MONDAY
2:33 a.m. - An Irrigon man came home and found someone stacked tires and rims outside his shed on Northwest Jewell Drive. He said he was concerned this could be stolen property.
5:03 a.m. - Hermiston fire responded to a fire alarm at Viewcrest Apartments. On response, an activated smoke detector was found in a dumpster. Crews removed the batteries.
7:08 a.m. - A 9-1-1 caller with Central Machinery Sales Inc., 78112 Highway 207, Hermiston, reported someone broke into the business, smashed a knife case and took merchandise.
7:26 a.m. - The driver’s side window was broken out of a car on East Ridgeway Avenue in Hermiston but the resident was unsure if anything was missing.
8:16 a.m. - Across town, the padlock to the front gate of a warehouse on Feedville Road was cut, but the manager reported nothing missing.
8:42 a.m. - A mother reported her stepdaughter was a car thief. The woman said she rented a car on March 18 from Hertz Rent A Car, 80515 Highway 395, Hermiston, to take a trip to California with her daughter and 29-year-old stepdaughter. But somewhere between Medford and Redding, California, she said, the stepdaughter took the car and ditched her. She said she did not remember the name of the town she was in.
9:39 a.m. - The driver of a Humbert Refuse & Recycling vehicle struck a power pole at North Grandview Avenue and West Van Buren Street, Athena, knocking down power lines. No one was injured, and the Milton-Freewater-based garbage service called the power company.
10:35 a.m. - The driver of a Pendleton Sanitary Service Inc. vehicle tore off a phone line or TV cable on Southeast 18th Street, Pendleton. An employee reported the damage and said the driver knocked on the door at the residence but no one answered.
11:09 a.m. - New residents on West Seventh Road, Irrigon, are building a fence, which prompted a neighbor to tell law enforcement the fence is across his driveway and access road.
11:33 a.m. - Pendleton police received a report from Community Bank, 157 S. Main St., Pendleton, about a fraudulent check for $223 from Jeffrey Randolph. As it turns out, Pendleton police arrested him Saturday on multiple charges, including forgery and theft, and he remains in the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.
12:22 p.m. - A resident of South Highway 395 in Hermiston reported the man living across the hall leaves his door open and walks around naked.
12:13 p.m. - Hermiston neighbors on Cooney Lane had a dispute over water rights and one man threatened to shoot the other.
12:36 p.m. - A woman on B Street, Umatilla reported she came home and found a hole in her back door and someone had broken into the house.
12:44 p.m. - Two sheep were killed on Northwest Alder Drive, Pilot Rock. There was no information about who or what killed them or why.
1:01 p.m. - Hertz Rent A Car in Hermiston made police radar again when a caller reported two of the company’s cars were in handicap spots in the parking lot, and she is disabled and needed to use one of the spaces. She asked law enforcement to warn Hertz about using the spots.
1:19 p.m. - A Pendleton woman reported someone slashed all four tires on her vehicle. She said the suspect could be a man she stopped communicating with.
1:53 p.m. - A student at Pendleton High School fell down stairs — possibly while giving someone a piggy-back ride — and broke his leg.
2:25 p.m. - The Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check flagged a 25-year-old Pendleton man for trying to buy a gun. A trooper responded to the Pendleton business and talked to the would-be buyer.
State police reported the man “was adamant” the state of Missouri expunged his juvenile record. The trooper contacted his agency’s firearms unit, and staff there eventually found the expunged records.
“The denial was reversed immediately,” state police reported, and the man faces no criminal charges.
2:40 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for information regarding the standoff in January and February at the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge.
2:46 p.m. - A caller told the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office an Irrigon man posted on Facebook that armed men were in front of his house.
4:31 p.m. - A Pilot Rock man told police his neighbors on East Main Street were calling to harass him and reporting him for everything “under the sun.” He asked for an officer to call him.
3:34 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of possible elder abuse at an assisted living center.
4:51 p.m. - A man reported he saw a blonde woman throw a manila envelope out of an old white and red Ford Bronco at a stop sign on Sunquist Road, Milton-Freewater, so he picked up the envelope and found a Social Security card, driver’s license and credit cards inside. This happened Thursday, he said, but he went on vacation, thus the delay in reporting.
5:05 p.m. - A Hermiston resident reported a juvenile babysitter stole several items from the home on March 5. Some items have been returned, others have not.
5:35 p.m. - A window was shot out of a building on Northeast Fourth Street in Hermiston.
6:43 p.m. - A backpack was stolen from the locker room at Hermiston High School during track practice.
7:38 p.m. - Another firearms check at another Pendleton business flagged a second Pendleton man.
A trooper again responded, but this time the denial held — the 21-year-old man had a conviction for domestic violence assault within the last four months.
7:59 p.m. - Law enforcement and medical teams responded to a report of a car vs. bicycle accident in Hermiston.
9:20 p.m. - Pendleton ambulance responded to Southwest Emigrant Avenue for a male with chest pains. Dispatch noted the caller was “highly intoxicated and patient may be as well.” The ambulance took at least one to the hospital.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Stanfield police arrested Lee Van Troung, 32, no address provided, for possession of methamphetamine.