WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016
Volunteer recognized at national level
Hermiston Herald
Hermiston local Eric
Reise was recently recog-
nized for raising $100,000
for worldwide disaster
survivors.
Reise has been volun-
teering with ShelterBox
— a nonprofi t that pro-
vides humanitarian relief
internationally — since
2011.
ShelterBox provides
emergency tented shelter
and other supplies like
stoves, blankets and wa-
ter fi lters to help fami-
lies following a disaster.
The nonprofi t has almost
400 volunteer fundrais-
ers, and Reise is one of
13 who have reached the
$100,000 milestone.
ShelterBox is current-
ly working in response to
fl ooding in Paraguay and
Sri Lanka, an earthquake
in Ecuador, and confl ict
in Niger and Cameroon,
as well as working to help
Syrian refugees.
Reise is also a member
of the Hermiston Rotary
Club.
Hermiston police arrest
transient on rape charge
By PHIL WRIGHT
Staff Writer
Hermiston police ar-
rested a local transient for
fi rst-degree rape.
Hermiston Police Chief
Jason Edmiston in a writ-
ten statement said Reynar-
do Mendoza Barrera, 35,
committed an “incredibly
heinous act.”
Hermiston
offi cers
on Aug. 2 around 10:35
a.m. responded to a pos-
sible domestic assault in
progress at an apartment
complex on the 200 block
of Southeast Third Street,
Edmiston reported, and
police there detained Bar-
rera.
“Despite having been
previously
trespassed
from the property, Bar-
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rera had illegally gained
access to the apartment of
a female known to him,”
Edmiston said.
Offi cers took Barrera
to the Hermiston Police
Department, where detec-
tives with the department
and Oregon State Police
questioned him. Edmiston
reported that led to Barre-
ra’s arrest for the rape and
fi rst-degree trespassing.
He also stated the in-
vestigation continues, so
other charges could be
coming. And Hermiston
police requested assis-
tance from the local Do-
mestic Violence Services
Inc., and the U.S. Depart-
ment of Homeland Secu-
rity Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement.
Deputy arrests suspected burglar
Hermiston Herald
A Hermiston man said he
felt guilty after committing a
burglary in Adams, accord-
ing to the Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Offi ce.
The suspect, Julio Ce-
sar Guardado-Garcia, 29,
Hermiston, is in the Umatil-
la County Jail in Pendleton,
due to the swift work of a
sheriff’s deputy and Pendle-
ton police.
An Adams resident on
Thursday reported a bur-
glary at his neighbor’s home,
56812 Bingham Road, ac-
cording to a written state-
ment from the sheriff’s
offi ce. Deputy John Reitz
responded to investigate and
spotted a silver van parked at
the far west end of the prop-
erty.
Reitz took down the li-
cense plate number from the
van and observed the driver,
a female, before following
the neighbor to the proper-
ty. There, the deputy noticed
signs of a fresh break-in at a
shop.
Reitz did not fi nd sus-
pects at the site, according
to the sheriff’s statement, but
he saw a foot trail through
the grass from the broken
shop door where the van had
been, along with a pair of
black gloves on the road. Re-
itz talked to neighbors who
claimed they saw a Hispanic
man with an injured eye at
the victim’s property on two
occasions during the previ-
ous the two days.
Reitz broadcast an “at-
tempt to locate” for the van
and driver. Offi cers from
the Pendleton Police De-
partment found the vehicle
at a residence in Pendleton
and identifi ed the driver as a
17-year-old female. She was
in the company of Guarda-
do-Garcia.
Reitz talked to Guarda-
do-Garcia, and he matched
the witness descriptions,
according to the sheriff’s of-
fi ce, and his shoes matched
the footprints at the crime
scene. Guardado-Garcia also
admitted to being on the vic-
tim’s property but claimed
he did not take anything.
He said he went there with
a second male suspect who
said the property belonged
to him.
“After further question-
ing,” the sheriff’s offi ce re-
ported, “Guardado-Garcia
admitted that he broke in to
the shop and claimed he put
back everything he took be-
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cause he felt guilty.”
The sheriff’s offi ce also
reported Reitz recognized the
17-year-old girl as the driver
he saw at the scene, and she
admitted she was driving the
van. She also admitted she
transported property from
the victim’s residence and
gave consent to search her
room. The offi cers recovered
several items of the victim’s
property, including rifl es,
shotguns and hunting gear.