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Officers describe faint whimper,
finding abandoned infant in woods
BRIEFLY
Herbicide may
have killed other
trees in central
Oregon
By MATT VOLZ
Associated Press
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP)
— A faint whimper in the
darkness was all it took.
Missoula County Sher-
iff’s Deputy Ross Jessop
and U.S. Forest Service
Law Enforcement Officer
Nick Scholz rushed toward
the sound after hours spent
searching the Montana
woods for a missing infant.
Jessop was about to take
another step when he heard
a stick crack underfoot. He
looked down to find a cold,
wet, soiled 5-month-old boy
face-down under a pile of
debris.
“I abandoned any police
training or any chance of sav-
ing evidence there — I didn’t
care,” Jessop, a father of
three, told reporters on Tues-
day. “I scooped up the baby,
made sure he was breathing.
He had a sparkle in his eye.
(I) warmed him up, gave him
a couple of kisses and just
held him.”
The baby, who had been
abandoned for at least nine
hours before Jessop and
Scholz found him at 2:30
a.m. Sunday, was cold, hun-
gry and had scrapes and
bruises, but was otherwise
in good condition. They
wrapped him in a coat and
carried the boy out of the
woods to safety.
“It was the happiest 15-20
minutes of my career,”
Scholz said of the walk out.
“I was just stunned. Walk-
ing in to this situation, you
were mentally prepared for
the worst.”
The baby drank a whole
bottle of Pedialyte in under
a minute, then drank two
more, said Missoula County
Sheriff’s Capt. Bill Burt.
The baby’s tiny, dirty hand
grasped Burt’s finger with
surprising strength, then he
fell soundly asleep as hospi-
tal officials hooked him up to
an IV, Burt said.
The rescue that Sheriff
T.J. McDermott called a mir-
acle was recounted moments
before Francis Crowley, 32,
appeared in court to hear
charges against him that
Missoula County Sheriff’s Office via AP
This Sunday photo provided by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office shows a 5-month-
old infant with dirt under his fingernails after authorities say the baby survived about
nine hours being buried under sticks and debris in the woods.
AP Photo/Matt Volz
included assault on a minor
and criminal endangerment.
Crowley told investiga-
tors he left the boy in the
woods after crashing his car
because the baby was heavy,
according to court records.
He appeared in Missoula
County Justice Court from
jail by video, and he broke
down repeatedly as he heard
the allegations against him.
Crowley doubled over,
then fell to the floor and cov-
ered his face with his hands,
sobbing. He exclaimed
twice, “I love that f------
kid,” and implored the judge
not to take him away.
Public defender Ted Fell-
man said Crowley had no
money and was living near
Lolo Hot Springs. Sher-
iff’s officials said Crowley,
the child’s mother and the
boy were living in a camp
near the hot springs in Lolo
National Forest.
Crowley is from Portland,
Oregon, and was previously
arrested in June in Missoula
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Hot with plenty of
sunshine
95° 63°
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LOW
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88°
106° (1975)
61°
58°
40° (1911)
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
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July 12
July 19
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Seattle
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3:52 a.m.
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Last
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Aug 4
Today
SUNDAY
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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GRANTS PASS (AP)
— Authorities have iden-
tified a woman who they
say fatally shot her 8-year-
Spokane
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John Day
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sky tonight. Hot tomorrow.
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tomorrow.
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able to contact the build-
ing’s owners.
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show Irene and Devon
Huntley bought the build-
ing in 2015. Morris said
they were renovating
the building, which had
been used as an insur-
ance office, to become a
restaurant.
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tion was immediately
available.
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on a fugitive warrant from
Oregon for a probation viola-
tion, Missoula County pros-
ecutors said. He has a string
of prior arrests that include
burglary, assault, drug and
criminal mischief charges,
Deputy County Attorney
Brittany Williams said.
The nature of Crowley’s
relationship to the baby was
not immediately clear.
Crowley did not enter a
plea during the court hear-
ing. Judge Marie Ander-
sen set bail at $200,000 and
scheduled his next court date
for July 25.
Deputies were called to
Lolo Hot Springs at 8 p.m.
Saturday because Crowley
was creating a disturbance
and threatening to fire a gun,
Missoula County prosecu-
tors said.
Crowley was disoriented,
likely because of drug use,
and unable to help officers
find the baby or say how long
ago the crash had occurred,
charging documents said. He
variously said the baby was
lying on the side of the road
or had died and was buried in
the woods.
From left, Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy Ross Jes-
sop, U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer Nick
Scholz and Sheriff T.J. McDermott answer questions on
Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in Missoula, Mont.
— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
TODAY
BEND (AP) — A
weed-killer that killed
thousands of ponder-
osa pines near Sisters has
been linked to the deaths
of other trees outside the
Sunriver resort commu-
nity and possibly across
Oregon.
An
investigation
spurred by the incident
in Sisters found that the
active ingredient in the
product known as Per-
spective may have killed
dozens of ponderosa pines
outside Sunriver and
other trees in central Ore-
gon, said Dale Mitchell,
an Oregon Department
of Agriculture program
manager. The department
monitors pesticides and
herbicides in Oregon.
“We are looking at
gathering
additional
information on this ingre-
dient,” Mitchell said.
The Deschutes County
Road Department sprayed
the herbicide along two
main roads that lead in
and out of Sunriver in
2013 and 2014, the Bulle-
tin reported . The roadside
spraying is done to reduce
the amount of flamma-
ble grass, said Chris Doty,
the road department’s
director.
Employees for the road
department and the U.S.
Forest Service found pon-
derosa pines with brown
and ill-formed needles in
the area where the her-
bicide was applied and
reported it to the agricul-
ture department.
Results from test-
ing in 2015 showed that
the damage had spread,
according to a U.S. Forest
Service report.
old son and then herself at
a home in Grants Pass.
Grants Pass police Lt.
Todd Moran says 27-year-
old Rachel Shoemaker
died at a local hospital
and the boy died as he was
being prepared for an air-
lift to a Portland hospital.
Shoemaker’s
boy-
friend alerted police Sun-
day morning. He is not the
child’s father.
A neighbor told the
Daily Courier newspaper
she heard commotion at
about 9:30 a.m., and saw
a man using a cellphone
leave the house. She said
he was yelling, “Where’s
the ambulance?”
Moran said detec-
tives believe it was a mur-
der-suicide, and the inves-
tigation is coming to a
close.
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Severe storms will riddle the Upper Midwest.
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High 105° in Needles, Calif.
Low 35° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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