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Public safety log for Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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7:26 a.m. - Burglars struck a vacant rental house on Northwest Fifth Street, Hermiston, the property owner reported, and added someone also broke into the house Saturday night.

9:28 a.m. - A Pendleton resident on Southwest Eighth Street complained about a neighbor dumping his grass clippings on her lawn, which he also did back in May.

9:47 a.m. - Pendleton police received a report of a crying dog left outside on a deck on Northwest Third Drive. Temperatures in Pendleton averaged 79 on Monday, according to the National Weather Service, and peaked at 98.

10:41 a.m. - A man reported the theft of batteries, yard tools and more from his property on Buffalo Lane, Hermiston.

10:52 a.m. - A man told Hermiston police he was fighting with his girlfriend at Eldorado Apartments, 245 N.W. 11th St., and she wants to take his vehicle.

10:52 a.m. - Dobermans continued to jump a fence on Southeast 10th Street, Pendleton, sparking a call from a neighbor who reported the dogs are vicious.

11:37 a.m. - Hermiston police received a report of a guest at Knights Inn, 425 N. First St., Hermiston, who has a torch, a rattlesnake, and possibly drugs in the room.

11:54 a.m. - A man told Hermiston police someone used his Social Security number to buy vehicles.

1:05 p.m. - A woman skipped out on paying an $85 tab at the Main Street Diner, 349 S. Main St., Pendleton.

1:11 p.m. - Stanfield police contacted an employee at Hunt’s Auto & Fabrication, 170 E. Page Ave., Stanfield, about cleaning up weeds and more around the business.

1:24 p.m. - Umatilla police responded to a complaint on Yakima Street for offensive odor and weeds.

2:43 p.m. - A caller told Stanfield police her former landlord on South Main Street illegally ran electricity to two outbuildings on the property.

3:45 p.m. - A resident on Northeast Riverside Avenue, Pendleton, told police her neighbor posted a speed limit sign and yelled at her to slow down.

8:07 p.m. - A Pendleton man with a warrant asked police if an officer could cite and release him because he has a job and children and would not be able to turn himself in.

20:31 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call about a male on a motorcycle with the cash machine open at Banner Bank, 1220 Southgate. Three minutes later, a caller reported second-hand information that someone tampered with the cash machine at that bank.

8:50 p.m. - Someone broke into a home on East Jennie Avenue, Hermiston. A caller said this is an ongoing problem.

11:38 p.m. - A vehicle crashed into a power pole at Cooney Lane Extension and Bensel Road, Hermiston, which caused the power lines to sag.

•Pendleton police arrested Emmett Lloyd Hankey, 53, no address provided, for possession of methamphetamine.

•Pendleton police arrested Timothy Jay Faria, 29, of Pendleton, for first-degree forgery and identity theft.


Public safety log for Thursday, July 28, 2016

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1:14 a.m. - Law enforcement responded to a report of domestic violence at a residence on West Highland Avenue, Hermiston. A person there refused medical treatment.

5:51 a.m. - A caller on Cooney Lane, Hermiston, reported a female tried to run her over and was heading to Hermiston. The dispatcher noted the caller and other females were screaming at each other.

6:47 a.m. - A man on Harbor Lite Drive, Umatilla, told the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office his property is missing a vacuum, a mirror, a pump, and filter system, and someone “burned up” his barbecue. He said a woman who once stayed with him could be the culprit.

7:20 a.m. - Burglars hit a workshop on North Columbia Street, Milton-Freewater, and stole several tools.

8 a.m. - Someone during the night put sugar in the tank of a woman’s car on Southwest Jay Avenue, Pendleton.

9:38 a.m. - An Oregon Department of Human Services worker told Pendleton police a juvenile she was transporting took off at Trailhead Park on Westgate Place and crossed the Umatilla River. Police did not find the youth.

10:40 a.m. - A truck from Northwest Superfish Company Inc. hauling a fish tank was “all over” the eastbound side of Interstate 84 near Boardman and almost crashed into the person who reported the erratic driving. Law enforcement did not spot the vehicle.

12:07 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of a motor home possibly dumping waste over the ledge at the historical marker on the east end of town.

1:36 p.m. - A Hermiston woman reported her husband was the victim of a scam. She reported he sent $100 via Western Union on July 16 to an outfit that promised he won $1,000 and a new car, and since then they received 40 more calls. She said they have not sent more money, and the scammers threatened to kill them.

1:49 a.m. - A Pendleton man on Southwest First Street again complained about his neighbor throwing garbage into his yard.

4:01 p.m. - A man asked to speak to a Pendleton officer about someone throwing eggs at his house on Northwest 12th Street.

4:08 p.m. - A Pilot Rock resident on Southwest Second Street told police an Aaron’s Rent to Own truck parks in front of his house two or three times a week for 10-12 minutes a day, but no one working for Aaron’s lives there, and the driver does not deliver or take anything during the stops. The caller said this seemed suspicious enough to at least report it.

4:45 - Pendleton police received a call about a white GMC pickup driving over all the mailboxes at a rental property on Southeast 11th Street.

5:04 p.m. - A caller reported the theft of his 1968 Sears 12-foot-long boat from Bartley Road, Stanfield. The boat was on a 1975 trailer, the caller said, but law enforcement found the trailer’s license plate did not show the caller as the owner.

7:26 p.m. - Two boys near Marshall Avenue, Pendleton, threw rocks at vehicles driving on Tutuilla Road.

7:30 p.m. - A caller told Umatilla police a man at a brown house on Southwest Sixth Street grabbed a brown medium-sized dog by the throat and threw it inside the house.

10:02 p.m. - A woman told dispatch she was “everyone’s worst nightmare” and had permission to stay over night at Umatilla Self Storage, 2541 Highway 730, Umatilla, and people were trying to break into other units.

•Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Candelario Gutirrez, 29, no address provided, for felony fourth-degree assault.

Public safety log for Friday, July 29, 2016

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6:34 a.m. - Pendleton Ambulance Services rushed a patient bleeding from post-amputation surgery to a hospital.

9:02 a.m. - A farmer reported the theft of 10 bales of hay from property off Powerline Road, Hermiston. The caller also said there are photos identifying the suspect, who stole hay last week then returned and paid for it. This time, though, the farmer wants to pursue charges.

10:47 a.m. - A guest at Umatilla Inn & Suites, 1370 Sixth St., Umatilla, stole a TV from one of the rooms.

12:18 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about a pasture owner not supplying water to cattle on the property off Lind Road, Umatilla.

12:21 p.m. - Fuel thieves siphoned 130 gallons from a combine, wheat truck and a water truck at Mumford Road and Highway 334, Helix. The property owner also reported the theft of four fire extinguishers.

12:30 - Pendleton emergency services received another call about a patient’s amputation wound continuing to bleed.

2:20 p.m. - A caller on Lewis Street, Umatilla, told police her husband came home to find a pit bull dog and puppies in their yard, and the dogs were “somewhat aggressive.”

2:25 p.m. - An employee the Oregon Department of Human Services told Pendleton police a woman implied she would bomb the state office building at 800 S.E. Emigrant Ave. The caller asked police to speak with the woman.

6:05 p.m. - An Echo man on North Prescott Street reported the theft of his bank card and fishing pole.

6:24 p.m. - Hometown Cleaners, 1810 S.W. Emigrant Ave., Pendleton, reported a money bag with $800 was missing,

6:24 p.m. - Pendleton police received information about possible animal abuse.

7:11 p.m. - Save a cow, save a driver. A woman reported she ran a cow off Highway 204 and up a hill near Kirk Road, Weston. The cow was black “with a crazy stripe on the head,” but the caller said she did not know who owned it.

8:33 p.m. - Employees at the Boardman Shell station, 101 Front St., Boardman, refused to sell beer to an intoxicated man, who threw his change at them and left on foot toward other mini marts.

Law enforcement officers caught up to the coin tosser and told him not to return to the store tonight and advised him of the law on selling alcohol to visibly intoxicated people.

8:07 p.m. - A woman told Pendleton police her estranged husband broke down her door on Northwest 13th Street and beat her 28-year-old boyfriend. The suspect and the victim fled in separate vehicles.

8:37 p.m. - A caller on Southwest Fifth Street, Pendleton, told police his girlfriend’s grandfather was the victim of an assault.

9:31 p.m. - Morrow County law enforcement responded to reports of a man and woman fighting at a house on Wagon Wheel Loop, Irrigon. Officers found the couple only fought with words.

10:56 p.m. - A Pendleton man reported his ex-wife stole his car. He said he let her borrow the car and she was to return it by 10 p.m. When that did not happen, he contacted her, he said, and she told him the car was in Stanfield and “that’s all you need to know.”

11:22 p.m. - An Irrigon woman reported an injured buck entered her yard on Wagon Wheel Loop, Irrigon, and looked like it might charge. A dispatcher advised her to keep people back from the deer and law enforcement was en route to handle it.

11:27 p.m. - Pendleton Fire & Ambulance Services received a report that a man dislocated his arm at the elbow.

•Hermiston police arrested Phouphith David Bounxaysana, 42, of Hermiston, for violating probation and for delivery and possession of methamphetamine and possession of Oxycodone.

