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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
East Oregonian
PENDLETON
BRIEFLY
Police stun
Hermiston man
during arrest
HERMISTON —
Oregon State Police
reported a trooper used
a stun gun on a domestic
violence suspect for
resisting arrest.
Umatilla County
sheriff’s deputies Jeff
Brown and Jonathan
Roberts late Thursday
responded to a report
of domestic violence
on the 2200 block of
North Townsend Road,
Hermiston, and Oregon
State Police trooper
Mitchell Goldman around
1:20 a.m. Friday went to
the scene to assist.
After the investigation,
according to state police,
the officers tried to arrest
Michael Jacob Morris, 21,
for assault.
“The suspect began
resisting arrest,” according
to state police, “and at one
point injured the deputy on
his hand.”
Undersheriff Jim
Littlefield said Roberts
suffered a small cut on
one hand while trying to
handcuff Morris, and all
the injury required was
cleaning and a bandage.
Morris continued to
refuse officers’ orders,
and state police reported
Goldman held his Taser
against Morris in the
“drive stun” mode without
firing the projectiles until
the suspect “eventually
complied with our
commands.”
Emergency technicians
evaluated Morris before
police hauled him to the
Umatilla County Jail,
Pendleton, where he now
faces charges of fourth-
degree assault for domestic
violence and two counts
of interfering with a peace
officer.
Police: Intoxicated
Pendleton man
tried to hit trooper
PENDLETON —
Oregon State Police
reported an intoxicated
Pendleton man took a
swing at a trooper before
ending up in jail.
Trooper Tyler Steele
was heading south on
Highway 11 at about
3 p.m. Saturday to put
a 21-year-old Milton-
Freewater man in jail for
driving while suspended
when he saw a black
Chevrolet Silverado
pickup almost collide with
oncoming traffic.
State police reported
the trooper stopped the
pickup near milepost 18
and saw “multiple signs
of impairment” from the
driver, Jack Pearce Mills,
43, of 47275 Short Mile
Road, Pendleton.
Air museum finds home downtown
Mills agreed to a
sobriety test, according to
state police, and showed
more signs of impairment.
Steele tried to arrest Mills
and Mills tried to hit
Steele.
Another officer
responded, and the two
police got the cuffs on
Mills and arrested him for
driving under the influence
of intoxicants, recklessly
endangering another (there
was one passenger in the
pickup), resisting arrest,
and assault of a public
safety officer. Steele took
the suspect to the Umatilla
County Jail, Pendleton,
where he provided breath
samples that showed a
blood-alcohol level of
.18 percent, more than
twice the legal limit of .08
percent.
The Umatilla County
District Attorney’s Office
brought initial charges
against Mills on Monday
and changed the charge
of assault of a public
safety officer to attempted
assault.
Mills remains in the jail
in lieu of a $25,000 bond.
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
The
Pendleton
Air
Museum will soon take a
place among the city’s other
historic exhibitions down-
town.
The museum board
recently announced that it
signed a lease to rent a space
at 21 S.W. Emigrant Ave.,
just a few doors down from
the Pendleton Underground
Tours.
The space represents the
first permanent home for
the nonprofit, which now
has room to publicly exhibit
its collection of historical
aviation memorabilia.
The museum website asks
volunteers to help prepare
the building for a targeted
opening date of Sept. 9.
Originally
established
in 1989, the Pendleton Air
Museum has long sought
a physical building for its
displays. One of its latest
fundraisers to reach that goal
was a gala in commemora-
tion of the 75th anniversary
of the Doolittle Raids, which
featured personnel who
trained at the Pendleton air
base.
Chris Sykes is familiar
with the situation in several
ways — he’s the presi-
dent-elect of the air museum
board, the president of the
underground tours board and
his real estate office is on the
same block as both.
Sykes said the air museum
still wants to keep an eye
out for a larger facility near
the airport that could house
Leadership
Hermiston seeks
participants
HERMISTON — The
Hermiston Chamber of
Commerce is accepting
applications for the
upcoming Leadership
Hermiston class.
A 10-month program
that starts in September,
participants learn about
current concerns in the
community. During once
a month full-day sessions,
class members tour a
variety of businesses,
organizations and
operations.
The class topics range
from education and
human services needs to
the justice system and
local government. In
addition, when the Oregon
Legislature is in session,
there is a day at the capital
where participants travel
to Salem to meet with
lawmakers.
