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Deschutes County cases: 6,097 (8 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 68 (2 new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,990 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 30 (zero new deaths)
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cases
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Jan. 31
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sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth
face covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into
your elbow. 7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
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28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
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16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
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(Nov. 14)
9 new cases
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108 new cases
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COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Friday: 8 (2 in ICU)
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Oregon cases: 159,037 (402 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,319 (3 new deaths)
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Crook County cases: 786 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
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PRINEVILLE
PRINEVILLE
LOCAL BRIEFING
Police: Man forces boy,
11 to steal handgun
Cameron Holt, 33,
charged with theft,
unlawful possession
of a firearm
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
A Prineville man allegedly
forced an 11-year-old relative
to steal a handgun from a fire-
arms store as he looked on.
Cameron Joseph Holt, 33,
is charged in Crook County
Circuit Court with first-de-
gree theft and unlawful pos-
session of a firearm, accord-
ing to court records.
Holt is barred from pos-
sessing firearms due to a prior
felony domestic violence con-
viction.
He’s pleaded not guilty to
the current charges and is due
back in court next month.
On Dec. 7, Todd Stone,
owner of
Prepper Up
in Prineville,
called police
to report that
a child ac-
companied
Holt
by an adult
had stolen a
Glock handgun from his store.
Stone played surveillance
footage for a responding of-
ficer that showed a man and
a boy walking throughout
the store and lingering near a
hard-plastic firearm display
case. When the employees
weren’t looking, the boy al-
legedly lifted the case lid, took
out a pistol and stuffed it in
the front of his waistband.
The two were standing
about 2 feet apart at the time
and when the boy was done,
he looked up at the man,
wrote Prineville Police officer
Daniel Pelayo in a court doc-
ument.
The pistol is a 9 mm G45
model with a gold-plated bar-
rel valued at $660.
Employees reported that af-
ter the boy took the handgun,
he told the man repeatedly
they needed to leave the store,
which they did, court records
state. Pelayo ran a license
plate number through DMV
records and returned Holt’s
name and Stone verified
Holt’s identity by reviewing a
mugshot from a recent arrest.
Records indicated Holt had
an 11-year-old relative.
That month, police used
a drone to establish that the
Hyundai that Holt was seen
driving was present at his
listed address. Police arrested
him on the property.
In 2010, he was convicted
of child neglect and ordered
to attend parenting classes,
among other penalties.
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PORTLAND
PORTLAND
Federal officers deploy impact
munitions, tear gas at protesters
BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
Federal officers on Thurs-
day drove demonstrators
away from the Mark O. Hat-
field U.S. Courthouse in
downtown Portland after
members of the crowd started
a fire and damaged the build-
ing.
Dozens of demonstrators
assembled near the court-
house Thursday night. Some
of those gathered started a fire
and broke glass at the court-
house, according to reports
from the scene.
Federal officers responded
by deploying impact mu-
nitions, tear gas and smoke
bombs, according to lives-
treams and independent
journalists documenting the
demonstration.
The officers drove protest-
ers away from the courthouse
before deploying the tear gas,
according to reports. After-
ward, officers could be heard
on loudspeakers asking peo-
ple not to set fire to the court-
house or otherwise damage
the building.
Tensions soon escalated a
second time, with demonstra-
tors breaking courthouse win-
dows and setting another fire
outside the building.
Federal officers immedi-
ately shot crowd control
munitions at someone who
tried to break a window, then
made an announcement or-
dering people off the prop-
erty.
Officers then deployed
more tear gas to push dem-
onstrators away, according to
reports, and at least one per-
son had been detained as of
10:40 p.m.
Officers drove protesters
away from the building once
more shortly after 11 p.m.
Mayor seeks $2M to stem gun violence
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BY SARA CLINE
The Associated Press/Report for
America
PORTLAND — The mayor
of Portland announced Thurs-
day he would seek $2 million
in one-time funding for police,
other agencies and outreach
programs to try to stem ram-
pant gun violence in the city.