Public safety log for Saturday, July 30, 2016

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5:19 a.m. - An Irrigon woman told the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office she thinks her ex-boyfriend sent his friends to harass her. Two pickups using their high beams followed her earlier that morning, she said, and a dark-colored four-door sedan drove by her home on Northeast Eight Street four times. She also said someone vandalized her car.

08:25 a.m. - Pendleton police received a report that security cameras at the Sinclair station and mart at 701 Southgate, Pendleton, revealed an employee there stole $100 from a safe.

9:06 a.m. - A 77-year-old man reported a large beige horse was in his pasture on Kuhn Lane, Hermiston, and he had no way to corral the animal, which was being aggressive.

9:49 a.m. - Pendleton police received the first of several reports of auto break-ins. The crimes took place on the North Hill. Callers on Northwest Fifth and 10th streets and on Bailey, Despain, and Furnish avenues reported the crimes.

10:18 a.m. - A woman at Riverside Mobile Estates, 2712 N.E. Riverside Ave., Pendleton, called 9-1-1 to report the city shut off her water and that was affecting her swamp cooler. A Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher told her this was not the proper use of 9-1-1. The woman hung up.

11:28 a.m. - A woman asked the Umatilla Police Department to have an officer tell the man who owes her $300 to pay up. The department considered this a civil issue.

12:11 p.m. - Pendleton police took a report of a man and woman physically fighting in the presence of three children on Northwest Fifth Street.

1:10 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about people leaving debris at the gun range.

1:30 p.m. - A Heppner woman on Northwest Church Street reported the theft of her guns.

3:11 p.m. - A Pendleton woman told police she received a voice mail from a person who stated, “I advise you to cooperate with us and help us, help you.” The woman reported she did not know who called her and asked to speak to an officer.

3:27 p.m. - An Irrigon resident on Hoop-N-Holler Lane reported someone put sugar in the gas tank of her grandson’s car.

4:44 p.m. - And another harassing phone call prompted a report to the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office. A man said someone claiming to be with the Hermiston Police Department called his father and threatened to blow up his father’s house if he did not pay money.

•The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office cited Elizabeth McKinney of Irrigon for maintaining a dog as a public nuisance at large after a resident on Pheasant Lane, Irrigon, reported a Labrador trapped her in her yard. The caller said this seemed to amuse the neighbor who owned the dog rather than prompting the owner to do something about the situation.

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Douglas Edward Springer, 58, of 4103 N.E. Riverside Ave., Pendleton, for second-degree attempted assault and menacing.

•Hermiston police arrested Rachel Elizabeth Collyer, 32, of Hermiston, on a misdemeanor warrant for fail to appear and on charges of possession of methamphetamine, felon in possession weapon, and carrying concealed weapons.

Public safety log for Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016

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6:37 a.m. - Emergency services in Morrow County responded to a report of a person either lying on the ground or rolled up on a carpet on the side of Interstate 84 near Boardman. Turned out it was bed linens wrapped around a green sheet.

6:57 a.m. - A man on Feedville Road, Hermiston, reported ongoing problems with people dumping in the canal. He said he believed his neighbor is responsible, and Thursday night someone threw in a big mat of grass that plugged his grate and may have burned out a pump.

7:30 a.m. - A resident on Despain Gulch Road, Pendleton, reported two cars drove by his house and fired guns, and one shot ricocheted near his house. He said he drove after them and about two miles down the road stopped and confronted the occupants, who denied having or firing guns.

10:23 a.m. - A Heppner caller reported a drunk man left Murray’s Drug Inc., 217 N. Main St., Heppner, was intimidating people on the sidewalk and walked in and out of the roadway. A Morrow County sheriff’s deputy gave the man a ride to his home.

12:15 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call about a woman on Southwest Emigrant Avenue taking items from porches and placing them on the sidewalk.

1:29 p.m. - Columbia River Community Health Services, 450 Tatone St., Boardman, reported a man with a snake bite was en route to the clinic and asked for an ambulance. He met the ambulance outside the clinic and took it to Good Shepherd Medical Center, Hermiston.

2:16 p.m. - Someone used a lighter to damage walls in the inside common area between the Irrigon City Hall and the city library, 500 N.E. Main St. A city employee discovered the vandalism and also reported nothing was on fire.

4:47 p.m. - An anonymous caller reported four 6-foot-tall marijuana pants are growing on a porch at Homestead Apartments, 516 N.W. Bailey Ave., Pendleton.

5 p.m. - A man told Pendleton police his “ex” and the mother of his children came home intoxicated and assaulted one of the children.

5:19 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office investigated a case of domestic violence in Boardman. A man reported a woman hit and bit him. The sheriff’s office plans to send the report to the district attorney’s office for consideration of charges.

7:34 p.m. - A woman on Highway 730, Umatilla, called 9-1-1 to report she was in her back yard and someone threw a rock that struck her in the face. She declined an ambulance.

9:20 p.m. - A man reported the theft of his 1999 Ford Taurus from Northwest 11th Street and McConnell Lane, Hermiston. He also identified the suspects and said he called them and they refused to return the car.

9:52 p.m. - A Umatilla man reported his wife pushed and hit him several times, then left to go to her mother’s home.

11:43 p.m. - Pendleton police took a complaint about a resident of apartments on Southwest Second Street “screaming very racially profane things” in the middle of the complex. A caller asked police to tell the woman she cannot scream those things.

12:29 a.m. - A male was the victim of an assault on Southeast Ninth Street, Pendleton.

1:30 a.m. - Pendleton police responded to a fight at Mosa, 138 S. Main Street.

5:17 a.m. - An Athena woman woke up and found a man in her house on West Sherman Street. The man identified himself, she said, but he left when she screamed at him to leave.

8:10 a.m. - A Milton-Freewater man reported the theft of his red 1993 Honda Acura from the 300 block of North Elizabeth Street. The caller said the keys were in the car.

9:10 a.m. - A second Milton-Freewater resident reported a vehicle theft. This time a woman said someone stole her 1996 Buick. Police later recovered it in Milton-Freewater.

1:02 p.m. - A 78-year-old Weston man on Highway 204 reported his neighbor threatened to assault him. The man’s son asked law enforcement about a protective order for his father.

1:37 p.m. - A caller reported a black Dodge pickup tried to run her off Highway 730 between Umatilla and Irrigon. She said she passed the pickup, and the driver then followed her, drove into the oncoming lane and made “hand gestures.”

2:18 p.m. - A woman on Southwest Hailey Place, Pendleton, called 9-1-1 after finding someone broke through the bedroom window and stole a laptop and medical marijuana.

3:51 p.m. - A woman asked the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office for a ride to Pendleton so she could go to a rehabilitation center. Dispatch told her no one could give her a ride.

8:44 p.m. - Someone left a door open at Blue Mountain Towing & Recovery Towing Service, 407 Highway 11, Pendleton, and another person entered the house there and stole six guns.

1:14 a.m. - A Milton-Freewater father reported someone broke into his son’s car the previous night on the 100 block of Southwest Sixth Street, Milton-Freewater, and stole a stereo and speakers. And now, the father said, someone threw eggs and dog feces on the car.

2:24 a.m. - Pendleton police searched but did not find a man a caller said stripped naked except for a blue cap on Southwest Fifth Street and walked toward Court Avenue before putting his clothes on.

12:14 p.m. - A caller at Pilot Travel Center, 2115 S. Highway 395, Stanfield, reported people with a country rap band that has a reputation for being aggressive were acting just that way to customers, and a Pendleton resident on Sunday took to social media after spotting tour buses for the country rap performer Mikel Knight, whose street team has a reputation for violence, according to news reports.

1:26 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a report of possible child abuse in Heppner.

2:09 p.m. - Burglars broke into a cabin near 61515 Highway 204, Weston, and stole two flat screen TVs, tools and snowmobile clothing.

3:35 p.m. - Traner’s Plumbing & Heating at 80611 N. Highway 395, Hermiston, was the target of a burglary. A caller reported someone broke into the shop and stole cash and a 12-gauge shotgun.

6:13 p.m. - A resident on Martin Drive, Umatilla, heard five gunshots in the area.

8:32 p.m. - Scam callers threatened a Pilot Rock resident, who told police they demanded he send money or they would release explicit photos and videos online within the hour. Dispatch advised him to contact the Federal Trade Commission and to change website passwords. The man also wanted to speak to an officer.

8:41 p.m. - A Pilot Rock man on West Main Street told police his yard sign now was in the neighbor’s yard, but the neighbor denied taking it.

9:03 p.m. - Homeowners on Marshall Loop, Boardman, confronted a man in a blue Chevrolet S-10 pickup when he sped by their house. The driver, though, got out with a gun. A female passenger pulled him back into the pickup and they left. The callers said the driver was white, thin with long hair and in his 20s. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office and Boardman police responded.

10:03 p.m. - Several juveniles playing Pokémon Go near Dave’s 12th Street Food Mart, 220 S.W. 12th St., Pendleton, prompted a caller to tell police they could be in danger from another group that shows up nightly at the business to “do burn outs and drive reckless.”

