Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 12, 2000 - FIVE
Sheriff's Report
The Morrow County Sheriffs
Office (MCSO) reports handling
the following business:
-received report of a digital
cameral
reported
stolen,
recovered.
-received report of a black lab
mix, one year old, lost in Ely
Canyon area.
-OSP received report of an atlas
Van Lines tractor trailer
weaving.
-received report of a stolen van
in Irrigon.
-Boardman Ambulance
received report of a one-vehicle
accident on Hwy. 730 at
Patterson Ferry Road.
Two
patients where transported to
Good Shepherd Hospital.
-received request for a deputy
to contact a man by phone for
advice.
-received report of two driving
complaints on 1-84, a blue Ford
pickup and a turquoise T-Bird.
-received report from a woman
that someone is in a trailer that
should be unoccupied.
-received report of a silver
Monte Carlo leaving Lexington
on Hwy. 207 northbound at a
high rate of speed. Officer was
unable to locate anyone.
-BPD received report from a
Boardman that 12-13 year old
girls are harassing his daughter
-MCSO, Heppner Police
Department received a 911 call
with a female reporting that a
male was trying to break down
her door to kill her in Hardman.
-received report of 30 head of
cow out on Ripple and Olson
Roads in Boardman, officer was
unable to locate anything.
-received request from Pioneer
Memorial Hospital to contact
Morrow County Behavioral
Health and have them respond to
the hospital.
M arch 8: received report of
cows out on Bombing Range
Road. Eighty to 100 cows were
strung from Homestead Road to
the potato shed.
-received report that a truck hit
a cow. They were unable to
locate the cow.
-received report of a bomb
threat at Umatilla Army Depot at
7:03 a.m.
Personnel were
dismissed, all gates locked and
no one was allowed in or out.
-received report of cattle out on
Bombing Range Rd.
-received another report of 12-
15 cattle out.
-received report of a dead cow
on Bombing Range Rd.
-Boardman Ambulance, Medic
3, Medic 2 received request for
an ambulance for a 72 year old
male. He was transported to
Good Shepherd Hospital.
-received report of a two
vehicle accident blocking with no
injuries near Oregon Hay.
-received report from a
Boardman man that he was
receiving threatening phone
calls. They started the previous
night and three occurred that day.
-MCSO deputy cited a 16-year
old girl for harassment.
-received report of three vehicles
that tried to run another vehicle
off the road. No one was in
position to respond.
-received report of a red Ford
pickup outside a residence.
-received report of two dogs in
a pasture in Irrigon and caller
reported that she shot at them.
-received report of a hazard
with a brown pickup on the
shoulder over the fog line in
Boardman.
-Boardman Police Department,
MCSO received report of a
domestic dispute at a Boardman
residence.
One subject was
charged with Assault TV
Domestic-felony and lodged at
Umatilla County Jail.
-OSP received report of a
disabled vehicle on 1-84 with a
female on the hood of a dark
grey sedan.
-OSP received report of a
tractor-trailer traveling 8-10
miles per hour in the middle of
the road.
-received report of a flashlight
in the field across from the
caller's residence with. Caller
heard voices and yelling. It was
the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife with workers in the
field hunting pheasant around
7:19 p.m.
-received report of a possible
DUII with a vehicle headed
toward Lexington from Heppner
on Hwy. 74. The vehicle ran
over a curb in Heppner and was
all over the road. The vehicle
was located and driver said
he/she was headed to pick up son
who broke down. The son was
to drive the vehicle back to
Heppner and officer was to take
the driver over to the DMV for
evaluation.
-received report from a
Boardman woman that when she
went outside her residence she
smelled a strong odor o f cat
litter and onions and believes
someone in the area is
manufacturing drugs because the
smell is so strong it burned her
nose.
It was from farmers
fertilizing.
-received a call concerning
Burglary I and Theft II and also
telephone harassment.
-received report of a problem
with a neighbor's dog in Irrigon.
M arch 9: received request for
a welfare check from a woman
whose daughter, en route from
California, is overdue. She was
entered as a missing person.
•received report of the garage
door open at the senior bus shed
and no one is around.
