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Car thieves pick wrong canyon for escape HEPPNER G T 50¢ azette imes VOL. 136 NO. 50 8 Pages Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon TREO hunting group captures two burglary suspects; shot fired at Rhea Creek resident The Treo “A” Team out of Yakima, Washington. By David Sykes A pair of burglary sus- pects on the run in a sto- len Jeep picked the wrong canyon for escape Sun- day, when they ran into a group of bird hunters on the TREO pheasant hunting ranch. The hunters captured them at gun point and held them there until police ar- rived. Daniel Faustino Arce, 28, and Desireea Delane Devin, 23, were lodged in jail with a reported $1,170,000 total bail. Ear- lier that day they had alleg- edly stolen a Jeep Cherokee The hunters surround the thieves who had their hands up in the air. on Upper Rhea Creek, and then after a high speed chase by a neighbor crashed it on the TREO hunting pre- serve property past Ruggs off the Heppner-Condon Highway. The pair had been run- ning from Roger Britt, who tailed them from Upper Rhea Creek where they Police arrive at the scene had stolen the Jeep from Britt’s neighbor. Britt said vehicle had the garage door me.” Britt said he was close Lane and tried to set fire opener, and they closed the enough he could see the gun to the Jeep on property be- it was early Sunday door as they drove out the window, but he was longing to TREO Ranches. afternoon and he had by,” he said. Then not hit by the round. “The guy who works for been driving past his he knew things Britt said he then pulled me, Pablo Cisneros, came neighbor’s house and were not right. over so the passenger running up and said there saw that the garage Britt said he couldn’t get a clear sec- was a Jeep Cherokee driv- door was open, and j u m p e d i n h i s ond shot at him, and again ing all over the place,” the vehicle was gone. pickup and fol- started following them but TREO owner Phil Carlson “I first knew some- lowed close behind this time at a great distance. said. Carlson was out on thing wasn’t right Daniel at a high rate of He said he followed the a bird hunt with a group when the garage was Faustino Arce speed down Upper vehicle down to Ruggs and from Yakima. Carlson said open, the vehicle Rhea Creek. He then onto the Heppner-Con- some chukars had just come gone and knowing said at one point don Highway. “I wanted to up when the hunters saw a the neighbor was not the white car fol- know which way they went girl hiding in the sage brush at home,” Britt said. lowing the Jeep at Ruggs,” he explained. about 100 yards away, and He said he was at the pulled over, but After that Britt turned back then the guy stood up. garage when the Jeep Britt stayed right and stopped at Morrow Carlson said they could came driving down with the Jeep. He County Sheriff’s Deputy, see a fire had been started the road with another said that was when Terry Harper’s, house and in the canyon and they vehicle close behind. Desireea the passenger of notified him so they could grabbed some water jugs to He said when the Jeep Delane Devin the Jeep pulled a call 911. go put it out. He said a gas drove by he could gun out and fired Meanwhile the thieves can was on fire where the see it was not his neighbor off a round in his direction. broke into a shed on Valby thieves had tried to torch behind the wheel, and then “I could see him fumbling Road and stole gas cans. the Jeep. “We started put- something else odd hap- around in there and then From there, they ended up ting two and two together pened. “The garage door he hangs out and fires at stuck in a ditch on Carlson at that time,” Carlson said. closed. The people in the Then hunters looked at each other, and since they were hunting with shot- guns, said “let’s go get the AR15s.” Carlson said they went to their pickup and got out AR15 rifles, pis- tols and even some knives. The Yakima hunters sur- rounded the suspects with guns drawn, while Carlson went up to get phone ser- vice and call 911. “Those Yakima hunters are some- thing else,” Carlson said about the group, which after this event he called the “A” team. They come to hunt every year on the ranch, Carlson said. He said one of them said, “This is the real thing.” “It was a perfect storm,” Carlson said of the capture. “It happened that the can- yon the car thieves went up was where we were hunt- ing. And they (the hunters) had some firepower. They weren’t going anywhere,” he said of the suspects. From there the Oregon State Police and Morrow County Sheriff’s Depart- ment arrived and took the suspects into custody. They were lodged in the Umatilla County Jail with the fol- lowing charges filed: two counts of burglary I, one count of burglary II, two counts of criminal tres- pass, one count of theft over $1,000, one count of unauthorized use of vehicle (felony), one count of ar- son, one count of criminal mischief II (vandalism) and one count of attempted murder (felony). Bail was set for Arce at $685,000 and for Devin at $485,000. Court records show Arce began serving two years of probation in August 2016 in Jefferson County for methamphetamine pos- session, which he violated this past August. Devin faced meth and hydroco- done possession, unlawful possession of a gun and driving under the influence of intoxicants in 2014 in Jefferson County. She took a deal and pleaded guilty to the meth possession and entered drug court and a DUII diversion program. Devin completed diversion in November 2015 and the court dismissed the DUII case against her. The two apparently live together in Madras. Arce was also involved and sentenced for crimi- nal activity on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. In 2012, he pleaded guilty to a felon in possession of a firearm in connection to a drive by shooting and was sentenced to 37 months in prison. Phil’s brother, Clint Carlson posted pictures on his Facebook page and commented, “One take away from this event: This is why we have the second amendment. 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