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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018
NEWS
Local hunters end up on wrong side of the law
Poachers caught
trespassing while
going after elk
HERMISTON HERALD
Oregon State Police last
week caught more local elk
poachers.
An anonymous caller
Nov. 15 at 2:01 p.m. reported
four alleged trespassers shot
an elk on private land off
the South Fork Walla Walla
River Road near milepost
3 outside Milton-Freewa-
ter, according to state police.
The four took off running
when they caught sight of
the troopers.
While fleeing, they
crossed onto two separate
properties, and the landown-
ers wanted them cited for
trespassing. One member of
the band, a 17-year old boy,
tried to hide himself plus a
gun.
State police reported the
teen came out from his hid-
ing spot, where a trooper
found a Ruger P-95 9-mm
with 10 rounds in the mag-
azine and a holster between
rocks and a fence post. The
teen claimed he borrowed
the gun from an 18-year-old
friend in September.
All of the group are
from
Milton-Freewater.
State police cited Petyon
R. Breeding, 18, Camer-
aon Michael Shannon, 18,
Michael Patrick Shannon,
49, and the 17-year-old for
two counts each of hunting
on another’s land.
State police also gave
Breeding and Cameraon
Shannon citations for offen-
sive littering, and Camer-
aon Shannon also received a
citation for failure to attach a
big game tag.
Troopers seized the elk
carcass and also arrested
Michael Shannon. He had a
Umatilla County warrant for
violating probation.
Saturday
afternoon,
another complaint about
hunters led to more citations
and seizures.
A landowner on Gurdane
Road, Morrow County,
Four vehicles involved in crash
Three lanes closed
on Highway 395
ond-season spike tag for
the five-point, according to
state police, but that tag was
valid for a different hunting
unit.
Game troopers took the
elk and Newman’s rifle and
cited him for taking a bull
elk, taking an antlerless elk,
borrowing a big game tag
and hunting outside of unit
boundaries.
Mitchell C. Ashbeck, 71,
of Echo, owned the pickup
and trailer, and troopers
cited him for aiding in a
wildlife offense.
Man arrested for
alleged sex abuse
HERMISTON — A Hermiston man was arrested on
two counts of sex abuse in the first degree on Tuesday.
His bail is set at $100,000.
Court documents state that Francisco Armenta was
arrested for sexually abusing a child under the age of 14,
from January to October of this year.
Armenta, 45, is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on
Dec. 4.
EAST OREGONIAN
Two Hermiston residents
were taken to Good Shep-
herd Medical Center on
Wednesday afternoon after a
crash on Highway 395.
Kevin Bailey, 50, crashed
his black pickup head-on
into Elai Borstad, 25, who
was driving a teal Ford
Escort, according to the ini-
tial report from the Hermis-
ton Police Department.
Bailey’s vehicle then
sideswiped a semi-truck
driven by Trenton Sprinkle,
58, from Forest Grove.
Bailey was taken by
ambulance to Good Shep-
herd in Hermiston and Bors-
tad was taken by private
vehicle. Sprinkle was not
hurt.
The crash appeared to be
related to Bailey suffering
medical issues, according to
the police report.
The crash happened
shortly before 3:30 p.m. in
the 1600 block in front of
Taco Bell in Hermiston and
closed the three center lanes
of the highway, slowing traf-
fic through the area for the
rest of the afternoon. Bailey
reported someone shot,
killed and field dressed a
five-point bull and a cow
elk on his property. The
man said he suspected the
trespassers would return for
the meat.
Three state fish and game
troopers waited in the area
and contacted four people
in a pickup with a horse
trailer.
State police reported the
troopers found Gay Den-
nis Newman, 65, of Herm-
iston, shot the two elk. He
validated his wife’s sec-
Fourth-grade students
offered free holiday tree
HERMISTON HERALD
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Above, a damaged Ford Escort sits on Highway 395 in Hermiston across from Taco Bell after
a crash Wednesday afternoon. Below, olice and firefighters direct traffic around the Escort
and a black pickup that crashed on Highway 395 in front of Taco Bell in Hermiston.
and Borstad’s vehicles were
towed and Sprinkle was able
to move his vehicle.
Police Chief Jason Edmis-
ton said law enforcement
was still piecing together
information from the scene.
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment, Oregon State Police,
the Oregon Department of
Transportation and Uma-
tilla County Fire District 1
responded to the scene.
Every fourth-grader in
the region can cut their
own Christmas tree in the
Umatilla National For-
est for free this holiday
season.
As a part of its Every
Kid in a Park program,
the U.S. Forest Service
is offering students a free
tree cutting permit as long
as they obtain a paper
voucher from www.every-
kidinapark.gov.
They can study for-
est maps and submit their
vouchers at forest offices
in Pendleton, Ukiah, Hep-
pner, Walla Walla, and
Pomeroy, Washington.
If someone wants to
obtain a permit outside the
Every Kid in a Park pro-
gram, they can purchase
them at Ace Hardware
in Hermiston, Bi Mart or
Southgate Mini-Mart in
Pendleton, Zip Zone in
Milton-Freewater,
J&D
Food Mart or Mentzer
and Elliott in Pilot Rock,
Athena Grocery, Rhode’s
Supply in Ukiah, Alpine
Outpost in Tollgate, and
Heppner Mobil.
Permits are $5 and lim-
ited to one per household.
The permits apply only to
the national forest system
and not private, state, or
other federally managed
lands.
For more informa-
tion, contact the forest ser-
vice office in Pendleton at
541-278-3716.
Ex-corrections officers face discipline
HERMISTON HERALD
Two former local correc-
tions officers face the loss
of their state public safety
credentials.
Manuel Yetter, 27, of
Hermiston, was a correc-
tions officer at Two Riv-
ers Correctional Institution,
Umatilla. According to state
records, Yetter on March 26
fired a gun that carried the
risk of injuring others. He
lost his job soon after and
the Oregon Department of
Public Safety Standards and
Training opened an investi-
gation on May 29. Yetter, a
month later, pleaded no con-
test to recklessly endanger-
ing another person.
The Corrections Policy
Committee of the Board on
Public Safety Standards and
Training met Monday in
Salem and voted to recom-
mend denying Yetter’s cer-
tification for three years for
gross misconduct.
The committee also rec-
ommended revoking Mat-
thew Copple’s certifica-
tion for 10 years for gross
misconduct and misuse of
authority. Copple worked as
a corrections deputy for the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Office.
Sheriff Terry Rowan said
Copple has not been with the
sheriff’s office for perhaps
two years now, but he could
not get into the specifics of
Copple’s conduct because it
was a personnel matter.
The two recommenda-
tions go to the Board on
Public Safety Standards
and Training for the final
determinations.
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