-7:12 a.m. received report of a
bomb threat at the Umatilla
Army Depot. The employees
were dismissed.
-received report of cow out at
Homestead Rd.
-MCSO received request
for deputy at A.C. Houghton
Elementary in Irrigon.
-OSP arrested Thomas
John Yonker, 42, Umatilla, on a
Morrow County warrant for
Failure To Appear on a citation.
He was cited and released.
-MCSO received report
from US West of an open phone
line at a Heppner residence. Dogs
were barking, but no one was on
the line. Everything was ok.
-MCSO received report
of a small child riding his bike in
the street on Church St. in
Heppner.
-City of Heppner, HPD,
Heppner Ambulance, HFD
received report of a vehicle that
went over the hill at Morgan St.
in front of the High School.
Christopher Bridgmon, 18, was
transported to PMH with injuries.
The vehicle was towed.
-MCSO received report
of two traffic complaints in
Irrigon. Traffic was speeding on
Main and unsupervised children
were crossing the street from the
school. Caller said she spoke to
the school.
-MCSO received report
of six to nine cows out on
Bombing Range.
-MCSO received request
for deputy from an Irrigon
woman who said she is receiving
threatening calls from two
Hermiston women.
-BPD received report of
a stereo stolen out of a 1995 Ford
Ranger parked in a driveway in
Boardman.
-BPD, MCSO received
report from a woman who said
,er ex-father-in-law has been
making threats to hurt her, her
husband and their baby since
they have been helping her
mother in-law since they split up.
She was concerned since the
father-in-law was released from
jail that day and her husband was
working graveyard
-MCSO received report
of loud music at an Irrigon
address, a weekly occurrence and
caller had to get up at 5 a.m.
Deputy contacted parties and told
them to turn down the music or
they will be cited.
-M CSO
arrested
Christopher Michael Swope, 21,
Pasco on a Morrow County
Circuit Court Warrant for
Criminal Mischief, I, Initiating
False Report, MIP/Purchasing
Alcohol. He was lodged at
Umatilla County Jail. .Bail was
set at $30,000. He was also
arrested on a Hermiston PD
warrant for DUII with $10,000
bail.
-BPD, MCSO received
report of juvenile drinking at the
Sandpiper Apartments
in
Boardman.
-Boardman Ambulance
received
request
for an
ambulance for a 29-year-old
male having seizures. He was
transported to GHS.
-Heppner Amb, HFD,
EMT, MCSO received report of
a one vehicle accident up Rhea
Creek Rd. Victims walked to a
rest and said there is a possible
second victim in the vehicle.
One was transported to PMH.
Officer was unable to locate
second victim. First subject
refused testing for alcohol and
was cited for DUII and Driving
While Suspended/misdemeanor.
•Wasco Co. Sheriffs
Office arrested Donald Howard
Clark, 39, on an UC warrant for
Failure To Appear/Driving While
Suspended. Bail was set at
$ 6 , 000 .
-lone EMT, Heppner
Ambulance, MCSO received
request for an ambulance for an
83-year-old woman who was
unconscious and was having
trouble breathing. The subject,
who regained consciousness and
was breathing better, was
transported to PMH.
-MCSO assisted with
security
at
A.C.Houghton
Elementary.
-MCSO deputy contacted
a woman regarding a complaint
about her dogs chasing children.
-MCSO
confiscated
magazine pages and disposed of
them. Officer was unable to
locate suspect.
-MCSO received report
of vandalism done to a garage
that was being leased from the
Port of Morrow.
-MCSO received request
to deliver a message to a
Heppner man driving to Portland
what his father was being taken
to the hospital, but then the father
was flown to Portland.
-MCSO received report
of a porch on fire in Heppner.
-MCSO received report
of a 1970 red 4X4 at the refuge
turning cookies and throwing
gravel and making a dog chase
him. Caller was concerned about
the dog.
-MCSO received report
of a cow out on road on the
Lexington side of Baseline.
-MCSO received report
of things missing around a
residence near Heppner and a
truck broken into .
-OSP, MCSO received
report of an out-of-control teen
damaging the house. Juvenile
was taken to juvenile detention.
-MCSO received report
of three-four juveniles yelling
and cussing, perhaps getting
physical in Irrigon.
