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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
DESCHUTES COUNTY
New COVID-19 cases per day
129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Thursday, June 17:
Deschutes County cases: 9,974 (11 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 81 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,285 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,361 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 205,988 (300 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,745 (1 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 18 (5 in ICU)
110
74
new
cases
100
90
(April 10)
80
50
new
cases
*Jan. 31: No
data reported.
June 10:
Number
includes several
days of data
due to a
reporting delay.
70
60
50
40
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
EMAIL
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average
(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
120
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(Feb. 17)
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130
115 new
cases
(Jan. 1)
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
(April 29)
108 new cases
90
new
cases
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
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(May 20)
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10
(March 11)
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ONTARIO
Man pleads guilty to hate
crime in stabbing of Black man
The Associated Press
EUGENE — A Colorado
man accused of stabbing an-
other man in a racist attack
at an Oregon truck stop has
pleaded guilty to a federal hate
crime.
Nolan Levi Strauss pleaded
guilty Thursday to a hate crime
involving an attempt to kill, ac-
cording to a news release from
the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
On Dec. 21, 2019, a man
was sitting in a booth at an
Arby’s restaurant in a Pilot
Travel Center in Ontario wait-
ing to talk with a manager about
a job, court documents said.
Strauss entered the building, ap-
proached the man from behind
and stabbed the man twice in
the neck, documents said.
The man tried to take the
knife, and managed to pre-
vent Strauss from stabbing him
again, documents said. The
victim broke free from Strauss’s
grip and ran across the restau-
rant before collapsing, doc-
uments said. The man was
flown to Boise, Idaho for emer-
gency surgery.
A maintenance worker used
a belt to secure Strauss’s hands
behind his back and waited for
police, documents said. Strauss
told the worker that he doesn’t
like Black people, documents
said.
Strauss was arrested and ad-
mitted he was trying to kill the
man because was he was Black,
documents said.
Strauss faces a maximum
sentence of life in prison.
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End-of-year classes at Cascade Middle School
canceled because of power failure
Power failure and disruptions to its HVAC system forced the
closure of Cascade Middle School on Thursday, the final day of
the school year.
Families were advised by phone and email Thursday morn-
ing against coming to school. The school reported the power
failure had caused the HVAC system to fail, resulting in electri-
cal equipment smoke in the building. The unit was shut down
and isolated. Later, the school’s main transformer also failed.
End-of-year celebrations for eighth-grade students, which
were planned for Thursday, are under review and will be com-
municated to students on Thursday, according to the school.
Prineville man pleads not guilty to child sex abuse
A Prineville man faces a slew of charges alleging he sexually
abused a young girl and was physically abusive with his spouse.
Jesse James Bacchus, 33, was arraigned on a new indictment
Thursday in Crook County Circuit Court. He pleaded not
guilty to the 13 charges, including the Measure 11 offense of
first-degree sexual abuse.
Measure 11 mandates strict sentencing for serious violent
and sex-based crimes in Oregon.
Bacchus is accused of domestic violence against a woman
named in his indictment, and sexual abuse of an unnamed
girl who was born in 2005. The alleged conduct took place last
summer in Prineville.
Thursday morning, a grand jury approved an updated in-
dictment alleging new child abuse allegations from May. Bac-
chus was arraigned on the new indictment in the afternoon.
Bacchus is now charged with sodomy, coercion, menacing,
unlawful use of a weapon, rape, sex abuse and reckless endan-
gering.
He’s currently listed as an inmate of the Crook County jail. A
judge set his bond at $250,000, meaning he must pay $25,000
to be released.
Washington man accused of fatally shooting
neighbor over engine revving
Officers resign from
protest response unit
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Officers
who serve on a specialized
crowd control unit in Port-
land who have responded to
the city’s ongoing, often violent
protests have resigned en masse
after criminal charges were
filed against a team member.
The Oregonian reports the
officers on the Rapid Response
Team voted to resign from
the team during a meeting
Wednesday night.
The move to disband their
own team came a day after a
team member, officer Cody
Budworth, was indicted, ac-
cused of fourth-degree assault
stemming from a baton strike
against a protester last summer.
A year ago, about 70 members
were on the team.
The team has been on the
front lines at social justice pro-
tests held in the city after the
May 25, 2020, murder of George
Floyd, a Black man who died af-
ter a Minneapolis police officer
knelt on his neck and pinned
him to the pavement.
Many demonstrations de-
volved into clashes with offi-
cers late at night, and at times
ended with vandalism, prop-
erty damage and fires. The
crowd control team was the
unit often directed to disperse
crowds after police declared
unlawful assemblies or riots.
Their use of force has led to
multiple civil lawsuits in state
and federal court, sanctions
from a judge and now an in-
dictment.
In late October, the presi-
dent of the police union, the
Portland Police Association,
sent the mayor and police chief
a letter, urging both to “stand
up and publicly support Police
Bureau members who volun-
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sponse Team (RRT).”
“Our RRT members do not
volunteer to have Molotov
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VANCOUVER, Wash. — A man in southwestern Washing-
ton is accused of murder after investigators say he confronted
his neighbor about noise created by revving an engine.
The victim was identified in court records as 39-year-old
Timothy A. Thomas, The Columbian reported.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies say Thomas was shot multi-
ple times Tuesday in Battle Ground and died at the scene.
Presley Mileck, 50, appeared Wednesday in Clark County
Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree murder. Judge
Daniel Stahnke set Mileck’s bail at $1 million. It wasn’t imme-
diately known if Mileck has a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
— Bulletin staff report
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