Friday

•Oregon State Police arrested Anthony James Wilson, 40, of Pendleton, for felony attempt to flee. State police reported a trooper at about 9:45 a.m. at Despain Gulch and Missouri Gulch roads tried to conduct a traffic stop on a white Hyundai Accent. The driver, though, tried to get away on gravel roads. The pursuit ended around milepost 5 on Missouri Gulch, and the trooper booked Wilson into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.

•Hermiston police arrested Edilberto Garcia Ramirez, 34, no address provided, for conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine and possession of meth.

•Pendleton police arrested Cindy Ranette Whitbeck, 44, of 228 S.W. 28th Drive, Apt. 59, Pendleton, for aggravated harassment, a felony, and attempted aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, for spitting at Pendleton police officer Tyler Reddington.

Saturday

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Jonathan Thomas Tate, 18, of Pendleton, for assault and domestic abuse, both misdemeanors.

Public safety log for Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016

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12:46 a.m. - A 16-year-old Pendleton girl reported her mother was intoxicated and trying to kick her out of the house.

2:06 a.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported hearing seven or eight gunshots in the area of Prodigal Son Brewery & Pub, 230 S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton.

6:05 a.m. - Three Pendleton residents on Southwest 12th Street and Southwest Emigrant Avenue reported vehicle break-ins. Callers said someone during the night opened jockey boxes and center consoles, looked through paperwork and compact discs. No one, though, reported items missing,

10:36 a.m. - Hermiston police received a call for an officer to tell the man sleeping in a black Nissan sedan to move from the side of Mike’s Market, 905 W. Hermiston Ave., Hermiston.

12:10 p.m. - A caller asked Hermiston police to check on an elderly man in Victory Square Park, 150 S.W. 10th St., who appears to be watching children and has a van with cardboard over the windows.

1:54 p.m. - Drakes RV Services, 4701 N.W. A Ave., Pendleton, reported the theft of a trailer.

3:10 p.m. - A man reported he retrieved cans from behind Heppner Junior-Senior High School, 710 Morgan St., and found three prescription bottles in a culvert, along with a dead goat. He said he put back two bottles and kept one and wanted to talk to a Morrow County sheriff’s deputy. He never mentioned taking or leaving the goat.

The sheriff’s office responded and told him the mess he found was on private property.

4:23 p.m. - A guest at the Economy Inn, 835 N. First St., Hermiston, told police someone stole his Seattle Seahawks wallet containing his identification, $3 cash and a credit card with a 34-cent balance.

7:24 p.m. - A mother told Pendleton police her neighbor in an apartment on Northwest J Avenue is harassing and threatening her 11-year-old son. She also said this in an ongoing problem.

8:55 p.m. - The driver of a silver Ford Taurus struck a pedestrian on the 300 block of Southeast Dorion Avenue, Pendleton, then fled the scene. The victim did not need medical help, and someone told police the driver was male with a tattoo on his neck and the passenger was a 20-year-old woman.

10:27 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call that a man was hurting a mother and her son at a home on Southeast 11th Street.

10:33 p.m. - A caller reported the theft of $2,500 in savings bonds from Southwest Eighth Street, Pendleton.

11:11 p.m. - A Pendleton man on Southeast Alexander Place reported someone poisoned his dog.

•Oregon State Police arrested Alvaro Rosas Mendez, 25, of Stanfield, for driving with a suspended/revoked license and driving under the influence of intoxicants (alcohol).

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Larry Brumbach, 37, of 815 Lamb St., Milton-Freewater, for telephonic harassment.

Public safety log for Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016

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12:34 a.m. - Drunk, obnoxious males on Southwest 17th Street, Pendleton, urinated in public.

6:36 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office called Oregon State Police to come to the scene of a crashed pickup on East Birch Creek Road near milepost 4 outside Pilot Rock when a deputy found two dead juvenile wild turkeys in the pickup’s bed. A state trooper seized the illegal game, took photographs for evidence and disposed of the birds in an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife “dead pit.”

11:16 a.m. - Two pit bull dogs walked into a house and moving truck on Northwest Ellis Avenue, Pendleton, while people were trying to load the truck. Police did not find the dogs.

11:25 a.m. - A Pendleton caller on Northwest 14th Street reported a break-in and theft of two TVs, a safe, and two video game systems.

11:36 a.m. - A Pendleton resident on Northwest Eighth Street complained about a neighbor’s dog, a Chihuahua/dachshund mix,that continues to run at large and may have impregnated her dog,

11:56 a.m. - A Pendleton man reported two people he knows are threatening him and his daughter’s mother.

2:09 p.m. - A woman getting ready for a yard sale on South Washington Street, Weston, called 9-1-1 to report she left her cellphone on a table outside, and when she returned the phone was wet. She said she suspected someone put the phone into a bucket of water and then placed it back on the table.

3:13 p.m. - A Weston resident on Lupine Lane reported her neighbor harasses her on the phone, stalks her, and today blocked her driveway. She wanted to talk to a Umatilla County sheriff’s deputy about it.

3:55 p.m. - The owner of a cabin at Owl Hoot Lane and Skyline Road, Weston, reported a break-in and theft of a chainsaw and generator.

6:06 p.m. - A car near the 600 block of Southwest Dorion Avenue, Pendleton, hit a Chihuahua and drove away. Police did not find the car.

7:25 p.m. - A Hermiston-area woman on Frontage Road reported the theft of $8,000 from her safe.

8:49 p.m. - Bicycle thefts are one of the area’s most common crimes, right up there with hit-and-runs. One Milton-Freewater woman reported the theft of a mountain bike from the 200 block of West Broadway, but this time the caller said the thief left a replacement bike.

9:01 p.m. - A caller reported possible poaching of a cow elk at Meadowood Speech & Hearing Camp on Meadowood Road, Weston.

10:16 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a prowler at a house on East Van Buren Street, Athena, but any suspect was gone before the deputy arrived.

11:29 p.m. - A Pendleton resident at Riverside Mobile Estates, 2712 N.E. Riverside Ave., told police a pickup shined its lights inside her house for more than an hour and a half, but it left when she went outside.

Public safety log for Friday, Aug. 5, 2016

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1:22 a.m. - People with flashlights ran around a woman’s house on Highway 339, Milton-Freewater, while her dog chased them. They were gone by the time law enforcement arrived.

5:26 a.m. - An angry Stanfield man prompted tow operators to call 9-1-1. They were on Tawny Court, Stanfield, to take a vehicle when a man came out from the home and threatened to get a weapon. The caller asked for police and said while the vehicle is on the tow trailer, he was fearful the man would return with a weapon before they could finish securing it and leave.

8:18 a.m. - Thieves struck the Northeast Bowhunters shed at Lind Road and Union Street, Umatilla, stealing totes with forms, trophy pins, and shirts.

9:13 a.m. - Two pigs escape their pens on Purdy Lane, Hermiston. Their owner reported they got out sometime since Tuesday around 9 a.m. One was a sow, the other a boar, and both weigh about 60-70 pounds.

9:38 a.m. - A mother told Pendleton police her son is a drug addict, she has not heard from him in nine months, and she has no idea where he lives, but she identified someone he used to associate with years ago.

9:43 a.m. - A Pendleton woman on Southwest Ladow Avenue told police she coaxed a cat bleeding behind both ears into her house and would like an officer to take it.

12:21 p.m. - A caller at St. Anthony Hospital, 2801 St. Anthony Way, Pendleton, reported someone parked in a handicapped spot near the emergency entrance and locked a small dachshund inside the car with the windows rolled up.

1:44 p.m. - A caller reported she stored her vehicle at a home on Lewis Lane, Milton-Freewater, and found out the man there sold her tires and rims off the car, the engine, which was original, and possibly the air conditioning.

4:46 p.m. - An employee at Threemile Canyon Farms, Boardman, reported a supervisor hit on her at work and made her feel uncomfortable. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office advised her to talk to her employer first.

5:18 p.m. - A Pendleton female had an allergic reaction to a bee sting.

8:53 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of two groups fighting at the softball fields at Community Park on Southwest 37th Street.

10:26 p.m. A 9-1-1 caller told Pendleton police a man and woman were fighting in the parking lot at Blue Mountain Village Apartments, 2700 S.W. Goodwin Ave., Pendleton.

10:51 p.m. - OK, here goes: A woman at Shari’s Restaurant & Pies, 319 S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton, told police there was a vehicle in the back of the parking lot there, and a man she knows informed her he was with a woman and took that car because police were looking for it. They then broke a window on the car to get their belongings from the trunk, and the man then found a gun and left with the woman. The caller also said she did not know the woman.

•Oregon State Police cited Joshua Elias Nelson, 40, of Vancouver, for possession of methamphetamine, resisting arrest, and tampering with physical evidence.

The arrest came during a traffic stop around 8 a.m. on the northbound side of Highway 37 near milepost 25 when a trooper recognized a driver he knew was driving while suspended, according to a report from state police. The driver gave permission for the trooper to search the Dodge van, and he found Nelson, one of the passengers, had meth.

Nelson struggled as the trooper tried to arrest him and swallowed the drug, which won him a trip to a St. Anthony Hospital, Pendleton. There, he took off with an IV in his arm and was in the parking lot, which prompted staff to call Pendleton police.

When it was all done, the trooper released Nelson to have to appear in court later to face the charges.

