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November 25, 2004
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Charles Tailfeathers addresses the middle school assembly.
Tailfeathers: parade
honors veterans
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"I grew up to really ap-
preciate what we have in the
Gangs: victims
include the elderly
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"We do know of a major
meth dealer who's the primary
dealer for both of those gangs
and members of both gangs are
running drugs for him."
The gangs are armed, Soules
said.
"As a gang member, if you
carry a firearm, that gives you
respect from the other gang
members," he said. "And in
gangs, respect is very important.
They have kind of a warped
sense of what respect is. It's their
own code of respect, but 're
spect' is everything.
"Are we seeing guns in the
local community? Holy cow, yes.
Just about every time we have
an interaction with them, one of
them has a gun."
He described a high-speed
pursuit Warm Springs officers
had with a known gang mem
ber. "He fired a minimum of five
shots out of a .380 caliber hand
gun at police officers during the
chase," he said. "He was able to
escape and run. We know who
he was, and we're in the process
of scientifically investigating, so
we can charge him through
DNA and other forensic evi
dence, to prove who he is and
prosecute him through the fed
eral system."
During the weekend of Nov.
13-14, police had impounded 10
vehicles from gang members
who ran away. With those va
cated cars come weapons.
The initiation to gang life
starts early, Soules said, even
with children as young as eight
years old.
"Third-, fourth-, fifth-grad
ers, they're vulnerable. You see
everything on the movies in the
last many, many years, glamor
izing gangs, making gangs look
cool," he said. "Kids see that and
they're vulnerable and if the
right people pay attention to
them, these people can introduce
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He then led the middle
school assemblage in a spirited
chant of "U-S-A." Following the
assembly, which included several
them to drugs or alcohol."
The most at-risk gang mem
bers, Smith said, are between 16
and 22 years old.
On the same note, Soules
said there is no such thing as
"wannabe" gang members.
"If you call yourself a gang
member, you behave like a gang
member, you commit crimes
like a gang member, and you do
it with other people who all call
themselves members of a gang,
you're a gang," he said. "And to
minimize that, it's not 'respect'ing
the gang member. If you call him
a 'wannabe,' when he's being the
real thing, what's that gang mem
ber likely to do? Go out and
commit more crimes to prove
to you, the community, that this
gang is for real."
Gang-related crime also af
fects innocent victims on the
reservation, particularly tribal
elders, the police chief said.
"It breaks my heart to hear
about people being afraid in their
own home, to be afraid to leave
their homes because, one, they
might get assaulted when they
leave, and two, someone might
burglarize their home when they
are gone," he said. "Is that hap
pening in Warm Springs? Yes, it
is."
He said an elderly woman
called his office and said her
own grandchildren were stealing
her belongings. Another said she
is afraid to wash her dishes.
While the Warm Springs Po
lice Department uses its man
power and resources in attempt
ing to stop gang activity, citizens
can help by providing informa
tion to the authorities when
they're aware of crimes about
to occur or when they are vic
tims of crimes.
Soules assured the small as
sembly that his officers would
do their best to aggressively
pursue individuals who commit
gang-related crime yet remain
courteous when dealing with
tribal members.
"We don't want to mistreat
anybody," he said. "I've told my
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local veterans in attendance,
the students and adult ob
servers formed a parade
around the school grounds
to honor the veterans.
"I've told my officers to
treat people with re
spect, but You go after
people who are hurting
other people.'"
Jim Soules
Police chief
officers to treat people with re
spect, but 'You go after, people
who are hurting other people.'"
Smith admitted potential wit
nesses are sometimes afraid to
help police for fear of reprisals
from gang members. "Here,
we're trying to change that to get
people to come up and help us."
Soules said he has asked tribal
utility entities to paint over
spray-painted gang markings,
known as "tags".
Tyler Barlowe, a traditional
counselor from the Klamath
Tribes, was also part of the
workshop. In his capacity, he
provides counseling and preven
tion, combining traditional Na
tive methods with Western heal
ing methods.
"What's going to save us is
already here," he said. "It's our
heritage. It's our birthright."
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Currently a groundwater
monitor is in use, to help pre
vent contamination of ground
water.
The landfill is located off of
Highway 3 and has been there
since the 1970s. Since the re
cycle program came into effect
in 1997, the landfill has been
arranged to help residents sort
recycled tires, appliances and
cars.
Recently, the transfer stations
were arranged for residents to
make a one-stop drop of
recyclables and garbage.
