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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Sunday, March 21:
Deschutes County cases: 6,173 (11 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 796 (zero new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,002 (1 new case)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 161,531 (224 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,363 (1 new death)
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
129 new cases
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever, coughing and shortness of breath)
can be severe. While some cases are mild, the disease can be fatal.
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap
and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face.
3. Avoid close contact with 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.
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
100
90
80
50
new
cases
70
60
(Feb. 17)
47 new cases
50
(Nov. 14)
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
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(May 20)
1st case
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(March 11)
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Scientists opening new fronts
in war against murder hornets
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Scientists in the U.S. and Canada said Wednesday
that the battle to prevent the so-called murder hor-
nets from establishing a foothold in North America is
being fought mostly in Whatcom County, Washing-
ton, and the nearby Fraser Valley of British Colum-
bia, where the apex predators have been spotted in
recent years.
“This is not a species we want to tolerate here in
the United States,” said Sven-Erik Spichiger of the
Washington state Department of Agriculture, which
eradicated a nest of the Asian giant hornets last year.
“The Asian giant hornet is not supposed to be here.”
“We may not get them all, but we will get as many
as we can,” he said of eradication efforts this year.
Paul van Westendorp of the British Columbia Min-
istry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries said the hor-
nets pose threats to human life, to valuable bee popu-
lations needed to pollinate crops and to other insects.
“It’s an absolutely serious danger to our health and
well-being,” he said. “These are intimidating insects.”
One major front will be setting thousands of traps
this spring to capture queens that are trying to estab-
lish nests, officials said. Both government agencies
and private citizens will set traps, they said.
Another effort is underway to determine exactly
where in Asia these hornets came from, to try and
learn how they are getting across the Pacific Ocean,
scientists said. The theory is they are crossing on
Ted S. Warren/AP file
An Asian giant hornet is held on a pin by Sven Spichiger,
an entomologist with the Washington state Deptartment
of Agriculture, in May. The first confirmed detection of the
“murder hornet” in the United States was in December
2019, in far-northern Washington.
cargo ships, Spichiger said.
While hundreds of the hornets were killed when
the nest in Whatcom County was destroyed in Oc-
tober, only a handful of the hornets were spotted in
British Columbia last year, van Westendorp said.
Whatcom County is about 55 miles south of Van-
couver, British Columbia.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Man arrested after stabbing at Juniper Ridge
A 42-year-old Bend man was arrested Saturday
afternoon after allegedly stabbing another man in
the neck in the Juniper Ridge area on the north end
of Bend.
Marion A. Douglas was lodged in the Deschutes
County jail on suspicion of first-degree assault, un-
lawful use of a weapon and violat-
ing a restraining order.
Just before 3:30 p.m. Saturday, a
38-year-old man called 911 to re-
port he had been stabbed in the
neck, according to the Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly
after that call, Douglas called 911
and reported he had stabbed a man Douglas
who attacked him.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene, they
found a man with multiple stab wounds. Their in-
vestigation found that Douglas had attacked the man
after the victim had arrived at Douglas’ camp to drop
off property belonging to Douglas, according to a
release from the sheriff’s office. Douglas is alleged
to have attacked the man unprovoked, stabbing him
several times, causing life-threatening injuries, ac-
cording to the sheriff’s office. The stabbing victim
was taken to St. Charles Bend.
During the investigation, sheriff’s deputies learned
a woman who had accompanied the stabbing victim
had a restraining order protecting her from Douglas,
and that Douglas and the woman had been in com-
munication about bringing Douglas’ belongings to
his camp.
— Bulletin staff report
PORTLAND
Officer fired after failing
to pursue suspect, blaming
‘Obama administration’
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
A Portland police officer
who deliberately delayed re-
sponding to a welfare check
call in 2019 and then let the
suspect walk away was fired
after he misled internal inves-
tigators about what he did,
according to bureau records
made public this month.
The officer made a bogus re-
mark to witnesses, telling them
something like: “Due to the
Obama administration,” police
don’t chase known suspects,
according to a summary by the
Police Review Board.
The firing was one of seven
officer misconduct cases —
five in 2019 and two in 2020 —
that prompted internal investi-
gations and were summarized
in the board’s March report.
Each of the cases arose from
complaints made by other
members of the Police Bureau.
The Police Bureau publicly
releases the board reports twice
a year but doesn’t name of any
of the officers involved.
In the welfare check case,
sources familiar with the in-
vestigation said it was Andrew
Caspar who was fired.
State records show Caspar
was fired Aug. 18 after going
on leave in August 2019. He
joined the bureau in July 1998.
The Portland Police Associ-
ation is challenging Caspar’s
termination and has been in
arbitration.
The internal review found
that police had reasonable sus-
picion to contact the suspect
for the alleged crime, which
the report didn’t identify.
The officer told investigators
that the matter “didn’t seem
overly pressing” because it in-
volved family members, and
police had the name of the
person who was walking away,
according to the Police Review
Board summary.
The board in October 2019
found that the officer violated
the bureau’s truthfulness di-
rective, acted unprofessionally
and failed to perform police
duties. This “eroded the trust”
of those involved, the sum-
mary report said.
The officer was not hon-
est and omitted information
about the delay in respond-
ing to the call, his statements
to victims and witnesses and
the reason he didn’t contact,
detain or arrest the suspect,
the board found. “Employee 1
omitted their statements about
the Obama administration un-
til they were specifically asked
about it,” the summary said.
Caspar did not respond to
messages seeking comment.
The Police Review Board is
made up of peer officers, su-
pervisors, a community mem-
ber and representative of the
city’s Independent Police Re-
view oversight division.
In another case, a new
trainee complained that a field
training officer twice made
inappropriate, racially based
comments.
The board report also identi-
fied three negligent discharges
of police guns.
An officer preparing for a
shift was doing a “function
check” of an AR-15 rifle, which
discharged in the precinct ar-
mory. The officer didn’t use a
clearing barrel while doing the
check and didn’t insert a yellow
safety block in the magazine
to avoid the discharge, the re-
port said.
The officer relinquished ri-
fle certification and received
a one-day suspension without
pay in March 2020, according
to the report.
Two other officers also re-
ceived one-day suspensions
without pay for negligent dis-
charges of their shotguns, the
report said.
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