The program assists in
developing relationships
with other community
leaders while exploring
opportunities to help make
Hermiston a better place to
live and grow a business.
The cost for Leadership
Hermiston is $650 for
chamber members and
$850 for non-members.
Some scholarship help may
be available.
For more information,
call 541-567-6151 or visit
www.hermistonchamber.
com.
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
The Pendleton Air Museum has found a home in downtown Pendleton near the
Pendleton Underground Tours.
historical aircraft, but the
museum wanted to get its
start with the downtown
space.
“This is a spot we can
launch from,” he said.
Sykes said the Emigrant
Ave. museum will focus on
World War II-era history and
will include historical items
like uniforms, pictures and
artillery.
The
Pendleton
Air
Museum joins a small
group of museums that are
located in the downtown
area, including Pendleton
Underground Tours and the
Heritage Station Museum.
Pendleton
Downtown
Association
Executive
Director Molly Turner said
adding another organization
that showcases Pendleton’s
history will be a plus for the
downtown area.
“Foot traffic is a great
thing for everyone,” she said.
Pendleton’s history in
aviation stretches back nearly
nine decades.
According to “A Century
of News and People in the
East Oregonian,” the Pend-
leton City Council voted in
1930 to establish the city’s
first airport two miles east of
town.
Just four years later, the
city built a new airport to
obtain a stop on an air mail
route.
During World War II, the
airport was turned into an air
base, which housed members
of the Doolittle Raiders and
the “Triple Nickles,” an
all-black unit that performed
smokejumping operations at
forest fires across the country.
Pendleton was designated
an Essential Air Service
community in 1978 and is
now the only city in Oregon
with subsidized commercial
air service.
People interested in
volunteering can contact the
air museum at 541-278-0141.
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Contact Antonio Sierra at
asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
PENDLETON
Police catch trio after rash of vehicle break-ins
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Pendleton police arrested
three suspects in connection
to the recent rash of vehicle
break-ins across town.
Pendleton police Lt.
Charles Byram in an email
stated the department has
received 27 reports since
July 20 of unlawfully
entered vehicles. Neighbor-
hoods on the North Hill and
South Hill experienced the
highest rates of victimiza-
tion with other cases spread
out in the city. Victims in 13
incidents only wanted to tell
police about the crime and
not file a report, but Pend-
leton police investigated the
other 14.
Police caught the first
suspect on July 20, Byram
reported. Charles Scott
Ronald Chapel, 24, of Pend-
leton, faces misdemeanors
of
unauthorized
entry
into a motor vehicle and
third-degree theft for a case
in the area of the 10 block of
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The
crime
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continued this weekend,
with 10 reports alone
Friday, according to the
police bulletin. The crimes
occurred all over the city,
from Northwest 10th Street
to several in the area of
Southeast Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth streets.
Byram stated officers
caught the next two suspects
Friday and Saturday.
Police arrested Kyle
Thomas Simpson, 30, in
connection to a case at
Domino’s Pizza, 1211
S.E. Emigrant Ave. Police
arrested him for possession
of burglary tools, unautho-
rized entry into a motor
vehicle, and third-degree
theft, all misdemeanors.
And
police
nabbed
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after an incident on the 300
block of Southeast First
Street. She faces charges of
possession of methamphet-
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and seven counts of fraud-
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Simpson and Dima also are
Pendleton residents.
“Most of the items stolen
from the vehicles consisted
of loose change, cellphones,
purses
and
wallets,”
according to Byram, but
one case involves the theft
of a Mossberg 12-gauge
shotgun. The lieutenant also
stated nearly all the vehicles
involved were unlocked and
had valuables in plain view.
Most of these crimes
occurred in the late night
or early morning hours, and
Byram also explained these
cases are typically “crimes
of opportunity” in which
the suspect walks through
a neighborhood looking for
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unsecured vehicles with
valuables in plain view.
He encouraged the public
to lock their vehicles and
not keep valuables in them,
and to report any suspicious
people or activity.
Umatilla County Circuit
Court records show Chapel
has previous cases for meth-
amphetamine possession,
and Dima has no previous
cases. Simpson has a
second-degree theft case
pending. The state alleges
Simpson stole watches
worth at least $100 from one
individual.
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pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
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