-MCSO received report
of neighbors partying again in
Irrigon. Music was turned down
upon deputy arrival.
-MCSO received request
for welfare check at a Lexington
address.
-MCSO received report
o f three big equipment seeder
machines that tore up the caller's
mail box he just put in.
-Irrigon Fire Department
received request for assistance
for a nurse who needed help
getting an obese patient up.
-Boardm an
Amb
received report of a 69-year-old
man with previous heart
problems experiencing chest
pains.
-MCSO received report
of two people in another person's
field in Boardman.
-HPD
cited
Elliot
Strouse, 18, Heppner, for
possession of less than loz. of
marijuana.
-HPD received report of
a possible fight in front of Kates.
One male subject was advised he
had enough to drink and returned
to his motel.
-BPD, MCSO received
report from a woman that they
have received more threats from
her ex-father-in law. He had
been driving by threatening to do
harm to the mother-in-law.
-Irrigon Amb, MCSO
received report o f an eight-year-
old girl having a seizure. There
was no transport.
March
12: MCSO
received report of a juvenile not
yet home at 12:21 a.m. in Irrigon.
Juvenile was located and
returned home.
-OSP, MCSO received
report of an abandoned vehicle
being vandalized. Owner was
contacted and will move vehicle.
-OSP, MCSO, ODFW,
U.S. Forest Service received
report of a vehicle possibly in a
restricted area in Irrigon near the
grain bins.
-MCSO received request
for deputy concerning juveniles
up a tree at the Irrigon marina
park.
-MCSO received report
o f a custody dispute between a
woman and her soon-to-be ex-
husband in Boardman.
-BPD, MCSO received
report o f several people in the
driveway at a Boardman
residence,
possibly
an
altercation. It was just some
people visiting.
• Burns
P olice
Department
arrested
John
Kenneth Todd, 30, on an IJC
warrant for FTA/DWS. He was
lodged at Harney Co. Jail with
$6,000 bail.
-MCSO received report
of water leaking from a ceiling at
the St. Pats. Senior Center.
Caller thought the living room
was also flooded.
March
13: MCSO
arrested John Dano Godinez, 41,
on a circuit court warrant for
DWS misdemeanor.
-MCSO received report
from a woman that a dog chased
her son as he walked to school.
-MCSO received a 911
hang-up/abandoned call.
-MCSO received request
for deputy contact concerning a
burglary called in the previous
week.
-MCSO received request
deputy concerning a violation of
a stalking order.
MCSO
received three hang up 911 calls.
Calls were from Columbia
Middle School.
-MCSO received request
for a deputy concerning a
burglary called in the previous
week.
-MCSO received request
for deputy concerning a man
violating a stalking order.
-H eppner
Police
Department received report of
checks stolen. The bank was
already advised.
-Hermiston
Police
Department
arrested
Juan
Manuel Ibarra, 23, on a Heppner
Justice Court warrant for Failure
To Pay Fine/Providing False
Information to a Police Officer.
Subject was given a court date
and released with $363 bail.
-MCSO received report
from a Boardman woman that
her daughter made contact with
her and is no longer missing.
-MCSO received report
of items stolen from an
untouched building near Anson
Wright Park. Jars of change and
a miter saw were taken.
-MCSO, OSP, Hermiston
Ambulance, Fire Department
received report of a one vehicle
rollover with injury on 1-84
westbound with a power pole on
fire.
-MCSO received report
of dogs allowed to run at a home
day care. Caller was concerned
about children.
-B oardm an
Fire
Department received report of
flames and a large cloud of
smoke on 1-84 west of
Boardman. It was an Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife
bum.
-MCSO received request
for Oregon
State
Police
concerning an incident the
previous night. Caller was not
happy with officers' actions.
-Heppner Ambulance,
Heppner Police Department,
Medic 3 received report of an 84-
year-old in and out of
consciousness.
She was
transported to Pioneer Memorial
Hospital.
-MCSO received report
of a 23-year-old and a 19-year-
old out with a 15-year-old
juveniles
-MCSO received request
for a deputy concerning the sale
of a vehicle that was on another
subject's property and subject
would not give car back.