There are four transfer sta
tions. They are located at
Seekseequa, ' Simnasho,
Sidwalter and Agency areas. It
is the goal of the program to
Break-in: near duplicate to one several months ago
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Robert Macy said he first no
ticed something wasn't right
when he and his wife Rosa came
to the store to catch up on some
work Nov. 7.
They noticed the store's tele
phone wires and communication
lines to a security system had
been cut. The wires, Robert
Macy said, are exposed on the
outside of the building.
He said he called the police
to investigate the cut wires, but
he hadn't yet considered the
possibility of a break-in.
One of his employees no
ticed the break-in when she re
ported for work at 6:30 a.m. to
open the store at 7 a.m. She
entered the building through the
office door, the only access to
the store available without trip
ping the store's alarm.
"She noticed as soon as she
stepped inside," Robert Macy
said. "She saw all of the (ciga
rette) lighter boxes and no light
ers. In addition to lighters, the
burglars took an assortment of
cigarettes, chewing tobacco, BBs,
carbon dioxide cartridges, and
shoe polish.
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recycle more materials and be
come consistent with their pick
up schedules throughout the
community. Becoming consis
tent in turn further encourages
those who already do recycle. It
is believed that without this con
sistency people will tend to just
throw away their paper or other
materials.
The garbage trucks have been
modified to receive and separate
recycled batteries and used oil,
these items need to be placed
next to garbage and labeled as
used batteries, or used oil.
In the past ceremonial burn
ing took place in the landfill and
it created a smoldering that went
on for days. So to prevent this
from happening, there is a sec
tion for ceremonial burning and
The burglars, Robert Macy
said, were rather particular, tak
ing name brands like Marlboro
and Camel cigarettes and
Kodiak chewing tobacco, but
leaving generic brands.
Though the burglars appar
ently took BBs, Macy said it did
not appear as if rifle or hand
gun cartridges or shotgun shells
had been taken.
The burglars broke in, Macy
said, through a locked door to
an unused Laundromat in the
basement of the building.
They then broke through a
door adjoining the Laundromat
to the rest of the basement and
then through a door from the
basement to the store area up
stairs. He said the door between the
Laundromat and rest of the
basement was much more se
cure than the door to the store
area and thus took more effort.
"They had to kick the lock
off and the plate (in the jamb)
around it," he said. "The door
leading into the store was not
strong. It was just an interior
door."
Robert Macy said the crime
was "damn near a duplicate" to
restrictions take effect
Pharmacy, are designed to slow
the state's methamphetamine
problem. Cold remedies such as
Sudafed contain the main ingre
dients in the manufacture of the
powerfully addictive and cheap
street drug.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski's Meth
amphetamine Task Force rec
ommended the restrictions,
which are modeled on those at
work in Oklahoma.
Methamphetamine fuels 85
percent of the state's property
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During the past year, 1,100
cars were crushed and recycled.
That is a lot of cars, but it barely
put a dent into the amount of
cars needing to be disposed of.
There will be an opportunity in
the future to do this again. Resi
dents will be informed on the
process it will take place.
Also in the future of recy
cling, the program would like to
purchase a small baler for
smaller items like milk cartons,
and providing composting to
produce a good soil.
Recycling is something that
takes that little extra time, but
in the long run the landfill will
be there for a longer amount of
time for the tribes' use.
when the store was broken into
several months ago, as far as the
way they got inside the building,
the way the wires were cut, the
items taken, down to the brand
of cigarettes taken.
He said the earlier break-in
resulted in a loss of about
$6,000, "about a thousand (dol
lars) less than this time."
"We've now lost about
$14,000 in retail value," he said.
Soules, who said others are
still being investigated in connec
tion to the crime, would not re
veal any more details about the
case, including how Hammond
and the two juveniles were
caught.
"We arrested them after thor
ough investigation and hard
work, and by making contacts
with people and following leads,"
he said.
Robert Macy said he and his
wife had not contacted his in
surance company regarding the
loss.
The Warm Springs Market,
Macy said, was purchased by his
father in 1944, when Robert
Macy was six years old and has
been in the family since then.
and identity-theft crimes, and is
the leading reason Oregon chil
dren are removed from their
homes and placed in long-term
foster care, the governor said
when announcing the plan.
Moreover, Oregon treats
more people for meth addiction
per capita than any other state
in the country. Many stores and
pharmacies were rearranging
their stock this weekend to get
the affected drugs into secure
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