•Umatilla police arrested Paul Edward Robinson, 49, of 10 Jackson St., Umatilla, for possession of methamphetamine.

•Pendleton police arrested Michael Raymond LaFountain, 28, a predatory sex offender from La Grande who skipped his last meeting with his parole officer, for violating parole, giving false information and felon in possession a weapon.

•Stanfield police arrested Jose Heladio Ramirez-Fernandez, 37, no address provided, for possession of methamphetamine and on a misdemeanor warrant.

•Pendleton police arrested Mariah Kay Hurse, 19, of Pendleton, on a state hold and for giving false information, third-degree escape, interfering with a peace officer and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors.


Public saety log for Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016

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4:12 a.m. - A Pendleton caller on Southeast First Street reported a prowler was trying to get in the front door.

6:43 a.m. - Two black dogs ran a horse through a fence on Linville Lane, Umatilla.

9:55 a.m. - A woman told Pendleton police the name of a suspect she thinks slashed her tires, tore off weather striping, broke into the car and stole items while she was at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 2203 S.W. Court Ave.

1:24 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a passenger pointing a gun out of the window of a Nissan Infinity at Agnew and Westland roads, Hermiston.

2:02 p.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported a male crashed his skateboard at Southeast Court Avenue and Court Place, Pendleton, struck his head and was bleeding. A vehicle with an Oregon Ducks sticker in the back window and out-of-state plates picked up the skater and took off.

2:56 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report that one male pulled a knife on another male at Dean’s Market & Deli, 412 S.W. 20th St.

4:24 p.m. - The manager of the Elks Lodge No. 288, 14 S.E. Third St., Pendleton, reported the safe was gone and someone may have entered through the back door.

5:51 p.m. - A Pendleton man on the 300 block of Southwest 18th Street used a football to damage a woman’s vehicle.

12:44 a.m. - Emergency services in Morrow County responded to a call about a 16-year-old girl in Ione having heart problems from smoking marijuana.

1:36 a.m. - Pendleton police responded to the 2000 block of Southwest Perkins Avenue for a vehicle crash and found an unoccupied pickup collided with a parked U-Haul truck. Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts reported the impact sheared off a power pole as well.

“No one was injured as far as we know,” according to the chief. “We checked all of the area hospitals and the taxi company to determine if anyone was admitted or transported — negative on both.”

1:40 a.m. - Several people fought outside the Riverside Sports Bar & Lounge, 1501 Sixth St., Umatilla.

11:07 a.m. - A Pendleton man on Northwest Carden Avenue told police someone entered his unlocked vehicle and stole $400 prescription sunglasses and a gym membership.

11:18 a.m. - The driver of a blue Nissan Quest with Oregon plates swerved across Powerline Road at Sparrow Avenue, Umatilla, a caller reported, and threw beer cans out the window, one of which hit the caller’s car. The report resulted in a Umatilla officer delivering a warning.

11:26 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received another report of an armed person. This time a caller said a male with a gun was hiding in bushes under the bridge at Interstate 82 near Umatilla.

12:41 p.m. - Burglars trashed a house on East Punkin Center Road, Hermiston. The resident reported they opened every drawer and stole guitars and jewelry and maybe more.

1:35 p.m. - A resident at Oregon Trail Manor, 2430 S.W. Perkins Ave., reported the theft of a food box that Community Action Program of East Central Oregon donates once a month.

3:59 p.m. - Someone stole an outdoor table and chairs from the back porch at the law offices of Mautz & O’Hanlon, 101 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton.

4:11 p.m. - Pendleton police received an emergency call about an 11-year-old boy who was out of control, choked himself, and pinned his mother to the floor.

5:44 a.m. - A man wearing a “construction type” vest looked in vehicles at Commercial Tire, 81991 Highway 395, Hermiston.

9:34 a.m. - A caller reported someone dumped calf guts and four calf ears at Columbia Lane and West Eighth Road, Irrigon.

9:47 a.m. - A man in a red shirt and with a backpack opened mailboxes along Highway 730 and Oxbow Lane, Umatilla.

11:06 a.m. - A woman screamed for help when a man beat her behind Cascade Natural Gas, 300 S.W. 17th St., Pendleton.

11:09 a.m. - Two teenage boys, one 16 and one 18, fought on Southeast 11th Street, Irrigon.

12:02 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call about transients going down the stairs on Southwest First Street and Emigrant Avenue and using the space as a toilet.

6:53 p.m. - A boy around 7 and a boy around 12 were running with a long knife at Pendleton Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1401 S.W. Goodwin Place, Pendleton.

10:36 p.m. - Teens in a pickup threw water balloons at a man in the old Albertson’s building, 1300 S.E. Court Ave., then took off.

10:28 p.m. - A caller reported several juveniles tried to break into vehicles at Southwest Isaac Avenue and Second Street, Pendleton.

Friday

•Oregon State Police arrested Andres Viramontes Hernandez, 48, no address provided, for duii. His blood alcohol level was .18 percent, more than twice the legal limit of .08 percent,

Saturday

•Hermiston police arrested Omar Nunez Buenrostro, 23, of Umatilla, for felony fourth-degree assault and violating probation.

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Scott Allen McIntosh, 47, of 122 S.E. Eighth Ave., Milton-Freewater, for possession of methamphetamine.

•Oregon State Police arrested Talitha Marie Mathison, 35, of Hermiston, for driving under the influence of intoxicants and driving while suspended. Her 4-year-old child was in the back of the Honda Civic at the time of the arrest, according to state police, but was not wearing a seat belt. The father came and took the child and the Honda. State police also reported Mathison’s blood alcohol level was .22 percent, almost three times the legal limit, and that was at the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, following the traffic stop at Highway 395 and Locust Street, Stanfield.

•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Vicente Muniz, 38, of Irrigon, for felony fourth-degree assault (domestic violence).

Sunday

•Oregon State Police arrested Nolberto Velaquezrosas, 35, of Prosser, Washington, for duii.

•Pendleton police arrested Tiffany Rodriguez, 43, of Pendleton, for duii.

•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Rodolfo Zavala, 20, no address provided, for duii. He also received citations for driving without a license and careless driving.

•Pendleton police arrested J. Maston Wornell, 36, of Pendleton, for second-degree trespass and possession of methamphetamine.

•Pendleton police arrested Johnny Ray Case, 21, of 1813 S.W. Byers Ave., Pendleton, for fourth-degree assault.

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Jeffery Allen Fields, 46, of Milton-Freewater, for fourth-degree assault and strangulation, both misdemeanors.

•Pendleton police arrested Logan Banning Webb, 33, of Pendleton, for misdemeanor fourth-degree assault of the mother of his child.

•An Irrigon teen faces a Measure 11 rape charge.

Morrow County Circuit Court records show a grand jury on Friday indicted Dallas Lee Martin, 19, of 1215 E. Knapp St., Irrigon, on one count of second-degree rape for having sex in July 2015 with a girl who was younger than 14 at the time. That led to a warrant for his arrest, which the sheriff’s office fulfilled Sunday.

Second-degree rape carries a mandatory minimum sentence in Oregon of six years, three months under Measure 11. The state arraigned Martin on the charge Monday.

Martin remains in the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, in lieu of $50,000 bail. His next court hearing is Aug. 18.

Monday

•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested John Callahan Doherty, 37, of Lexington, for giving false information to police, driving under the influence of intoxicants (alcohol), and on a warrant.

Public safety log for Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016

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7:08 a.m. - Oregon State Police received information about deer carcasses in a water canal off Heritage Lane, Boardman, near the tree farm. A trooper began an investigation but has no suspects yet.

7:14 a.m. - Pendleton police received a report of a male crying in the parking lot on the 200 block of Southwest First Street, and there were items scattered all around him, possibly from a garbage container.

9:03 a.m. - The Oregon Child Development Coalition reported damage to playground equipment at 403 Peabody St., Milton-Freewater.

10:26 a.m. - So much for two-hour parking limits. A caller complained to Pendleton police about a vehicle that has been in front of the Rainbow Cafe, 209 S. Main St., since Friday.

11:09 a.m. - A Pendleton man told police his ex-wife used their teen son’s name to get cable TV service to her residence.

11:44 a.m. - A man on Joy Lane, Hermiston, told the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office someone broke into his house and stole items when he was at the hospital. He said he arrived home around 5-5:30 a.m. and now a rent-to-own company is there to pick up a TV and an entertainment system, both of which are gone.

Noon - A Pendleton woman reported she sent $1,000 to a man in Meridian, Miss., as a down payment for a car she was buying from the internet auction site eBay.com, but she then decided to cancel the transaction but cannot get her money back.

12:24 p.m. - A semitrailer damaged a fuel pump at Pilot Travel Center, 2115 Highway 395, Stanfield, but the driver left the truck stop without saying anything.

12:29 p.m. - The Umatilla code enforcement officer in about two hours checked out overgrown weeds on Alder Avenue, went to a place on Wenatchee Street to try and deliver a citation, took photos of illegal dumping at Sunset Trailer Court on Umatilla River Road, and tried to serve another ticket for weeds at a place on Cliff Street.

3:01 p.m. - Three juveniles were prowling around Southwest 16th Street, Pendleton, and one pulled a knife on a man before the trio fled south.