-HPD received request
for an officer concerning
telephone harassment.
M arch
14: MCSO
received report of two juvenile
boys standing on a neighbor's
porch smoking pot in Irrigon.
Officer was unable to locate
anything.
-BPD, MCSO received
report of an alarm at a Boardman
residence. The woman of the
resident was upstairs locked in
her room and reported hearing a
noise before the alarm went off.
The wind had blown the garage
door open.
-MCSO received report
of neighbor dogs chasing cattle
in Irrigon.
-Road Dept, received
report of a pothole on Wilson at
Rippee Rd.
-MCSO received report
of a vehicle speeding in a
construction zone in Irrigon.
-MCSO received report
from an Irrigon man that his
roommate had been missing for
approximately 12 days. His
vehicle and personal items were
at the residence. The subject was
found in Pasco.
-MCSO received request
for a deputy
concerning
identification of a weapon in a
possible burglary.
-MCSO received report
of a gas or water truck 1/4 mile
east and north of the Umatilla
Army Depot. It was possibly
stuck and left out in the sage
brush.
-MCSO received report
of possible trouble at a
Boardman residence.
-MCSO received report
of parties most nights at an
Imgon residence and extra patrol
wanted.
-MCSO received request
for deputy concerning a burglary
the previous week.
-HPD received report
from a Heppner woman that her
son had received a death threat.
-BPD, MCSO received
report from a woman who said
her husband had just left the
house and was followed by two
men who had gotten into an
alteration with him earlier. It
was ok, just a verbal dispute.
-MCSO received request
for officer from a Heppner
woman who said another woman
made a death threat against her.
-HPD received request
for an officer from a woman who
says she wants to press charges
against a Heppner couple
because they were driving by and
flipping her off.
-BPD received a 911 call
from a Boardman subject who
said he dialed the wrong number.
He was calling by Braille.
-MCSO received report
of a house burglary with forced
entry and guns missing.
-MCSO received request
from an Irrigon woman to sign a
complaint on her neighbors.
-HPD received request
for officer at Heppner Chevron to
discuss an earlier incident.
March 15: OSP received
report of a possible scream by the
Irrigation District office in
Irrigon. Caller said it could have
also been a chicken, she wasn't
sure.
-MCSO received report
of cows out on comer of Wilson
and Miller.
-MCSO received report
of another bomb threat at the
UAD. Non-essential employees
were released.
-MCSO received request
for a deputy from a woman
concerning visitation with her
son who lives in Boardman.
-MCSO received request
for a house watch in Irrigon.
-MCSO received report
of a car dolly on Hwy. 74,
possibly a hazard.
-MCSO received request
for a deputy from a woman who
said she was assaulted by a male
subject.
-MCSO
arrested
Matthew Weatherford, 24, for
Assault IV.
-BPD cited Floyd Edwin
Glenn, 59, for aggravated animal
abuse. He was also cited for
unlawful use of a weapon.
-OSP recovered a boat
stolen earlier.
-MCSO received request
from Irrigon Sentry Market to
pick up bad checks.
-MCSO received request
for deputy concerning credit card
fraud.
-MCSO received request
for security check.
-HPD received request
for officer from a woman who
said another subject wouldn't
giver her things back.
-MCSO received-report
of an audible alarm at the
Riverside High School shop. It
was an employee getting
something out of the shop.
-BPD, MCSO received
report of parents arguing in the
Boardman 76 Station parking lot
with juveniles over a possible
stolen bicycle.
-BPD, MCSO, Boardman
Ambulance received request for
an ambulance for a subject
having difficulty breathing. One
was transported to Good
Shepherd Hospital.
-HPD received request
for officer concerning a loose
dog. One person was cited for
dog at large.
MCSO received request
for deputy concerning strange
telephone activity.
Artist holds workshop in Heppner
Dean Handbury puts the finishing touches on a painting completed at
a workshop by artist Betty Crosswhite, sponsored by the Morrow
County Creative Arts and Crafts Club, Saturday. April 8.
Camille Sykes (right) gets some pointers from artist Betty Crosswhite
at a workshop sponsored by the Morrow County Creative Arts and
Crafts Club Saturday. April 8.