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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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C OPS & C OURTS
Arrests and citations in
the Blue Mountain Eagle are
taken from the logs of law
enforcement agencies. Every
effort is made to report the
court disposition of arrest
cases.
Oregon State Police
• Sept. 26: OSP received a
report of a headless antelope
carcass on private land. An
ODFW trooper from John
Day responded and found
the remains had been scat-
tered by bear activity. The
property would not have had
any hunters on it during an-
telope season. The investiga-
tion is open.
• Sept. 30: Arrested
26-year-old Adam Garrett
Jennings on a Grant County
arrest warrant for failure to
appear. He was transport-
ed to and lodged in Grant
County Jail.
Grant County Sheriff
CANYON CITY — The
Grant County Sheriff’s Of-
fice reported the following
for the week of: Sept. 29.
• Concealed handgun
licenses: 5
• Average inmates: 15
• Bookings: 11
• Releases: 9
• Fingerprints: 7
• Civil papers: 19
• Warrants processed: 4
• Asst./welfare check: 3
Justice Court
CANYON CITY — The
Grant County Justice Court
reported the following fines
and judgments:
• Sarah Lynn Ake admit-
ted to violating probation on
Sept. 28. Her probation was
extended to Sept. 28, 2017
and required to perform 20
additional hours of commu-
nity service with 10 hours
being suspended if 20 hours
are completed and submitted
to the court by Jan. 7 and
fined $205 with $100 sus-
pended if all monthly pay-
ments have been made on
time.
• Failure to obey traf-
fic control device: Nichole
Rule, 50, Mt. Vernon, Sept.
15, fined $220.
• No seat belt: Brandon
Cross, 26, Prineville, Sept.
25, fined $95.
• Exceeding speed lim-
it: Joshua Lee Gertsen, 35,
Ridgefield, Wash., 79/65
zone, Sept 21, fined $220.
• Violation of the basic
rule: Calvin T. Piquet, 72,
Winnemucca Nev., 77/55
zone, Sept. 13, fined $260.
• Violation of the speed
limit: Candace Nichole Bo-
ban, 28, Bend, Sept. 18,
47/25 zone, fined $260.
Dispatch
John Day dispatch worked
200 calls during the week of
Sept. 26 - Oct. 2. Along with
the various traffic warnings,
trespassing, injured animals,
noise complaints and juve-
nile complaints, these calls
included:
• John Day Police: Sept.
• 26: A woman called dis-
patch because she had lost
her prescription glasses.
• Sept. 27: Dispatch re-
ceived a report of baby goats
in the highway near Holliday
State Park.
• Sept. 28: Cited a
19-year-old Seneca resident
for possession of marijuana,
two juveniles for possession
of marijuana and a juvenile
for possession of tobacco.
• Sept. 29: Cited a
40-year-old
John
Day
woman for failing to stop
for a school bus. Arrested
a 21-year-old on a Grant
County warrant.
• Oct. 2 JDPD and OSP
responded to multiple re-
ports of shots being fired
just before midnight in Prai-
rie City. A 32-year-old Prai-
rie City woman was cited for
disorderly conduct.
• Grant County Sheriff:
• Sept. 30: Dispatch was
notified of a possible phone
scam. Arrested a 26-year-
old John Day resident on
a warrant for failure to
appear.
• Oct 1: Received a call of
a subject from Canyon City
transporting a female to Blue
Mountain Hospital for a dog
bite.
• Oct. 2: Arrested a
25-year-old man for tele-
phonic harassment.
• John Day Ambulance:
Sept. 27: Performed a Life-
flight transport.
LETTERS
Sheriff has ‘created
a variety of messes’
of messes for Grant County,
and divided the community.
He has tarnished the rep-
utation of Grant County.
Lucky for us, we have a
well-qualiied candidate who
understands the job and the
county and its values, and
is ready to be the sheriff we
deserve and need. I’m enthu-
siastically voting for Todd
McKinley.
Jim Kelly
Kimberly
Then we have those who
seem to think this is just an
easy place to dump their
household garbage. Any-
thing goes, from spoiled
food, dirty diapers, empty
food cans, and yes, even TV
sets.
It shows me just how
cheap and insensitive peo-
ple can be. Who do you
think has to pay to haul
this garbage off? The par-
ents do, because they are
about their kids! Please,
from now on, show a little
pride in yourself and for
a change help some kids
who are working hard to
achieve their goal. It could
possibly make a better per-
son of yourself. Instead of
thinking how smart and
cheap you are and bragging
how you pulled a fast one,
does the word loser come to
mind? It should!
Jan Lowry
Mt. Vernon
An open letter to
the ‘Losers’
To the Editor:
This is an open letter to
those who think they are be-
ing smart, funny and cheap.
What I’m talking about are
the can trailers for the stu-
dents who are working hard
to earn funds for their edu-
cational trip to Philadelphia
and Washington, D.C.
Thanks to the caring
and generosity of the many
people and parents who are
behind the kids 100 percent
they are surely and slow-
ly making their trip money.
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savage thieves.
