Spily^y Tyrnoo, W^rrn S p rin gs, Oregon
Pdge 7
October 19, 2011
Guilty plea in shooting case
In Tribal
Court
Six new tribal court
advocates took the oath
of office last week,
becoming official court
representatives.
The advocates are Justine
“Tina” Aguilar, Dorothy
Kalama, Juanita Villa,
Janell Wallulatum,
Charlene Smith and Gwen
Leonard (from left).
Each of the new
advocates has passed the
tribal court bar exam.
They were sworn in Tribal
Court Chief Judge Susan
Alexander last Friday,
Oct. 14.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
2 years for meth conviction
Births
A iden S torm bringer
L oreen S to rm b rin g er o f
Warm Springs is pleased to an
nounce the birth o f her son
Aiden Stormbringer, born on
October 3, 2011.
A iden
jo in s
brothers
D’Angelo and Rafael.
Grandparents are Jam eson
and Virginia Mitchell of Warm
S p rin gs; also, P atrick and
C arm en M itch ell o f W arm
Springs.
A iyana M ale ah Suppah
B illie Suppah o f W arm
Springs is pleased to announce
the birth of her daughter Aiyana
Maleah Suppah, born on Sep
tember 26, 2011.
Aiyana joins brother Aaron,
and sisters Kaisha and Kanessa.
Grandparent on the father’s
side is Joni Wallulatum.
G randp arents
on the
mother’s side are Lillie and Leslie
Bill; and Ronnie and Peaches
Suppah of Warm Springs.
Howlak Tichum
D ennis G. Andy, 1958-2011
Dennis “Warrior Wascut”
G. Andy passed away on Oc
tober 3, 2011 at Yakim a,
Washington. He was 53.
Mr. Andy was born on
F eb ru ary 8, 1958 in
Toppenish, Washington.
The dressing service was
held at the Merritt Funeral
Home, and the overnight ser
vice was at the 1910 Shaker
Church in White Swan, Wash.
His final resting place is the
Yesmowit Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Lee
W olf, Sid M iller, Reuben
Henry, Frank Miller, Richie
Firley and Rod Brown. Hon
o rary bearers w ere Park
Morrison, Pete Jackson, Joe
Henry, Sharon Wesley, Eddie
A ndy Jr., Jim b o Jackson,
S issy B row n, Sahtanus
Colum cus, and all fam ily
members and friends.
Timber
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N atural R esources was
recommending a cut of 31
million board feet. WSFPI
wanted a cut of 43 million
board feet.
The mill would close if
the 31-million board feet cut
were adopted by Council,
WSFPI officials said. The mill
em ploys over 100 trib al
members and MITs (married
into the tribe).
In recent weeks, mill and
N atural Resource officials
met for further discussion,
and they came up with a fig
ure of 38 million board feet
for the annual allowable cut.
A n o th er 6-10 m illio n
board feet would come from
off-reservation sources. The
mill could continue operating
under this plan, the mill offi
cials said.
T hro ugh W SFPI, the
tribes sell high quality lum
r The next Spilyay
Tymoo deadline is
Friday, Oct. 28.
Thank you!
ber to Japan. The tribes con
tract with Vanport Interna
tional, which markets the tim
ber.
The final decision on the
allowable cut should take into
account a number of factors,
Council members said.
There is the need, for in
stance, to leave a healthy
fo rest for future gen era
tions; and a need also for
local jobs and revenue to
the tribes.
Councilman J.P. Patt said
the timber market is down,
and the decision the tribes
make regarding the allowable
cut has to make business
sense.
Council took no action on
the preliminary recommenda
tion regarding the annual cut,
as the Council members want
additional information and
more time to consider the
matter.
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D arlene D anzuka, 47, o f
Madras, was sentenced on Oct.
11 to two years in prison for
possession with intent to distrib
ute methamphetamine.
The judge in the case also
sentenced D anzuka to three
years supervised supervision fol
lowing the two-year prison term.
The judge ordered Danzuka,
known also as Darlene Highfill,
to surrender to the Bureau of
Prisons to begin serving her
prison sentence on January 3,
2012 .
According to the prosecutor,
Danzuka previously lived on the
W arm Springs R eservatio n.
While living on the reservation,
Warm Springs police learned
that she was selling metham
phetamine out of her house.
Warm Springs police subse-
quendy obtained search warrants
for Danzuka’s house and truck.
When police executed the search
warrants, they found over an
ounce o f m etham phetam ine,
including multiple bundles pack
aged for sale, a digital scale, and
drug packaging materials.
“Methamphetamine dealers
seek profit from people who are
addicted,” said Bill W illiams,
chief of the criminal division
for the U. S. Attorney’s Office
for the D istrict o f O regon.
“Our office will prosecute those
who bring this drug into tribal
communities,” he said.
“I wasn’t allowed to use the
letter that I wrote in court,”
Danzuka said. “But I wanted
to say that I’m sorry to the fam
ily and to the com m unity.
Mosdy, I’m sorry that I let my
bus kids down.”
Alcohol and drugs are no so
lution, Danzuka said.
“They get you into trouble.
I’ve learned a lot, and I still have
more learning to do. It’s going
to take me five years to finish
this lesson. But I have a goal to
strive for now. I never once said
that I was not guilty. I believe
honesty is best.”
Since her arrest, Danzuka
has been an active participant
in an alcohol and drug treatment
center.
This case was investigated by
the Warm Springs Police Depart
ment and the Bend FBI office.
The case was prosecuted by
Assistant U. S. Attorney Craig
Gabriel. Presiding judge was U.S.