4:02 p.m. - Someone left a dirty paper plate with ketchup on it in a mailbox on Highway 332, Milton-Freewater. The owner of the mailbox said the post office told her to report the incident to the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office, so she did.

5:42 p.m. - A caller reported a pit bull dog on North Fourth Street, Athena, tried to attack her mother and her dog. The pit bull, according to the caller, bit another person two weeks ago.

6:02 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received the first of two calls reporting suspicious activity involving vehicles.

The first caller said men may have been trying to rob her and her 10-year-old daughter on Sunday around 11:30 a.m. at Scaplehorn Road and Third Street, Umatilla, on the McNary Wildlife Nature Area. One man pretended to fish, she said, and three other men were in a white van, and when she drove to the round-about a gold and tan van followed her. All of the men, she stated, stared at her and her daughter, and when the sliding door opened on the second van and a man started to get out, she took off.

6:26 p.m. - The second caller reported three males in a maroon Ford Crown Victoria with Washington Plates were “cruising around Athena” near the elementary school.

8:49 p.m. - A caller reported a newer black Dodge Durango stopped at Southwest Hailey Avenue and 30th Street, Pendleton, and someone pushed out a border collie, then sped off.

9:29 p.m. - Lightning caused a fire near Stewart Creek Road, Pilot Rock.

Monday

•A traffic stop led an Oregon State Police trooper to arrest a wanted man who was carrying a set of metal knuckles.

The trooper stopped a red Dodge Dart at 6:27 a.m. on Highway 207 near milepost 15A, Umatilla, and found Umatilla County had a failure-to-appear warrant for the driver, Archivaldo Marquez Guzman, 23, of Plymouth, Washington.

The trooper searched Guzman, according to a report from state police, and found the metal knuckles in his back pocket. The cop arrested Guzman on the warrant and for carry a concealed weapon, and also cited Guzman for driving while suspended and without a valid license.

•Oregon State Police arrested Robert Gene Morley, 48, of 1500 S.E. Byers Ave., Apt. 12, Pendleton, for possession of methamphetamine and driving while suspended/revoked.

•Hermiston police arrested Andrew Joseph Hauser, 22, of Pilot Rock, for possession of methamphetamine and on a warrant.

Tuesday

•Hermiston police arrested Jessica Cruz, 32, of Hermiston, for possession of methamphetamine and violating probation.

•A young Pendleton woman faces misdemeanor charges after she almost caused a crash on Interstate 84.

Oregon State Police reported dispatch received a 9-1-1 call at 2:45 a.m. of a female running into traffic on Interstate 84 near milepost 202, about five miles west of Pendleton. OSP Sgt. Sterling Hall responded and found an “extremely intoxicated” Irma Bako Taeyana, 20.

Witnesses reported she was in a vehicle and asked the driver to pull over so she could use the restroom. When she got out, though, she “took off running.”

Taeyana ran right in front of a semitrailer, according to state police, causing the driver to slam on the brakes and skid to a stop. She then tried to get into the cab of the semi, and the driver called 9-1-1.

She ran again, crossed the median and entered the westbound lanes, but the witness later found her lying in the center median.

Hall arrested Taeyana and booked her into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, for second-degree disorderly conduct and third-degree mischief.

Public safety log for Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016

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10:40 a.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported a male appeared to hit a female in a vehicle that left Agape House, 500 W. Harper Road, Hermiston, toward Geer Road.

12:25 p.m. - Roundup City Repair, 346 S.W. Third St., Pendleton, reported an employee has been stealing from the company.

1:05 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of dog neglect on Northwest 15th Street.

2:13 p.m. - A Weston caller on South Water Street reported someone cut the lock on her garage. She identified two suspects, including “Fathead Mike,” but she did not know the last name.

5:32 p.m. - A woman told Pendleton police someone stole her 1998 Buick Park Avenue from the area of South Main Street and Southwest Goodwin Avenue around 2 in the morning.

7:43 p.m. - Five juveniles at Northgate Apartments, 509 Northgate Drive, Pendleton, threw broken glass into the street and were being disruptive.

7:52 p.m. - A woman on Jefferson Street, Umatilla, told police a person dressed all in black and wearing a black ski mask knocked on her door at 12:30 p.m., when her cousin was the only person home. The caller said she decided to report this after talking to her mother.

7:55 p.m. - An Irrigon caller on Southeast Thomas Avenue reported something got into the pasture and killed their two sheep and two goats.

8:06 p.m. - Umatilla police received an emergency report of a male in “rough clothes” breaking into a vacant house on El Monte Street.

8:48 p.m. - A father told Pendleton police his ex-wife brandished a firearm when they exchanged their child at his residence.

9:21 p.m. - The Umatilla County dispatch center received a 9-1-1 call about a man and a woman fighting over a phone on Northeast 10th Street, Hermiston. Another woman, though, became upset with the person making the emergency call, and a dispatcher had to tell her to stop interfering with the call, which is against Oregon law. The man called back and said he was at his house in case law enforcement needed to talk to him, and the woman said she was going home as well.

10:04 p.m. - A caller reported a dead calf by a cornfield at West Walls and Craig roads, Hermiston. Bailing twine was around the animal’s legs, as if someone dragged it, and someone cut it open.

•Hermiston police arrested Jessica Moreno Cruz, 32, of Hermiston, for possession of methamphetamine and violating probation.

•Umatilla police arrested Sarah Melissa Tune, 30, of Pendleton, for possession of methamphetamine, violating parole, and contempt of court.

•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested, Jeani Elyse Marlatt, 29, of Pendleton, for second-degree escape, felony attempt to elude, fourth-degree assault, reckless endangering, and on a warrant for fail to appear.

The arrest came after a caller at 7 p.m. reported as she and her family were leaving Heppner Family Foods, 238 N. Main St., Heppner, a middle-aged white woman took photos of her and her vehicle. The caller said she confronted the picture-taker, who left in a white Kia.

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Adrienne Lynn Berry, 31, of Pendleton, for pointing a firearm at another, menacing, and unlawful use of a weapon.

Public safety log for Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016

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7:30 a.m. - A man on Craig Road, Hermiston, reported his ex-girlfriend was asked to leave the house last night and when he woke up he found that someone had slashed the tires on his new girlfriends’ car and also scratched its paint.

8:57 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a report of vandalism at the Helix swimming pool.

11:07 a.m. - A woman on Northeast Riverside Avenue, Pendleton, asked to speak to an officer about neighbors pointing cameras at her residence.

12:13 p.m. - A caller on Southwest Lake Drive, Pendleton, reported the theft of a Honda four-wheel all-terrain vehicle.

12:41 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a request to have a deputy help investigate possible abuse.

3:54 p.m. - A Hermiston man on Cactus Drive reported his father assaulted him. He also declined medical help.

6:35 p.m. - A Heppner woman reported she thought her neighbors were stealing from her, but now she knows it was not the neighbors.

8:16 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call from a male in Athena who reported his mother was drunk and threw an object at him that struck his left shoulder. He refused medical help and said she went to her own room.

8:43 p.m. - Umatilla Tribal Police Department asked to have a Umatilla County sheriff’s deputy help find a vehicle in Weston that was involved in poaching four or five deer on tribal land.

9:28 p.m. - Umatilla police received a report of a dark green Subaru Forester circling around the neighborhood on Tucker Avenue.

9:43 p.m. - A woman on Rio Senda Drive, Umatilla, told police she has an ongoing problem with a male and female trespassing on her property and shining a light in her bedroom window.

•A taxi driver’s call to police resulted in the arrest of his rider.

The driver around 12:40 a.m. reported he was taking a woman from Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Walla Walla, to a detoxification facility in Pendleton, according to the report from Oregon State Police. But when they reached Milton-Freewater, the driver said, the woman became antsy and grabbed the steering wheel to try and get him to take her back to the hospital.

Instead, he pulled over and waited for police. An Oregon state trooper arrived and found the passenger, Sarah E. Clark, 36, of Milton-Freewater, was under the influence of a drug. He convinced her to get into his police car, but once she reached the car she bolted into traffic “in front of another vehicle in an attempt to get the car to hit her.”

The trooper arrested Clark for second-degree disorderly conduct and booked her into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.

•Stanfield police arrested Clinton Lavon Lathrom, 41, of Stanfield, for first-degree arson, first-degree criminal mischief (vandalism), coercion and on a felony probation violation. The Umatilla County District Attorney’s office in court documents alleges Lathrom set fire to property belonging to relatives.

•Oregon State Police cited Clifford Warren Hyatt, 60, of Pendleton, for failing to obey a traffic control device following a two-vehicle crash at Southwest 10th Street and Dorion Avenue, Pendleton. Hyatt works for the city of Pendleton and was driving a city vehicle at the time. There were no injuries, but tow trucks hauled off both vehicles.

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Rodrick Kainen Edmiston, 20, of Pendleton, for domestic abuse and escape.

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Victor Saldana, 22, of 917 Robbins St., Milton-Freewater, for third-degree assault and first-degree criminal mischief (vandalism).

