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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 19,2011 Electric co-op announces photo contest Sheriff’s Report The Morrow County Sheriff's Office reports handling the fol lowing business: C olum bia Basin First-, second- and June 10 (cont.): Electric Co-Op is accepting third-place prizes will be -MCSO received report entries for its annual pho awarded. First place will from a subject on 1-84 who tography contest. The coop receive $50, with $35 for said he was following a erative is looking for entries second place and $15 for semi which kicked up grav from which to select quality third. prints to be enlarged and put This year, an addi el and broke his windshield. on permanent display. tional black and white class He said he asked the driver Entries will be ac has been added, with the for her license number and cepted at both the Condon theme, “This is Our Service she refused. -MCSO received and Heppner offices from Territory!” An extra $50 request from the Depart now through Thursday, prize will be awarded to the ment of Human Services to October 27. Submissions winner of this category. assist a worker in making a will close at 5 p.m. on the A panel appointed home visit in Irrigon. 27th. Entries must be pho by C.B.E.C. will perform -BPD received re tographs but may be either independent jud g in g o f port from the manager at standard or digital, color entries. Judges’ decisions the Boardman Market that or black-and-white. They will be final. a subject came into the must be taken within the Entrants must agree store and started harassing C.B.E.C. service territory, to allow Columbia Basin with some indication or Electric Co-Op to enlarge, the employees. The subject reference to electricity or frame and perm anently had been trespassed from electrical infrastructure. display w inning entries the store previously. -BPD cited Hector This required element may at C.B.E.C.’s discretion, Manuel Arceo Andrade, be very minor, however. without further compensa 36, for driving uninsured There will be two tion. Photo credit will be and failure to obey a traffic entry classes: entries o f given. All entrants must control device. The vehicle people or anim als and be members of Columbia was impounded. entries o f landscapes or Basin Electric Cooperative, -BPD Officer ad general interest. The same Inc. No entrant may submit vised he was out taking a photo may be entered in more than four entries in runaway report. both classes, but a copy any one class. -B PD was c o n is required for each class. Anyone w anting tacted by a construction Eight-by-ten-inch photos additional information or company who said they had are preferred, but smaller details may call Tom Wolff left a hydrant energized and entries are allowed. at 676-9146. it needed to be turned off. A BPD Office turned the hydrant off. -MCSO cited Ed mond Adeeb Haddad, 76, for passing in a no-passing On O cto b er 17, to prevent any spread and zone. -MCSO received fire season was officially the bums are monitored at report from an Irrigon terminated for forestlands all times.” P erm its are r e woman that a cat had been protected by the Central Or egon District of the Oregon quired for burn barrels, captured in a trap and the Departm ent o f Forestry open burning, and burning cat needed to be picked (O D F), w hich includes of slash from either logging up. -MCSO received Morrow County. This in or thinning. You can ac cludes ODF-protected pri quire these from your local report from an Irrigon sub vate, state, county, munici Oregon Department of For ject who said her brother pal, and tribal lands. Land- estry office. Determining if was having trouble walk owners are still asked to be it is a “good” day to bum is ing and talking and was caqtjoius sincç fall weather, an important consideration very tired, possibly alcohol induced. The juvenile was with intermittent rain show as well. ers, does not eliminate fire To check weather cited for MIP-alcohol, -MCSO received danger. conditions before burning “Many landowners in the John Day Unit, call report from an Irrigon have begun their fall and 541-575-1139. To report a woman that she has been winter bum planning. They fire, call John Day Inter finding dead birds on her need to notify ODF so that agency Dispatch Center at property and that day, two the proper documentation 541-575-1321 or Bums In dogs showed up on the can be submitted,” stated teragency Communication property, one a reddish and Angie Johnson, John Day Center at 541-573-1000. white pit bull and the other Unit Forester for Oregon For further information, black and white, possibly a Department o f Forestry. contact your local ODF pit bull mix. She said it was unknown if they were the “Also, it is important ad office. ones that had been killing equate resources are present the birds. -MCSO received report from the Department of Human Services that they were attempting to locate a The Inland North phony No. 9 “From the juvenile foster child in Hep west Orchestra will present New World.” pner whose mother went to The concert is free, jail the previous day. DHS its opening concert of the season Saturday, October