D istrict Ju d g e A ncer L.
Haggerty
Salmon eggs appear to
survive ditch failure
MEDFORD AP) - Salmon
eggs appear to have survived a
threat from muddy water that
washed into a prime spawning
ground in southern Oregon af
ter an irrigation ditch failed.
Earlier this month, biologists
said they feared the plume of
red clay would smother millions
of the spring chinook eggs in a
tributary of the Rogue River
and in the river itself. Surveys
since then have turned up no
dead eggs in the nests, called
redds, fish biologist Jay Doino
of the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife.
Most of the clay passed over
the nests and only “a very fine
layer” settled on them, he said.
“We may have dodged a bul
let, but it still warrants more in
vestigation,” he said. More sur
veys were planned. The area
along nine miles of Big Butte
Creek and about two miles of
the Rogue River downstream of
the creek’s mouth is a major
portion of spawning grounds
for the R ogue’s w ild spring
chinook.
About half of this year’s wild
run had already spawned. The
young fish head out to the
ocean, and those that survive
return four years later to spawn.
R eb u ild in g runs o f w ild
spring chinook has been the top
priority of state fish biologists
working on the Rogue, where
three dams have been taken
down to help the fish. In recent
years, as the w ild stocks
struggled, more than half the
run has been hatchery fish.
The ru n o ff cam e from a
1921 ditch that serves 560
farmers. About 100 feet of it
washed out just as the irrigation
season was at its end. Repairs
will take a month, said David
Ford, manager of Eagle Point
Irrigation District. The goal was
to be finished before the winter
rains.
Ted L. B arney Jr., 23, o f
Warm Springs, entered a guilty
plea on Oct. 3 to second-degree
murder.
In entering the plea, Barney
admitted that he fired a 9mm
handgun on Ju ly 26, 2011 in
Warm Springs, killing 24-year-
old Delmer Davis.
A ccording to the govern
ment, on July 26, 2011 on the
reservation, Barney was a pas
senger in a car driving in West
Hills.
A man standing in the drive
way of a home in the neighbor
hood threw a rock at Barney’s
car as it drove by.
The rock missed the car, but
Barney told the driver to turn
around and stop the car.
Barney got out of the car and
approached the man in the
driveway, who was about 7 5 feet
away, acco rding to the U.S.
Attorney’s Office.
Barney then Began shooting
with the handgun. The man hid
behind a vehicle in the driveway.
Barney fired approximately
five shots, according to the U.S.
Attorney.
The gu n fire did not hit
Barney’s intended target, the
man who threw a rock.
However, one of the bullets
from the gun went through the
window of the vehicle the man
was hiding behind, hitting a man
sitting in the car.
Delmer Davis was sitting in
the vehicle holding his infant son.
Mr. Davis was hit in the head
with the bullet that went through
that vehicle’s window
Mr. Davis died en route to
the hospital as a result of that
wound.
Barney may not have realized
he hit anybody, as the windows
of the vehicle were tinted, the
U.S. Attorney’s report indicates.
Barney turned himself in to
the Warm Springs Police Depart
ment later that day, when he
learned the police were looking
for him.
Barney provided the hand
gun to the Warm Springs Police,
and after police read him his
M iranda rights, Barney con
fessed that he was the shooter,
according to the report.
He said he was aiming to hit
another man in the driveway.
Sentencing in the case is
scheduled for Dec. 12, before
Judge Ancer L. Haggerty.
Under the terms of a plea
agreem ent, the parties have
agreed to recommend a prison
sentence of 18 years.
The Warm Springs Police
Department and FBI investi
gated the case. Assistant U.S.
Attorney Craig Gabriel is han
dling the criminal prosecution.
Man arraigned on abuse charges
Harry Hintsala, 61, of Warm
Springs, appeared in federal
court on Monday for his ar
raignment on an eight-count in
dictment charging aggravated
sexual abuse and abusive sexual
contact of minors.
The crimes of aggravated
sexual abuse and abusive sexual
contact carry maximum penal
ties of life in prison and fines
o f $250,000.
Trial is scheduled for Decem
ber 13, 2011, before United
States D istrict Judge Michael
Mosman. Hintsala was released
to a halfway house in the Port
land area pending trial.
Conditions o f his pretrial
release prohibit him from hav
ing any contact with minors
and require him to wear a GPS
m o n ito rin g b ra c e le t at a ll
times.
The indictment charges that
betw een 2007 and 2011,
Hintsala sexually abused five
girls on the reservation. All of
the alleged victims were under
12 years old at the time of the
sexual abuse.
A c c o rd in g
to
the
p r o s e c u to r’s state m e n ts in
court, Hintsala was previously
a Warm Springs police officer,
and he had also p rev io u sly
w o rk ed as a s u p e rv is o r at
Warm Springs Children Pro
te c tiv e S e rv ic e s , and as a
teacher at Head Start.
All of the alleged abuse oc
curred after Hintsala had re
tired from those public posi
tions. The abuse is alleged to
have taken place in defendant’s
residence.
“Sexual abuse o f children is
a heinous and tragic crim e,”
said S. A m an d a M a rsh a ll,
United States Attorney for the
District of Oregon. “Our of
fice will make every effort to
bring sexual predators to jus
tice.”
This case is being investigated
by the Warm Springs Police
Department and the Bend FBI
office. The case is being pros
ecuted by Assistant U.S. Attor
ney Craig Gabriel.
An indictment is only an al
legation of criminal activity. The
defendant is presumed innocent
until proven guilty in court. The
arraignment was before United
States Magistrate Judge John V.
Acosta
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