Public safety log for Thusday, Aug. 18, 2016

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8:49 a.m. - Aggressive dogs keep coming onto the property of a Hermiston man on East Punkin Center Road. He reported the dogs belong to a neighbor and one time attacked his dog,

11:12 a.m. - An employee of the mental health provider Lifeways Inc., 331 S.E. Second St., Pendleton, asked police to trespass a man that sleeps next to the building and refuses to leave.

11:53 a.m. - Loose gravel from a dump truck damaged two vehicles on Interstate 84 near Stanfield. Oregon State Police responded and found the truck lost part of its load. The company owner of the truck also arrived and agreed his insurance will cover the damage, according to state police. Oregon Department of Transportation workers cleaned up the debris.

12:39 p.m. - A Pendleton man asked police to send extra patrols through his neighborhood on Southwest Ladow Avenue. He said his dogs started barking around 11 p.m. Monday night, and he saw several people hanging around on the street in front of a neighbor’s house. The man said he yelled at them, and they ran to a pickup and took off.

12:53 p.m. - A caller reported someone broke into her camper and several others at Irrigon Mini Storage, 202 Highway 730, Irrigon. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

5:17 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man hitting a woman at Trail Apartments, 295 Boardman Ave. N.E., Boardman.

5:18 p.m. - Callers reported checking on a neighbor’s cabin on Jack Pine Lane, Weston, and discovered someone broke into the place and scattered items all over. They asked for a Umatilla County sheriff’s deputy to respond.

6:15 p.m. - A man on Switzler Avenue, Umatilla, called 9-1-1 and said he locked his keys in his car. A dispatcher told him this was not an emergency and provided him the right numbers to call.

7:30 p.m. - An employee of Baxter Auto Parts, 336 S.W. Emigrant Ave., Pendleton, reported receiving a call from a male that asked how many people were in the store, how long they were there after they close, if they make deposits at night and more. Soon after, the employee said, a Hispanic male and two females entered the store and may have walked out with something. The employee said the man may have been the caller and asked police to send extra patrols through the area.

Public safety log for Friday, Aug. 19, 2016

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8:18 a.m. - A transient in Milton-Freewater reported the theft of his dog from the alley behind El Sirloin, 503 N. Main St.

9:36 a.m. - A woman told Pendleton police she was pregnant, has a 2-year-old daughter and paid her rent, yet her father was trying to kick her out.

11:14 a.m. - A caller reported renters on the 900 block of Southeast Emigrant Avenue, Pendleton, dumped their garbage into the waste container belonging to nearby Franz Bakery Outlet Store, 916 S.E. Court Ave.

1:18 p.m. - A Pendleton man reported receiving several scam calls and asked police to log his report for information only.

2:28 p.m. - Pendleton police received information about one male assaulting another on July 25.

3:42 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of physical abuse occurring in a home on Northwest Third Street.

4:01 p.m. - A caller reported people trespassing in a vacant house at 31996 Diagonal Road, Hermiston, and they are using an electrical extension cord to steal power.

4:36 p.m. - A resident on Southeast Court Place, Pendleton, told police her landlord put a couple bags of garbage by her window.

7:50 p.m. - A Pendleton woman had to yell at two large white dogs to keep them at bay in the area of Southeast Byers Avenue and 19th Street. She also told police who owned the dogs.

8:36 a.m. - Someone stole the tip jar off the window at the drive-up Sorbenots Coffee, 402 S.E. Ninth St., Pendleton.

9:27 p.m. - A Hermiston-area woman reported her ex-boyfriend is harassing her via phone.

9:27 p.m. - A man and some of his friends showed up at the emergency department at St. Anthony Hospital, Pendleton. The victim had an Airsoft pellet gun wound to his right index finger that he said was caused by friends trying to shoot a cigarette out of his hand.

9:42 a.m. - A man reported he was locked inside the storage facility near the 600 block of West Coe Street, Stanfield, and asked for an officer to come and enter the gate code so he could get out.

10:14 p.m. - A resident on Southwest Ladow Avenue, Pendleton, told police the neighbors were making a din while chopping wood, and she did not want to contact them because they are confrontational. Not to mention, you know, they probably had an ax.

•Boardman police arrested Ceira Rachelle Hendon, 22, for possession of methamphetamine, and Tyler Blaine Davis, 43, also for possession of meth and for delivery of meth and felon in possession of a weapon.

Public safety log for Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016

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7:18 a.m. - Emergency workers freed a woman from a crash off Highway 206 near milepost 79. Oregon State Police reported the glare of the sun blinded the 64-year-old woman, leading to the Chevrolet Trailblazer drifting off the right shoulder and rolling down a steep embankment where it crashed onto the driver’s side, trapping her.

Two children who were in the Chevrolet climbed out unharmed. State police did not report if the woman required medical treatment.

7:48 a.m.- A Hermiston mother told police her son ran away on Northeast Fourth Street. She said his grandmother brought him home and moments later he took off on foot toward Main Street while wearing a red t-shirt “with batmobile and shorts (and) bright blue sneakers.”

8:13 a.m. - Umatilla County dispatch received a report of an illegal burn at 372 E. Ginney Ave., Hermiston.

9:08 a.m. - A caller reported an old theft of a Kubota four-wheeler from a residence on Bensel Road, Hermiston.

12:45 p.m. - Hermiston police received a report of a black rottweiler locked inside a black Mercury Cougar with the windows opened just a crack in the parking lot at the Dollar Tree Store, 880 S. Highway 395, in the Hermiston Plaza.

2:58 p.m. - An Athena caller reported she went to mow her lawn on West High Street and found two marijuana plants.

3:18 p.m. - A call came into Hermiston police about two dogs in a hot car with windows “cracked” open in the parking lot at Safeway, 990 S. Highway 395, which also is in the Hermiston Plaza.

3:54 p.m. - An employee at Washington Federal, 305 E. Main St., Hermiston, told police a male parked his vehicle in the bank’s drive-through, changed his clothes, stuffed something in his pants and took off running towards Restaurant La Palma, 231 E. Hurlburt Ave., and left the vehicle.

4:31 p.m. - A man reported someone broke into his vehicle on Tuesday night on East Darwin Street, Athena, and stole his pistol, knife, and more.

6:39 p.m. - A daughter on Filmore Street, Umatilla, reported her parents were fighting and her father was “putting hands on” her mother.

8:50 p.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported three females threatened to jump off the Interstate 82 bridge at Umatilla, but he said he was driving by and had no other details.

10:06 p.m. - Dogs tried all day to escape their residence on East Sandstone Avenue, Hermiston, a caller reported, adding there could be something wrong.

•Oregon State Police cited Travis David Love, 43, of Hermiston, for driving under the influence of intoxicants. His blood-alcohol content was .20 percent, according to state police, more than twice the legal limit of .08 percent.

•A traffic stop led to the arrest of a Boardman man wanted for rape.

An Oregon State Police trooper at 11:45 p.m. pulled over a white Hyundai Tiburon after the driver failed to dim bright headlights on Highway 730 and a frontage road. The trooper checked to see if the driver, 24-year-old Mariano Morales Hernandez, had any warrants.

He had one — a Marion County Circuit Court warrant for two counts of second-degree rape, a major felony in Oregon.

The trooper arrested Hernandez and booked him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.


Public safety log for Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016

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6:26 a.m. - A Heppner man reported someone entered his 1986 Toyota pickup on Northeast Center Street and ripped out the stereo and dashboard.

10:51 a.m. - A caller asked Pendleton police to check on her friend who is the victim of verbal domestic abuse.

2:30 p.m. - Pendleton emergency services responded to a report of a tire blowing apart at Les Schwab Tire Center, 1550 Southgate Place, Pendleton, and possibly injuring two people.

3:08 p.m. - Pendleton police dealt with yellow signs someone posted around town advertising “earn $10,000 every 2 weeks,” along with a number to call. The signs, though, violate city law.

4:25 p.m. - A man on West Elm Avenue, Hermiston, reported his goat was missing. The goat was male, white, with horns and weighed about 100 pounds.

5:34 p.m. - Two males fought in front of Sherwood Heights Elementary School, 3111 S.W. Marshall Ave., Pendleton.

5:53 p.m. - An Irrigon man on Southeast Utah Avenue reported a silver Ford car with black sharks painted on was going 45-50 mph around his house.

7:41 p.m. - Stanfield police received a domestic violence call about a woman assaulting a man on North Sloan Street.

8:26 p.m. - A dancer showed up intoxicated to work at the Riverside Sports Bar and Lounge, 1501 Sixth St., Umatilla, but the business did not allow her to stay. An employee called a taxi for her, but she left in a black Mercedes SUV.

12:06 a.m. - The stench of marijuana prompted a Pendleton woman to call police. She said she lived in an apartment on Northeast Riverside Avenue, and she was not sure which apartment was using the substance, but the smell bothered her and her animals.

3:11 a.m. - A caller reported a burglary in progress at a residence on Ringer Road, Milton-Freewater.

9:41 a.m. - A man reported the driver of a dark-colored Toyota pickup with an extended cab threw out trash near Sand Hollow Road and Highway 74, Heppner, then “got mouthy” when the caller yelled at him. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office spotted the pickup and warned the driver.

12:40 p.m. - a 15-year-old boy in Heppner assaulted his sister and mother.

