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Two men arrested in John Day drug bust Thursday
More than 100 grams suspected methamphetamine recovered
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
Two men were arrested on multiple
drug charges in John Day Thursday.
Ty J. Round, 41, of John Day is
charged with three counts of metham-
phetamine manufacture, three counts
of methamphetamine delivery, three
counts of methamphetamine posses-
sion and three counts of felon in pos-
session of a firearm, according to infor-
mation filed in circuit
court Friday by Grant
County District Attor-
ney Jim Carpenter.
Joseph
Radi-
novich, 42, of John
Day is charged with
Ty J.
methamphetamine
Round
delivery,
metham-
phetamine
posses-
sion, frequenting a place where con-
trolled substances are used and two
Contributed photo
John Day Police
Department
counts of criminal
conspiracy, according
to court documents.
“The local drug
task force has produc-
tively worked long
hard hours to inves-
Joseph V.
tigate and bring Ty
Radinovich
Round and Joseph
Radinovich to justice,” Carpenter said.
Guns, drugs and
money were seized
following the arrest
of Joseph
Radinovich, 42, of
John Day and Ty
Round, 41, of John
Day on July 23.
See Drugs, Page A14
“WE’VE INVESTED TWO YEARS AND $70,000 IN THIS PROPOSAL, AND WE’RE NOT
GOING BACK TO REWRITE IT. IF SOMEBODY ELSE WANTS TO TAKE THE LEAD,
WE WILL GLADLY GO TO THEIR MEETINGS AND SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS.”
Nick Green, John Day city manager
Contributed photo/Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office
Rancher David Hunt found a cow dead and
mutilated Thursday, with her tongue, geni-
tals and reproductive organs cut out — and
she was placed in an upright position.
POOL PLAN SINKS
Investigators
bewildered by
death, mutilation
of cow near Fossil
Deputy: ‘There was
definitely foul play involved
in this animal’s death’
By Sierra Dawn McClain
EO Media Group
Authorities are investigating the death
and mutilation of yet another cow — this
time, on rangeland near Fossil.
And the culprit may have left a clue: a
boot print.
The black Angus cow, a breeding ani-
mal worth about $1,000, was found Thurs-
day dead and mutilated — tongue, genitals
and reproductive organs cut out. Her carcass
was found upright, front legs tucked under-
neath, a position investigators say they hav-
en’t seen before.
The cause of death is unknown, and
authorities told EO Media Group the case is
ongoing.
“She died in a position she couldn’t have
gotten into by herself. I don’t have any kind
of logical explanation for it,” said David
Hunt, owner of Hunt Ranch and a part-
ner-producer for Painted Hills Natural Beef
Inc.
“There was definitely foul play involved
in this animal’s death,” said Deputy Jere-
miah Holmes of the Wheeler County Sher-
iff’s Office.
This isn’t the first time Hunt has lost
an animal to mysterious mutilation. Last
December, he found a dead bull in the snow
with its nose, lips, ears, tongue, tail and gen-
itals removed and blood drained. Deputy
Holmes said he worked on that case, too,
with no leads.
Hunt isn’t the only rancher to lose an
See Mutilation, Page A14
Eagle file photo
This was planned to be the last season for Gleason Pool in John Day, but COVID-19 prevented it from opening. After Mt. Vernon and Canyon
City chose not to support a proposal for a bond and a taxing district to fund a replacement pool, John Day City Manager Nick Green said the
city will no longer pursue the proposal.
City no longer moving
forward on aquatics center
With Mt. Vernon and
Canyon City opting
out of the taxing
district, proposal no
longer feasible
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
Plans for a new pool in Grant
County appear to have dried up.
The city of John Day no lon-
ger plans to move forward with
a proposal to ask voter approval
for a bond for construction
and a taxing district for opera-
tions costs for a replacement for
Gleason Pool after the Canyon
City City Council voted against
a resolution supporting the tax-
ing district June 21, City Man-
ager Nick Green said.
Canyon City voted 4-1
against the resolution, joining
Mt. Vernon, which had already
voted against the proposal.
Without the cities’ support, they
could not be included in the tax-
ing district, which was planned
to cover John Day, Canyon City,
Mt. Vernon, Prairie City, Seneca
and their rural fire districts, ren-
dering the project infeasible.
“This ends discussions on
this,” Green said. “There’s no
further refinement that’s going
to happen on our part. We’re not
Eagle file photo
A crowd of swim team fans cheer from the stands at the 2019 John Day Swim Meet at Gleason Pool, likely
for the last time.
going to try to restructure the
district to have it be just John
Day paying for a pool in Grant
County.”
Gleason Pool planned to
close at the end of this season
but never opened because of
COVID-19.
Green said the city will con-
tinue with its plan to sell the
pool property to the state to
create a new Kam Wah Chung
interpretive center.
Green said it is time for Grant
County residents who want a
public swimming pool to make
their voices heard with their
elected officials who declined to
give them an opportunity to vote
on the proposal.
After the vote, Canyon City
Mayor Steve Fischer said, even
with the decision, he hopes there
can be a regrouping in the future
to further discuss possibilities of
a pool in the county — princi-
pally, the possibility of repairing
Gleason Pool.
Green was disappointed
the jurisdictions that voted no
to the plan lacked an alterna-
tive or counter proposal. While
Fischer and representatives
from the Grant County Farm
See Pool, Page A14