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COVID-19 data for Thursday, May 27:
Deschutes County cases: 9,564 (41 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 79 (1 new death)
Crook County cases: 1,195 (4 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,289 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (1 new death)
Oregon cases: 199,784 (399 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,660 (21 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 41 (5 in ICU)
New COVID-19 cases per day
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(May 8)
103 new cases
(April 23)
(July 16)
110
100
(Nov. 27)
90
74 new cases
80
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
60
50
16 new cases
40
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unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
March 2020
120
(Nov. 14)
9 new cases
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LOCAL BRIEFING
OREGON POLITICS
‘Second Amendment
Sanctuary’ order is
invalid, AG argues
BY ANNA DEL SAVIO
Pamplin Media Group
Oregon’s attorney general
and a group of Columbia
County residents are getting
involved in the ongoing legal
proceedings over the county’s
Second Amendment Sanctu-
ary Ordinance.
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum, through senior as-
sistant attorney general Brian
Simmonds Marshall, filed a
document in the case, request-
ing that the ordinance be de-
clared invalid.
Rosenblum wrote that the
county ordinance and the two
ballot measures it was based on
“conflict with and are incom-
patible with the state’s crim-
inal laws … the duties of the
Columbia County sheriff, the
duties of the Columbia County
district attorney, and the du-
ties of other offers and depart-
ments of Columbia County.”
Four Columbia County res-
idents also filed to appear as
“interested parties” in oppo-
sition to the ordinance. The
four residents are Brandee
Dudzic, a 2020 candidate for
the county board of commis-
sioners; Shana Cavanaugh,
the founder of the progressive
group Moving Forward Co-
lumbia County; Robert Pile,
a member of the gun control
organization Moms Demand
Action; and Joe Lewis, a for-
mer Scappoose School Board
member who was one of nine
people injured at the Kent State
shooting in 1970, when Ohio
National Guard members fa-
tally shot four people protest-
ing the Vietnam War.
The four are represented
by attorneys from the Oregon
firm Stoll Berne, but are ask-
ing the court to allow two New
York-based attorneys to join
the case. The attorneys, Mark
Weiner and Len Kamdang, are
with Everytown Law, the liti-
gation arm of the gun control
nonprofit Everytown for Gun
Safety.
“We have a range of opin-
ions in Columbia County on
many issues, including gun
laws, but tying the hands of
law enforcement officials here
in Columbia County is not the
answer,” Pile said in a press re-
lease from Everytown Law.
Eric Tirschwell, managing
director for Everytown Law,
said in a press release that Or-
egon law and the U.S. constitu-
tion “make clear that local gov-
ernments don’t have the legal
authority to pick and choose
which public safety laws apply
within their borders.”
“Groups that oppose state
and federal gun laws have ev-
ery right to try to change them
in the statehouse and Con-
gress, but claiming to nullify
them at the local level is both
unconstitutional and danger-
ous. That’s not how our de-
mocracy works,” Tirschwell
said.
In a Jan. 21 letter to Colum-
bia County attorney Sarah
Hanson, attorneys from Stoll
Berne and Everytown Law ar-
gued that the county ordinance
was not permissible under
state and federal law and rec-
ommended that the county use
the state’s procedure for judi-
cial validation proceedings.
Chris Brumbles, a Columbia
County resident and gun rights
activist who filed both ballot
measures, said that he dis-
agrees with the county’s choice
to pursue judicial validation.
“I think they did this so
that they could get it in front
of a judge, so the judge could
throw it out. I hope I’m wrong.
I’ve never hoped I was wrong
more,” Brumbles said.
“As far as I’m concerned, this
is a huge attack on the will of
the people. The people voted
these laws in not once, but
twice,” Brumbles added. “If this
was happening to the other
side, I think there would be an
uproar.”
As of May 7, the county
hasn’t filed any briefs in sup-
port of or in opposition to the
ordinance.
The petition for judicial val-
idation filed by the county in
late March did not ask for a
particular verdict. Instead, it
laid out the issues to consider
in evaluating the legality and
constitutionality of the ordi-
nance.
Voters approved a version of
the Second Amendment Sanc-
tuary Ordinance last year. The
ordinance would effectively bar
local law enforcement from en-
forcing almost any restrictions
on gun sales or ownership
within Columbia County.
3 teens injured in
morning car rollover
near Skyliners Road
Three Bend teenagers
were hospitalized after a sin-
gle-car crash near Skyliners
Road early Thursday morn-
ing.
Deschutes County Sher-
iff ’s deputies received a call
at about 1:01 a.m. about the
crash, at the bridge near Sky-
line Drive west of Bend, ac-
cording to a sheriff ’s office
press release.
Deputies — alongside rep-
resentatives from Bend Fire
Department, Bend Police
Department and others —
found a Honda CR-V rolled
over onto its top, with one of
the teens trapped inside, the
release stated.
The three teenagers at the
crash scene — all 16-year-
old boys from Bend — were
taken to St. Charles Bend
with serious injuries, the re-
lease stated. One teen was
taken to the hospital by air
ambulance.
The incident is being in-
vestigated, but law enforce-
ment believes alcohol may
have contributed to the
crash, the release stated.
California man arrested
in Bend for alleged
contracting fraud
A California man was ar-
rested by Deschutes County
Sheriff ’s deputies Thurs-
day on suspicion of theft by
fraud after allegedly scam-
ming Central Oregonians
with a fake
contracting
business.
A sher-
iff ’s detec-
tive began
receiving
complaints
Quesada
from De-
schutes
and Crook county residents
in March about “Quesada
Handyman Service” and a
man named Jacob Quesada,
29, according to a sheriff ’s
office press release.
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Three Bend teenagers were hospitalized after a single-car crash near
Skyliners Road early Thursday morning.
Quesada — a Lodi, Cali-
fornia, resident — allegedly
collected money for con-
tracting work such as paint-
ing and flooring and decking
installations, despite not be-
ing licensed or insured to do
that work, the release stated.
Quesada would advertise
his services on Facebook,
and locals would make down
payments in person, the re-
lease stated. However, he
allegedly never returned to
the project in some cases,
and other times, he’d only
partly finish the work or do
a poor job, according to the
sheriff ’s office.
Quesada was stopped
Thursday in Bend for a traf-
fic violation and then ar-
rested on a Crook County
theft warrant, the release
stated.
Those who may have been
scammed by Quesada are
encouraged to call the De-
schutes County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice at 541-550-4869 or 541-
693-6911, the release stated.
Police ID suspect in
weekend stabbing,
seek help finding him
Bend Police have a suspect
in a double stabbing over the
weekend, but they are seek-
ing help finding him.
Detectives w ant to talk
to Eric David Taylor, 21,
of Redmond, according to
Bend Lt. Brian Beekman.
“We’ve contacted family,
associates, gone to known
addresses — pretty much all
investigative leads for the
past three days,” Beekman
said. “I believe he’s actively
avoiding
us.”
Around
10 p.m.,
Saturday,
police re-
sponded to
a fight in
the parking
Taylor
lot of the
StoneBriar apartments in the
21000 block of U.S. High-
way 20 in Bend. Witnesses
described numerous people
fighting.
Two male stabbing victims
were sent to St. Charles Bend
with non-life threatening in-
juries, according to police.
No arrests were made at the
time.
Beekman said Taylor is the
only suspect.
The department is ask-
ing people with information
about Taylor to contact the
Deschutes County nonemer-
gency dispatch line at 541-
693-6911.
Taylor is believed to be
driving a blue 2004 Subaru
Forester with the Oregon li-
cense plate number 108EZZ.
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