4:48 p.m. - A woman reported a man she knows threw a brick at her vehicle on Northeast Second Street, Hermiston.

7:04 p.m. - Pendleton police received a report of something like parallel parking rage. A man said a driver in a red Toyota Camry tried to parallel park without using a signal at South Main Street and Southwest Court Avenue. The caller said he drove around the Camry, which then sped up to about 50 mph on Court Avenue, followed him and yelled at his passenger before turning to take Dorion Avenue toward Main.

1:12 a.m. - A caller reported a man and woman looked like they were assaulting each other in a car in a parking lot on West Jennie Avenue, Hermiston.

4:18 a.m. - Two males, possibly juveniles, tried to break into an RV and a pickup in the parking lot of Super 8 Motel, 601 S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton. The RV owner was inside at the time, and the pair bolted into the field behind the hotel.

1:52 p.m. - An Irrigon resident reported the driver of a 1980s model gold Chevrolet pickup speeds on Southeast Utah Avenue. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office contacted the driver, who said he would slow down.

7:20 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call about a male with a pistol in a blue SUV near McKay Creek Elementary School, 1539 S.W. 44th St., Pendleton.

8:36 p.m. - Juveniles smashed pumpkins and watermelons in a field behind Paul Smith Road, Boardman. The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office responded, and the youths arranged to reimburse the owner.

9:03 p.m. - A man on Pendleton Avenue, Umatilla, reported someone just egged his house.

10:16 p.m. - One male assaulted another at East and Sixth streets, Umatilla.

Friday

•Stanfield police arrested Ashton Rhea Kayser, 25, of 3485 McKenna Drive, Apt. 1, Eugene, for driving under the influence of alcohol and unlawful possession of a firearm.

•Oregon State Police reported Milton-Freewater officer Jesse Myer was on a traffic stop at 8:33 p.m. on Highway 11 near milepost 32 when a vehicle crashed into the police car and almost hit the officer.

Karen Elaine Mcauliffe, 50, of Athena, dropped her Pepsi while she was driving a Buick Century, according to state police, and that caused her to collide with the cop car. She also told police she had not eaten or slept for multiple days.

State police cited Mcauliffe for reckless driving and recklessly endangering another person.

Saturday

•Pilot Rock police cited Cody D. Wise, 28, of 1224 S.W. 44th St., Pendleton, for duii.

•Oregon State Police arrested Jonathan King, 26, of Milton-Freewater, for duii.

•Umatilla Community Justice Department arrested James Richard Crane, 61, of 46373 Mission Road Pendleton, on a probation violation and for felon in possession of a weapon.

•Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kayla Marie Connell, 24, of 690 East Highway 730, No. 58, Irrigon, for second-degree trespass, possession of methamphetamine and first-degree burglary.

•Security officers at Wildhorse Resort & Casino near Pendleton caught two people with drug paraphernalia in backpacks as they entered the gaming establishment. Security called tribal police, and officers arrested Thomas Brian Rushing Jr., 29, for possession of heroin and on a warrant, and Christine Gonzalez, 22, for unlawful possess of a firearm, possession of heroin, and possession of a controlled substance.

•A repeat drunk driver ended up in jail after going the wrong way.

Oregon State Police reported a trooper at 10:24 p.m. saw a Jeep turn northbound on Highway 339 at milepost 1 and drive in the oncoming lane. The trooper stopped the vehicle and contacted the driver, Roel Ibanez, 59, of Walla Walla, who seemed impaired.

Ibanez agreed to a sobriety test, according to state police, and showed “multiple clues of impairment.” The trooper arrested Ibanez and took him to the Milton-Freewater Police Department, where his blood-alcohol level was .16 percent, two times the legal limit.

From there, the trooper booked Ibanez into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, and also cited him for driving while suspended.

Police also found Ibanez had four previous arrests for duii. State court records show he pleaded no contest to duii in 2011 and completed a diversion program, which led to the dismissal of that case. And he pleaded guilty to duii in March 2013 and received three years probation, which included no consumption of alcohol.

Sunday

•Umatilla police arrested Oscar Miguel Mejia, 30, of Hermiston, for a parole violation, giving false information, and felon in possession of a weapon.

•Security officers at Wildhorse Resort & Casino again spotted drug paraphernalia with a person entering the casino and again called tribal police, who arrested Jessica Nigail Stevens, 24, for possession of heroin.

•Pendleton police arrested Skylar Adam Eagle Speaker, 26, no address provided, for unauthorized use of a vehicle.

•Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Elias Charles Mendoza, 29, of 130 W. Beebe Ave., Hermiston, for possession of meth.

•Pendleton police arrested Jennifer Ann Allen, 27, of Pendleton, for unauthorized use of a vehicle.

Public safety log for Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016

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7:30 a.m. - A man on Craig Road, Hermiston, reported his ex-girlfriend was asked to leave the house last night and when he woke up he found that someone had slashed the tires on his new girlfriends’ car and also scratched its paint.

8:57 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a report of vandalism at the Helix swimming pool.

11:07 a.m. - A woman on Northeast Riverside Avenue, Pendleton, asked to speak to an officer about neighbors pointing cameras at her residence.

12:13 p.m. - A caller on Southwest Lake Drive, Pendleton, reported the theft of a Honda four-wheel all-terrain vehicle.

12:41 p.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a request to have a deputy help investigate possible abuse.

3:54 p.m. - A Hermiston man on Cactus Drive reported his father assaulted him. He also declined medical help.

6:35 p.m. - A Heppner woman reported she thought her neighbors were stealing from her, but now she knows it was not the neighbors.

8:16 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call from a male in Athena who reported his mother was drunk and threw an object at him that struck his left shoulder. He refused medical help and said she went to her own room.

8:43 p.m. - Umatilla Tribal Police Department asked to have a Umatilla County sheriff’s deputy help find a vehicle in Weston that was involved in poaching four or five deer on tribal land.

9:28 p.m. - Umatilla police received a report of a dark green Subaru Forester circling around the neighborhood on Tucker Avenue.

9:43 p.m. - A woman on Rio Senda Drive, Umatilla, told police she has an ongoing problem with a male and female trespassing on her property and shining a light in her bedroom window.

•A taxi driver’s call to police resulted in the arrest of his rider.

The driver around 12:40 a.m. reported he was taking a woman from Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Walla Walla, to a detoxification facility in Pendleton, according to the report from Oregon State Police. But when they reached Milton-Freewater, the driver said, the woman became antsy and grabbed the steering wheel to try and get him to take her back to the hospital.

Instead, he pulled over and waited for police. An Oregon state trooper arrived and found the passenger, Sarah E. Clark, 36, of Milton-Freewater, was under the influence of a drug. He convinced her to get into his police car, but once she reached the car she bolted into traffic “in front of another vehicle in an attempt to get the car to hit her.”

The trooper arrested Clark for second-degree disorderly conduct and booked her into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.

•Stanfield police arrested Clinton Lavon Lathrom, 41, of Stanfield, for first-degree arson, first-degree criminal mischief (vandalism), coercion and on a felony probation violation. The Umatilla County District Attorney’s office in court documents alleges Lathrom set fire to property belonging to relatives.

•Oregon State Police cited Tracy Glen Harris, 49, of Pendleton, for failing to obey a traffic control device following a two-vehicle crash at Southwest 10th Street and Dorion Avenue, Pendleton. There were no injuries, but tow trucks hauled off both vehicles.

•Umatilla tribal police arrested Rodrick Kainen Edmiston, 20, of Pendleton, for domestic abuse and escape.

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Victor Saldana, 22, of 917 Robbins St., Milton-Freewater, for third-degree assault and first-degree criminal mischief (vandalism).

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This story was updated to correct a citation inaccurately reported by Oregon State Police.

Public safety log for Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016

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7:33 a.m. - A man asked for an officer to come take care of a wounded crow in the back yard of his home on Highland Avenue in Hermiston, otherwise his dogs would get out and kill it.

9:17 a.m. - A 37-year-old woman suffered minor injuries when she crashed near Milton-Freewater.

Oregon State Police reported Alicia Marie Lopez was driving north on Highway 11 in a Suzuki Esteem when she failed to stay in the lane and struck the curb near milepost 32. The car went over the curb and crashed into a power pole before rolling onto one side. Even so, according to state police, she did not need an ambulance.

10:04 a.m. - A Pepsi truck backed into a residence at Castle Rock Apartments, 451 Tatone St., Boardman, and a caller reported the collisions may have damaged a gas line. Boardman fire and police responded, along with the Umatilla Electric Cooperative and Cascade Natural Gas Corp.

10:11 a.m. - A Hermiston theft victim reported over $600 worth of fraudulent charges were made on a credit card.

11:11 a.m. - A Pendleton woman reported the St. Bernard that lives at 422 N.W. 11th St. almost attacked her and her dog, and the big dog’s owner did not apologize.

11:36 a.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about mistreated horses at the intersection of Highway 207 and Willow Creek Road. The sheriff’s office found the horses had water and were well fed.

12:04 p.m. - The Boardman ambulance responded to ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, 600 Columbia Avenue N.E., Boardman, after a man fell 8-10 feet and suffered arm pain.