but donations will be ac located the juvenile with the 29 at 7 p.m. at the Hermis- cepted at the door. assistance of MCSO. For additional in ton Christian Center, 1825 -MCSO received formation, call 541-289- report of a small passenger W Highland Ave. The orchestra will 4696 or inwm@machme- care that had gone off the perform D vorak’s Sym- dia.net. road several times on 1-84. The vehicle had taken an M e p p n e r F a m ilq Foods n o w exit. -MCSO cited Jake Lee Baier, 24, for violation has g if t c e rtific a te c a r d s .. . of the basic rule, 77 mph in a 55 mph zone. M ow ijou can come in and load -M C SO w arned a subject in Heppner for having no license plate a n ij am ount onto ijo u r new light and expired tags. The subject denied consent for a q ift card and give it as a q ift o r search of the vehicle. -MCSO received have q o u r student come in and a noise com plaint from a Boardman subject who purchase groceries fo r q o u ! ! said that the neighbor’s music was so loud it was vibrating the walls o f her M a k e q o u r life easier w ith o u r home. She called back and said the music had stopped new qrocerq q ift cards. and there was no need to respond. June 13: Morrow County S heriff’s Office received report from a Hep pner woman that her soon- to-be ex-husband has been calling her and making threats. -MCSO received report that an elderly female came across the median on 1-84 into an opposing lane of traffic and appeared very confused. The reporter was Fire season ends on private lands Inland Northwest Orchestra in concert I going to wait for Oregon State Police to arrive before he departed. -MCSO received a call from a woman in lone concerning live traps for feral cats. -MCSO received report from a H eppner woman that a .45 semi-au tomatic handgun was stolen from her vehicle at the gro cery store in Heppner. The vehicle was unlocked. -MCSO received a call from a subject in the Heppner area to report that a female had been calling him regarding property her dad owned in Hardman, but she was no longer able to go on it. The caller did not want MCSO to respond or make contact, but instead just note the incident. -MCSO received report from a man on Wil son Road in Boardman that he was in a vehicle with a man who went crazy and they got into an alterca tion. He said he left the vehicle and all parties left the scene. Boardman Police D epartm ent and MCSO responded. -MCSO received report from a subject in Irrigon who advised he had a bunch of stolen prop erty in a truck on Oregon Ave. and then hung up. MCSO made contact with the driver o f the vehicle and it was confirmed that the subjects worked for a company in Idaho and was selling equipment. -MCSO received rep o rt from a H eppner woman that two men came to her ranch to pick up a bulldozer that they bought from another man, how ever the woman said that the man who sold them the bulldozer did not own it. They left without the bull dozer, but were very upset. She reported that she was afraid that they would come back and take it anyway. ' -MCSO received report o f a rattlesnake by the tennis courts in Hep pner. -MCSO received report from an Irrigon sub ject that he had been re ceiving threatening phone calls and wanted to talk to a deputy about it. A deputy responded and advised sub jects o f their options. -MCSO received report from an Irrigon man that a dog in his neighbor hood has been barking for over an hour. A deputy ad vised that he would have the day shift make contact and get the owner’s information so that a citation could be issued. June 14: Board- man Police D epartm ent cited So Da, 30, for No operator’s license. The sub ject was warned for failure to obey a traffic control device and the vehicle was impounded. -BPD received re port of suspicious circum stances with four people getting in and out of a van in Boardman. -BPD received re port o f a shoplifter at the pharmacy in Boardman. -BPD received re port o f juveniles riding bikes without helmets. Five helmets were given out. -B P D , M o rrow County S heriff’s O ffice received report of a vehicle hitting a tree. It was to be handled civily. -MCSO received request for extra patrol at Morgan from a subject who was leaving equip ment there until he could move it. -MCSO received report from a male subject in Irrigon who said his daughter left her mother’s place to stay with a friend because the daughter and the mother weren’t getting along. When the mother sent her boyfriend to pick up the girl, the girl called her father screaming. One I subject was cited for fail June 16: -MCSO ure to appear at Hermiston was notified that Hermiston Circuit Court. Police Department arrested -MCSO received Robert Duane Swales, 53, report o f two unenforce on a Morrow County Cir able private party road cuit Court warrant. The sub signs posted on Ely Can ject was lodged at Umatilla yon Road. Sheriff advised County Jail with no bail. deputies were not to enforce -MCSO received a these traffic as they were call concerning a dead deer not legally posted by the in the middle of the road. Advised ODOT, who will county or the state. -MCSO received take care of it. -MCSO received a report o f a large