
We Were Birds,” which also was selected by Billy Collins
for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize series. The collection
includes what has been described as, “a panoply of voices”
and a “motley chorus,” that ultimately reveals “what binds
us and makes us human.”
The event, which is Thursday at 7 p.m. at Pendleton
Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main St., will include a book
signing and open mic sessions for up to 10 local authors.
There is no admission charge.
Wilkins lives in the Willamette Valley and teaches
writing at Linfield College. His 2012 memoir, “The
Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big
Dry,” received the 2014 GLCA New Writers Award in
Nonfiction. Also, it was named a 2012 Montana Book
Award Honor Book and was a finalist for the 2013 Orion
Book Award. It explores the life of boys and men in the
unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of
eastern Montana.
For more information, call 541-278-9201 or visit www.
pendletonarts.org. For more about Wilkins, visit www.
joewilkins.org.
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Umatilla
police
on
Monday caught the lone
suspect in the recent killing
of James Cragun.
Hermiston
Police
Chief Jason Edmiston in a
written statement reported
a Umatilla police supervisor
arrested Tyree Houfmuse
around 2:35 p.m. Monday
after a traffic stop in the
area of Southshore Drive
and Highway 730, Umatilla.
“Taking Mr. Houfmuse
into custody without inci-
dent is a critical
never recovered.
component
in
He was 38.
the investigation
Edmiston
of the death of
reported Umatilla
James Cragun,”
police took the
Edmiston said in
35-year-old
the statement.
Houfmuse to the
Hermiston
Hermiston Police
police early May
Department
27 responded to
and turned him
a shooting at 525 Houfmuse
over to officers
S.W. 13th Place.
there.
Police
The first officer on the scene later booked him into the
found an unresponsive Umatilla
County
Jail,
Cragun and began CPR. Pendleton on the warrant
Emergency medical techni- for his arrest issued earlier
cians took over, but Cragun this month.
“Since the killing of
James Cragun, our agency
has been in constant contact
with our local partner
agencies,” Edmiston said in
the statement. “The arrest
of Mr. Houfmuse is a great
example of teamwork on
display.”
Edmiston explained a
plain clothes Hermiston
police detective worked
“seamlessly” with members
of the Umatilla Police
Department in filtering
information that led to
Houfmuse’s capture.
MISSION
Wyden talks tribal issues at Nixyaawii
First town hall senator
has held on reservation
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
If all politics is local, U.S. Sen. Ron
Wyden’s Saturday town hall felt like it
couldn’t happen anywhere else but the
Umatilla Indian Reservation.
At the Nixyaawii Community
School gym, Wyden talked about
issues that affected both the tribes
and rural Oregon in general, while
including criticisms of President
Donald Trump and his administration.
Armand Minthorn, a member of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation Board of Trustees,
opened the town hall with a traditional
tribal prayer before mentioning that
this was the first time the tribes have
hosted a town hall.
The Democratic senator said the
town hall was made possible by
members of the CTUIR Youth Council,
who approached him at an April town
hall in Milton-Freewater and invited
him to come to the reservation.
He took the opportunity to address
questions about tribal matters.
In response to some audience
member concerns, Wyden said he
would fight to protect funding for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and benefits
for American Indian children under the
Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Wyden said tribal veterans some-
times “fall through the cracks,” and
promised to work with Toni Cordell,
the CTUIR veteran coordinator, to
establish a veteran service organization
on the reservation.
Health care was also a hot topic at
the town hall, with Wyden saying that
the Republicans’ health care bill would
hit rural Oregon hard.
Wyden said health care was a major
employer in the region and would
negatively affect hospitals like St.
Anthony in Pendleton.
Wyden blamed Trump for the
uncertainty in the insurance market-
Staff photo by Antonio Sierra
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden hoists a basketball signed by the Golden Eagles girls
basketball team at a town hall at Nixyaawii Community School Saturday.
place because he hadn’t committed
to making subsidy payments to the
insurance companies.
“Without rural health care, you can’t
really have rural life,” he said.
Trump’s proposed budget was a
frequent Wyden target, and he came
out against its request to privatize the
Bonneville Power Administration,
which he said would take away jobs
while increasing power prices.
“I stopped the Bush administration
from selling off Bonneville and I’m
going to stop the Trump administration
from selling off Bonneville, too,” he
said.
Wyden said he sits on the Senate
Budget Committee because he wants
to protect programs important to the
people in the room rather than the “tax
breaks for people born on third base
(who) thought they hit a triple.”
He is also a member of the
Senate Intelligence Committee and
was among those who questioned
former FBI director James Comey on
Thursday at the U.S. Capitol. During
the hearing, Comey said he believed
he was fired because of the bureau’s
ongoing investigation into possible
collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia to influence the presidential
election, and also said Trump asked for
his loyalty at a one-on-one dinner.
Wyden said Russia’s meddling in
the election and FBI’s investigation
is something that should concern all
Americans.
“It certainly affects our institutions
at the ballot box, and it also tells you
something about whether the executive
branch, the Trump administration, put
their interests first rather than yours,”
he said.
While many of his talking points
were met with cheers from the audi-
ence, the loudest ovation came when
he recognized the Nixyaawii girls
basketball team, which won the Class
1A state title in March.
Wyden, who initially attended
UC-Santa Barbara on a basketball
scholarship, playfully dribbled the
basketball and even shot a lay up as he
posed for pictures with the team.
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eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836.
Umatilla police arrest Carrillo brothers for assault
East Oregonian
Umatilla police arrested
Jesus Carrillo Jr., 31, along
with his brother, Rodolfo
Abel Carrillo, 27, early
Sunday for third-degree
assault and second-degree
disorderly conduct. Police
also arrested Jesus Carrillo
for resisting arrest.
Disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest are misde-
meanors, while the assault
charge is a felony.
The brothers are in the
Umatilla County Jail, Pend-
leton.
A 9-1-1 caller at 3:49
a.m. reported two males
jumped another male on
Eighth Street, Umatilla,
according to the Umatilla
police bulletin. Jail records
show the arrests occurred
at a home at 701 Eighth St.,
Umatilla.
Jesus
Carrillo
has
a criminal history that
includes convictions for
manufacturing
marijuana
within 1,000 feet of a school
and assault, according to
Umatilla County Circuit
Court records. He also
shot and killed Heriberto
Aparicio Garcia in late 2011
when the two fought at party
in Hermiston.
Carrillo took a deal in
2012 and pleaded guilty
to felon in possession of a
firearm and criminally negli-
gent homicide for the killing
and received four-and-half
years in prison, along with
credit for the time he was in
jail.
District Attorney Dan
Primus at the time said
the punishment was fitting
because witnesses said
Garcia used a knife in the
fight, and forensic scientists
found Carrillo’s DNA on a
bloody knife at the crime
scene.
Carrillo served his time
at Snake River Correctional
Institution, Ontario. Snake
River’s
spokesperson,
Cathleen Shroyer, said the
Oregon Department of
Corrections released Carrillo
Dec. 29, 2015
Court records show Jesus
Carrillo received a citation
in June 2016 for driving
without a license and owes
$512 for that, and he has
a case pending for driving
while suspended and care-
less driving on May 6. And
Rodolfo Carrillo owes $325
on a Feb. 23 ticket for driving
while suspended or revoked
and driving uninsured.
Additional information
about the arrest wasn’t avail-
able Monday.
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