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Thursday, January 25, 2018
East Oregonian
PENDLETON
BRIEFLY
Ione music teacher arrested
for sex abuse, more
Photo contributed by Pat Beard
A teen vandal is accused of wreaking havoc on the Pendleton Convention Center on
Tuesday night, causing at least $10,000 in damages.
Teen trashes convention center
Causes at least $10,000 in damages
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Pendleton police arrested
a 13-year-old boy Tuesday
night for smashing into the
city’s convention center and
causing at least $10,000 in
damages. The teen faces
multiple charges.
Pendleton Police Lt.
Charles Byram in a written
statement said alarms went off
at 11:44 p.m. at the Pendleton
Convention Center, 1601
Westgate. Police arrived three
minutes later, he said, and
“found substantial damage to
the exterior of the building.”
Officers encountered a
“well-known” 13-year-old
boy in front of the building
and detained him, according
to Byram, before officers
entered the convention center.
Inside, he said, they found
more damage.
Pat Beard, the convention
center manager, said the
teen threw a cement planter
through the front window to
gain access, and once inside
used a coat rack to break
12-15 more windows.
“We just purchased two
80-inch big screen TVs and
he smashed both of those,”
Beard said.
According to Beard, the
boy broke into and ransacked
meeting rooms, damaged
the main hall that was set up
for a trade show, set off fire
extinguishers and sprayed a
disinfectant on some items,
including a painting.
Beard described the teen’s
actions as “just random
destruction” and said it
will take plenty of working
hours to get the place back
to normal. He estimated
the damage could exceed
$10,000.
City facilities workers
replaced broken light bulbs
and a glass company also
responded to deal with the
windows.
Byram
said
police
learned the boy had been in
the custody of the Oregon
Department of Human
Services but ran away from
the motel room in Hermiston
where two DHS employees
were supervising him. He
took a shuttle bus from
Hermiston to Pendleton.
Byram explained that laws
prohibit DHS employees
from physically restraining
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juveniles in their custody,
and they reported the boy as
a runaway to the Hermiston
Police Department.
Pendleton officers booked
the boy into the juvenile
detention facility in Walla
Walla for second-degree
burglary, first-degree criminal
mischief and second-degree
criminal trespass. During
his arraignment Wednesday
afternoon via video at the
Umatilla County Courthouse,
Pendleton, the boy was a
no-show.
Circuit
Judge
Lynn
Hampton asked staff at the
facility what could happen
if she compelled the teen to
stand before the camera. Staff
said the boy tends to spiral
out of control when forced to
do what he does not want.
Christy Kenny, with the
county’s juvenile department,
agreed it would not help to
force the boy to participate
in the arraignment. She also
said the boy has another case
that is about to close and
could send him to an Oregon
Youth Authority site. She and
deputy district attorney Micah
Johnstone told the court there
is evidence in the new case to
hold him in custody.
Hampton agreed to keep
him in Walla Walla.
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School music teacher Bryan Bates, 24, of
Ione, is under arrest
and accused of sexual
abuse of a student as
well as other charges.
The Morrow
County Sheriff’s Office
in a written statement
reported the arrest
happened Wednesday.
“The incident
occurred on school
property,” according to Bryan Bates
the statement, and “the
victim is a 16-year-old female student.”
The sheriff’s office arrested Bates on
one count of official misconduct, two
counts of harassment and two counts of
third-degree sexual abuse. Bates now is in
the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.
According to Ione Superintendent Jon
Peterson, Bates was in his second year of
teaching K-12 music at the school. He was
placed on administrative leave Tuesday.
Gunman takes $400 from
Milton-Freewater store
Another Milton-Freewater store was the
target of an armed robber.
Milton-Freewater Police Chief Doug
Boedigheimer reported a male with a gun
heisted more than $400 Tuesday evening
from the Neighborhood Grocery, 209
N.W. Eighth Ave. Boedigheimer in an
email stated the suspect entered the store,
demanded money from the cash register and
“brandished what was described as being a
semi-automatic pistol.”
The robber did not fire the gun,
Boedigheimer said, and the store employee
handed over approximately $418 in cash.
Boedigheimer described the suspect as
male who may be Hispanic with a light
complexion, approximately 5 feet 7 inches
tall with a slender build and dark hair. He
also had a goatee type beard and wore a
black hooded-type sweatshirt and a baseball
cap with a black brim.
“The store employee said that
the suspect was unfamiliar to them,”
Boedigheimer stated.
The gunman left no physical evidence,
and it is unknown whether he fled on foot or
in a vehicle, or what direction he went.
Boedigheimer added police collected
video from the store to try to identify the
suspect.
The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office
in mid-December arrested Denis A.
Krivosheenko, 27, of Walla Walla for
the Dec. 6 armed robbery of the First
Stop Mart, 85713 Highway 11, Milton-
Freewater. He is in the Umatilla County
Jail, Pendleton, and faces charges of second-
degree robbery, first-degree theft, menacing
and negotiating a bad check. Court records
show the case goes to trial Feb. 13.
Good Samaritan helps save
man suffering heart attack
A crowd of passing motorists —
including a doctor from Good Shepherd
Medical Center — joined forces to help a
driver suffering a heart attack in Kenne-
wick on Tuesday.
The middle-aged man was turning left
from West Clearwater Avenue onto Steptoe
Street about 7:30 a.m. when he lost control
of his SUV and smashed into a pole, said
Kennewick Officer Cory McGee.
Three passersby were with the driver
when Stephanie Williams, a Kadlec
admissions care specialist, was driving by.
“He didn’t have a pulse, so the four of
us lifted him out and I started compres-
sions,” she said.
That’s when Matthew Carlson showed
up. The doctor was on his way to Good
Shepherd Health Care System in Hermiston
when he stopped to see if he could help.
Together they worked on keeping the
driver alive until emergency crews could
get him to the emergency room at Kadlec
Regional Medical Center.
“The system totally worked,” Carlson
said. “Somebody recognized the need for
CPR and started ... everything worked the
way it was supposed to.”
Williams said she has trained to use
CPR for about 28 years, but never had a
reason to use it. — Tri-City Herald
CTUIR joins coalition
to fight climate change
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation is joining a coalition of
governments that support remaining in the
Paris climate agreement.
At a Portland hotel Thursday, the CTUIR
and seven other Northwest tribes will join
“We Are Still In,” a group of more than
2,500 leaders from tribes, states, cities,
corporations and other organizations who
support “tackling climate change, ensuring a
clean energy future, and upholding the Paris
Climate Agreement,” a press release states.
Representatives from each tribe will
formally sign declarations of support and
make remarks on how climate change is
impacting their community.
In 2015, almost every country signed
onto an accord that required each nation to
take steps to combat climate change and
limit the increase in global temperature.
President Donald Trump announced in
January that the United States intended to
withdraw from the agreement because of the
“draconian financial and economic burdens”
to the United States.
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