The move by Mayor Ted
Wheeler represents an about-
face after city leaders in June
voted to cut nearly $16 mil-
lion from the police budget,
reductions that included the
elimination of a gun violence
reduction unit. The cuts came
amid racial justice protests
following the police killing of
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Oregon’s largest city has seen
a spike in violence. This year,
there have been 20 homicides,
most the result of shootings.
A group of community
members and leaders sent a
letter to the City Council on
Thursday with a list of actions
they believe will slow gun vi-
olence, including expanding
the ranks of street-level out-
reach workers, increasing gun
crime investigations and re-es-
tablishing a uniformed patrol
team to engage in violence
prevention and response.
THE ULTIMATE
STRESS RELIEF
Mosaic Medical added to
federal vaccine program
Mosaic Medical in Prineville
is one of nine Oregon health
clinics added to a federal
COVID-19 vaccine program
for underserved communities
and areas disproportionately
affected by the virus.
The nine clinics will join the
Health Center COVID-19 Vac-
cine Program over the next six
weeks.
The Health Resources and
Services Administration and
the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention launched
the vaccine program to allocate
vaccines to health centers in
communities with those expe-
riencing homelessness, public
housing residents, migrant and
seasonal agricultural workers
and patients who speak En-
glish as a second language.
Other Oregon cities in the
program include Portland, Or-
egon City, Grants Pass, Tilla-
mook, Eugene and Medford.
Nationwide, about 950 cities
are in the vaccine program.
Bend park district plans
hiring spree for summer
As COVID-19 wanes and
state restrictions start to
loosen, the Bend Park & Rec-
reation District is gearing up
to hire employees for what is
expected to be a busy summer
season.
The district is hiring for
more than 35 full- and part-
time positions in recreation,
custodial services and park
services, according to a news
release from the district.
Open positions are available
for high school students, in-
cluding lifeguards and youth
recreation leaders. Some po-
sitions are already open and
more are expected to be an-
nounced in the coming weeks.
“It’s a great time to consider
a job with the park and rec-
reation district because of the
breadth of openings,” said Na-
talie Broadus-Beard, an HR
Specialist for the district, in the
release. “I encourage commu-
nity members to take a look
and see if our ‘Play for Life’
motto is part of a career path.”
Position details and mini-
mum qualifications are avail-
able on the park district web-
site: bendparksandrec.org/jobs.
Two arrested in drug
operation near school
A Bend man and a La Pine
woman were arrested Wednes-
day in connection to an illegal
drug operation near Ensworth
Elementary School in Bend,
according to
the Deschutes
County Sher-
iff’s Office.
Detectives
searched the
residence of
Jansik
36-year-old
Christopher
Jansik on the
200 block
of Dagget
Lane and
discovered
commercial
amounts of
Sapp
methamphet-
amine and
heroin, a handgun and more
than $1,000 in cash.
Jansik was arrested and
charged with unlawful delivery,
manufacturing and possession
of methamphetamine within
1,000 feet of a school, unlawful
delivery and possession of her-
oin and being a felon in posses-
sion of a firearm.
Amy Jo Sapp, 41, was at the
residence during the search
and was arrested for frequent-
ing a place where controlled
substances are used and giving
false information to a police
officer.
Deschutes County man
faces child porn charges
A Deschutes County man
was arrested this week on sus-
picion of possessing dozens
of images of
child pornog-
raphy.
Peter
L. ¥
Bryan Hi-
att, 72, was
arraigned
Friday in
Hiatt
Deschutes
County Cir-
cuit Court on
20 felony counts of encourag-
ing child sex abuse.
Police were alerted to Hiatt
through a tip. Investigators al-
legedly found on his computer
numerous depictions of chil-
dren being sexually abused.
He was arrested Thursday and
was lodged in the Deschutes
County jail.
The case was started by the
Redmond Police Department
but forwarded to the De-
schutes County Sheriff’s Office
when detectives determined
the alleged crimes were com-
mitted within the sheriff’s of-
fice’s jurisdiction. Investigators
with the sheriff’s office learned
from the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Chil-
dren that victims have been
identified in 59 of the photo-
graphs allegedly found on Hi-
att’s computer.
— Bulletin staff reports
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