pile o f plastic garbage bags left in call concerning overgrown a yard in Heppner for over weeds causing a fire hazard one month. It was advised near Irrigon. Max Hellberg that they were sacks of cans will be mowing the prop which would be redeemed erty. -MCSO received a soon. -MCSO received report of a motor home that report of neighbor’s dogs had a window broken out. -M CSO was ad barking in Heppner. The owner was advised that if he vised that Hermiston PD doesn’t keep the dogs quiet arrested Jorge Torres Rey noso, 26, on an Irrigon he will be cited. -MCSO received Justice Court warrant for report of 12-15 kids swim failure to pay fine/driving ming in the Irrigon Marina while suspended. The sub near the boat launch where ject was lodged at Umatilla signs are posted “No Swim County Jail. ming.” The juveniles were -Oregon State Pa warned to stay off the dock trol relayed a report o f a or they would be arrested possible DUII driver west for trespass. bound on Highway 730 -MCSO received from milepost 179, a white report o f a motor home Ford Taurus with Washing billowing smoke on 1-84, ton plates. The vehicle was Boardman. not maintaining its lane. -MCSO received MCSO issued a citation to report that a subject brought Gustavo Armando Cova- a dog into Pet Rescue tht rrubias Gonzalez, 23, for she found tied to a fence no operator’s license and on Paterson Ferry Rd. in driving uninsured. Irrigon. -MCSO received a -MCSO received report of a young lady lean rep o rt from an Irrigon ing against a retaining wall woman that someone was on Main Street in Heppner. knocking on the back win She said some odd things to dows o f her house. She the caller, followed him to called back and reported his residence and then went that it was just a tarp. to her residence next door. -MCSO received A deputy drove through the report of a suspicious per area, but there was nobody son in Irrigon. The reporter around. June 17: -BPD ar said the man was looking at her, so she locked every rested Daniel Bernard Lof- thing up. A deputy respond tus, 48, for DUII. ed, but was unable to locate -BPD received a call that someone had found anyone in the area. -M C SO D eputy a really big turtle on the reported he was doing a, ,*oaduAnd that they were welfare check on a subject worried it was going to get walking down Washington run over. It was the biggest in Irrigon. The subject was turtle they had ever seen, fine and had no warrants, and they would like it taken just walking home to Herm to pet rescue. The officer iston. advised that they would -MCSO received keep it for the night and report from a subject in then release it the follow Hardman that his building ing day. -MCSO issued a had been broken into and some stereo stuff taken. warning for driving while -MCSO received tired. -MCSO issued a ci three reports of an injured deer that was still alive on tation to Elizabeth Lovema 1-82. Oregon State Police Corrales, 22, for violating and Umatilla County Sher the speed limit by driving 84 mph in a 65 mph zone. iff’s Office were advised. -MCSO received a -MCSO received call for tall grass/weeds in a call that someone in a Heppner. The owners were white mini blazer almost given two weeks to cut the left the gas station in Hep grass and the pasture or they pner with the hose attached. When the station attendant would be cited. June 15: -MCSO advised him that she needed was advised that Umatilla to hang up the hose, he got County Sheriff’s Office ar snippy with her and left rested a male subject on an with squealing tires that Irrigon Justice Court war left marks. -MCSO received rant for failure to appear. The subject was lodged at a call from someone who advised they were being Umatilla County Jail. -MCSO received tailgated and that the other a complaint that some of vehicle was trying to run the trees in lone City Park them off the road. -MCSO received had been stripped of their a call from a female who bark. -MCSO issued a said she had a raccoon at citation to Alberto Nieto her house. The government Salgado, 27, for violating tracker was advised to con the basic rule by driving 80 tact her. -MCSO responded in a 55 and failure to drive to an audible fire alarm. within lane. The subject also received a warning The resident had caught for failure to carry proof of his pants on fire with his cigarette and advised that insurance. -MCSO received there was no fire. a noise complaint of loud -M CSO was ad music somewhere in the vised that Oregon State caller's neighborhood in Police arrested Christina Irrigon. The music was so Marie Berger, 33, on an Ir loud he couldn’t hear his rigon Justice Court warrant TV. Deputy made contact for failure to appear/pa- with a truck that was play role violation. Subject was ing its radio loudly; the lodged at Jefferson County driver turned the music Jail waiting for transport. down. June 18: -BPD is -BPD issued a ci sued a citation to Jessie tation to Gladis Navarro Allan Aughinbaugh, 34, Hernandez, 19, for unlaw for failure to carry proper ful window tinting. insurance. The subject was -B PD issu e d a also warned for illegal win parking citation at 512 Ju dow tinting and no break light tint. niper Drive in Boardman.