12:17 p.m. - Umatilla police checked on possible dog abuse at Columbia Crest Apartments, 1561 Third St., Umatilla.

12:30 p.m. - A caller reported vandalism to his vehicle at Edgewater Condominiums, 27 N.W. 12th St., Pendleton.

1:38 p.m. - A Pendleton man reported his wife tried to steal money from their business and hit him.

2:04 p.m. - A caller told Pendleton police a seventh-grader attacked her brother at the Rudy Rada Skate Park, 101 Northgate, Pendleton.

3 p.m. - A man who lives on SW 12th Street, Hermiston, said a thin male tried to come into his house around 11:45 a.m. and ran off when he saw the homeowner. He wanted to speak with an officer.

3:53 p.m. - A worker with the state division of child support told Pendleton police two males wearing red bandannas were “talking to everyone that walks by” and dancing around on the 700 block of Southeast Emigrant Avenue.

6:06 p.m. - A Umatilla resident on Covina Court asked for an officer to come to his home because a cat that was poisoned was on his patio.

6:19 p.m. - A Stanfield man reported his stepdaughter assaulted her mother and took off in a car. The mother declined medical help. Stanfield police began an investigation.

6:22 p.m. - Wagontire Towing, Meacham, reported a man was to remove only personal belongings from a vehicle and instead took everything of value.

7:21 p.m. - A 13-year-old Hermiston girl received a recording on Facebook from a Hispanic male speaking Spanish offering her beer and other things “too bad to disclose,” according to the girl’s mother. The mother asked for a Spanish-speaking officer to talk to her in front of the police station.

7:59 p.m. - Law enforcement received a report of an archer trying to poach deer on the west side of Umatilla River Road near Sunset Trailer Court, Umatilla. The archer was gone by the time officers checked.

8:57 p.m. - A caller near Northwest 11th Street, Pendleton, told police a male yelled that he wants to shoot someone, he wants to go back to prison, and “I want to shoot at cops.”

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Leobardo Saldana Herrera, 42, of Milton-Freewater, for driving under the influence of intoxicants.

•Pendleton police arrested Tyson John Payton, 32, of Pendleton, for strangulation constituting domestic violence.

•Oregon State Police arrested Victor Matias Lopez, 31, of Jerome, Idaho, for duii.

•Devin Lee Robert Butts, 24, of Graham, Texas, ended up under arrest in Pendleton less than six hours after getting out of jail.

Pendleton police responded to a report at 8:39 p.m. of two men fighting on the 200 block of Southwest 20th Street between Rite Aid and Safeway. Officers there arrested Butts for fourth-degree assault and second-degree disorderly conduct and booked him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.

Stanfield police on Sunday arrested Butts for trespassing and booked him into the jail, and he got out Monday at 2:55 p.m.

Public safety log for Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016

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7:58 a.m. - Hermiston police received a request to check on two skinny dogs on East Reeder Drive.

9:31 a.m. - A man reported the theft of mechanical bags of tools from the bed of his truck at Villadom Mobile Home & RV Park, 53785 W. Crockett Road, Milton-Freewater,

9:58 a.m. - A son reported his mother was trying to break into his father’s house at a trailer park on Sixth Street, Umatilla.

11:01 a.m. - A Pendleton mother reported her daughter’s fellow students harassed her all summer on social media.

11:21 a.m. - The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a male yelling at a boy on South Main Street, Heppner, and the male may have him on the ground. A deputy contacted the child and his grandmother, who was disciplining the boy. The deputy found no evidence of injury or a crime.

11:58 a.m. - A 6-year-old boy tried to use a metal rod to hit other children at May Park, 180 S.E. Isaac Ave., Pendleton. An officer checked the area and spoke to several juveniles but did not find the rod-wielder.

12:08 p.m. - A Hermiston resident reported a possible Medicare scam. She said a caller claimed to be with the agency and wanted to measure her husband for a back brace, and she provided her husband’s Social Security number. But when she called back, no one answered.

12:48 p.m. - A Hermiston woman asked for police to help her take care of the dog her mother left her because she had no gas money to take the dog to a shelter. A dispatcher asked for her phone number and mother’s name, and she said, “That’s OK,” and disconnected.

1:06 p.m. - A man asked Hermiston police to check on his great-grandson because he was “living in filth with no clean running water” in an “old junky motorhome” in the parking lot of the Wal-mart Supercenter, 1350 N. First St.

7:05 p.m. - A mother told Hermiston police her 10-year-old daughter reported a male threatened “to do bad things to her and drag her away.” The mother said the incident happened on Aug. 19, and her daughter would not leave their home since then, and she finally cried and said what happened.

7:29 p.m. - Someone dropped off three kittens at a woman’s home on Northeast Court Street, Heppner. She told the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office her dog would try to kill them.

7:43 p.m. - A caller told Pendleton police a male threw rocks at a car in the parking lot of Mac’s Bar & Grill, 1400 SW Dorion Ave., Pendleton.

10:05 p.m. - Hermiston police received a report of a man choking and hitting a woman near Sandstone Middle School, 400 N.E. 10th St.

•A Umatilla man faces a felony theft charge for stealing at least $1,000 from the Sub Zero Restaurant & Lounge, Irrigon.

The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested William Alexander Sutton, 39, and booked him into the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, for first-degree theft, a Class C felony. State court records show a Morrow County grand jury indicted Sutton for stealing money from the establishment’s cash box on June 29. The district attorney’s office Wednesday morning charged Sutton on the lone count.

•A woman rushing to meet her husband at the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, might be able to see him for awhile.

An Oregon State Police trooper at 1:10 p.m. stopped a Toyota Tacoma for speeding on Westgate Drive, Pendleton. The driver. Amanda Renee Carper, 29, of Wallowa, said she was in a hurry for a meeting with her husband, an inmate at the jail. But Carper did not have a driver’s license, according to the report from state police, and a second trooper arrived and said he saw her shove something under her seat before she stopped.

The first trooper asked Carper to step out of the SUV and saw her try to hide a methamphetamine pipe. State police reported she told troopers where to find more meth in the vehicle.

The trooper arrested Carper and booked her into the jail for possession of meth.

•The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office reported making an arrest at the Stafford Hansell Government Center, 915 S.E. Columbia Drive, Hermiston, after a man and woman fought in the lobby. The sheriff’s office did not provide arrest information.

•Milton-Freewater police arrested Gerardo Rubio, 32, of Milton-Freewater, for second-degree assault, coercion, attempted unlawful use of a weapon, menacing, second-degree criminal mischief, and two counts of first-degree burglary.

Public safety log for Friday, Aug. 26, 2016

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8:47 a.m. - Two large dogs were at large on Southwest Dorion Avenue and Fourth Street, Pendleton, and one chased a motorcyclist, almost causing a crash. Police did not find the dogs.

9:09 a.m. - A man told Stanfield police he bought a car from a woman in Stanfield, and now the car won’t run and she won’t refund his money.

10:50 a.m. - A 9-1-1 caller reported an explosion and fire behind Sunridge Middle School, 700 S.W. Runnion Ave., Pendleton. Pendleton police and fire responded but found no blaze out of control. The source of the call may have been a dust devil passing through an agriculture burn.

12:20 p.m. - A caller on Sagebrush Road, Hermiston, reported he argued with his father, who then pulled a pocket knife on him. The caller said he, his girlfriend and their 2 1/2-year-old daughter went to a bedroom.

12:43 p.m. - A Pendleton grandmother reported her grandson took all of his belongings and ran away.

1:42 p.m. - Pendleton’s code enforcement officer looked into low-hanging tree limbs and brush obstructing sidewalks and views in the area of Southwest 44th Street and Perkins Avenue.

6:13 p.m. - Two vehicles crashed into each other on Stateline Road near Milton-Freewater. The crash, though, seemed to be in Washington.

4:54 p.m. - A man reported he and his wife were walking Oxbow Trail No. 2 on West Elm Extension and Northwest 11th Street, Hermiston, when they spotted a cougar. The big cat was about 50 yards away, they said, and walked down the embankment and into the brush toward the creek.

The sighting was at about 11:30 a.m., they said.

5:19 p.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man making threats against a woman in the Hermiston area. The caller expressed concern for the woman and her children and asked for a deputy to make sure they were OK.

5:32 p.m. - A Pendleton caller reported a truck dumped fertilizer in the area of the empty lot at South Main Street and Southeast Kirk Avenue, Pendleton.

7:52 p.m. - Pendleton police received a 9-1-1 report of an intoxicated motorcyclist “flipping people off” in the area of Southwest Emigrant Avenue and 15th Street.

8:48 p.m. - A man told law enforcement his son found a .38 Ruger pistol with three “clips” in the wall of an outbuilding on Northeast 37th Street, Pendleton.

8:52 p.m. - A man called 9-1-1 after he fell over an embankment on Airport Road, Pendleton, losing “everything he owns.” He reported he was on the road and about 500 yards from the airport building and did not know what to do.

•Pendleton police arrested Amanda Maurissa Anderson Waine, 32, of Pendleton, for fourth-degree assault and attempt to flee police. Police responded to a late night report of a domestic dispute that resulted in a slow car chase that ended when officers were able to box in Waine and break a window of her vehicle to take her into custody.

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