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To the Editor:
The trial of USA v. Ammon
Bundy et. al. is progressing
much faster than Judge Anna
Brown irst estimated.
The prosecution has in-
ished making their case, and
the defendants are now testi-
fying to make their case. Jeff
Banta, one of the last four de-
fendants to leave the refuge,
testiied last Thursday. His de-
scription of the last night and
morning at the refuge was riv-
eting, even with the constant
objections of the prosecution,
many of which were sustained
by the judge.
Judge Anna Brown has in-
sisted that testimony involv-
ing the conduct of the FBI,
the Hammonds’ court case,
property rights, the U.S Con-
stitution, title of the refuge
and adverse possession not be
brought into the present case.
With those restrictions, it
has been very dificult for the
defense to make their case. It
also is making it hard for the
judge to make it seem that she
is allowing “the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.”
Ammon Bundy is scheduled
for as early as Monday, Oct. 3,
with many of the other defen-
dants to follow within a week or
two.
Judge Anna Brown is sug-
gesting that the trial will proba-
bly be inished and the jury will
be ready to go into their deliber-
ations by Oct. 12.
The Bundy supporters meet
daily in Chapman Park, starting
at about 7:30 a.m., just across
the street from the Hatield Fed-
eral District Court in downtown
Portland.
Some prefer to hold signs in
support of the defendants on the
street, but many of the support-
ers are now watching the trial
in the observation room on the
13th loor of the courthouse.
The lunch hour inds many
of the supporters and defen-
dants across the street in Chap-
man Park for their lunch break.
Terry Noonkester
Myrtle Creek
Daniel Kehr, Peterson’s
neighbor; and Troy Cox,
whose family owns property
near Peterson’s.
The charges stem from
Peterson’s acquisition of
resources — money and
equipment — for ire pro-
tection in Monument and his
subsequent refusal to turn
over the resources to the
Monument Rural Fire Dis-
trict, which was formed by
voters in November of 2012.
Wendel said in his clos-
ing argument at the trial the
irst-degree theft charge was
for submitting a fraudulent
invoices in excess of $1,000
with a grant application to
the Oregon Department of
Forestry on or about Feb.
15, 2013. Wendel said Pe-
terson used white out to
submit the same invoice on
different grant applications
in 2011 and 2012.
The irst-degree aggravat-
ed theft and possession of a
stolen vehicle charges were
for withholding ire vehicles
and equipment in excess of
$10,000 from the Monument
Rural Fire District on or
about Feb. 21, 2013.
After an investigation
by the Oregon State Police
and the Oregon Department
of Justice began in May
2013, police served a search
warrant in October 2013 at
property in the Monument
area and seized ire vehicles
and evidence for the case.
The indictment count
for possession of a sto-
len vehicle lists “a 1970
Ford, a 1974 Freightliner,
a 1983 Ford L9M, a 1993
Ford F350, a second 1993
Ford F350, a 1965 Western
States, a 1966 Ford 900, a
1974 Western States, a 1986
Ford Econoline, and a 1988
International.”
For about a decade, Pe-
terson was a vocal advo-
cate for establishing a rural
ire protection district in the
Monument area. He was
chief of Monument’s city
department at one time and
also acted as chief of the ru-
ral district that was yet to be
formalized.
After the rural district
was formed by voters in
November 2012, the newly
installed board and Peterson
differed on its management
and operation. Noting chal-
lenges with meeting pro-
cedures, operations, equip-
ment and leadership, all of
the board members resigned
in December 2012.
The board was re-estab-
lished in January 2013 when
the Grant County Court ap-
pointed new members. The
new chief of the district
asked Peterson to return the
equipment to the district, but
he did not.
PETERSON
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Comedy. Night guard armored car company
organizes a bank heist.
C elebrate the fall with our
annual Harvest Festival, a fun filled
end to our Farmers Market season.
There will be fruits, vegetables and pumpkins galore.
Baked goods, confections, honey, treats and more.
Sewn goods, jewelry, wooden items, etc. There will
be games and crafts for the kids. Great music.
Our main attraction, the cider press, will be
working hard all morning. Just bring your apples.
For more information
Call Dale Rininger @ 831-596-0656
or visit us on Facebook
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The Malheur
refuge protest trial
To the Editor:
I just read that Sher-
iff Palmer pled the Fifth
Amendment 51 times in
his recent court deposition.
Fifty-one times our sher-
iff apparently thought that
answering the question be-
ing asked under oath might
lead to him being charged
or possibly convicted of a
crime.
It’s his constitutional
right to not answer those
questions, of course. But
this is not some shady crim-
inal trying to hide the truth
— this is our Grant County
sheriff!
Most of us voters in
Grant County have voted
one or more times in the
past for Sheriff Palmer. But
Sheriff Palmer has clearly
changed.
He now seems to care a
lot more about pushing his
political views than he does
about the duties of being
a good sheriff who serves
all of us equally and fairly.
And meanwhile he has suc-
cessfully created a variety
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Eagle file photo
Canyon City Courthouse.
The doctor sp eaks Spanish - El doctor habla Espanol
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