Date: 11/02/2012 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Marion County sheriff’s deputies have arrested an eighth-grader at a Salem middle school after finding the 13-year-old boy had a loaded BB gun that looked like a semi-automatic pistol in his waistband. Sheriff’s spokesman Don Thomson said the boy was arrested yesterday for investigation of disorderly conduct, cited and released to his parents.
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – A grand jury has indicted a 23-year-old Pendleton man on charges of second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and drunken driving in a September 2011 crash that killed the man’s passenger. The East Oregonian reports that Brock Adam Mecham’s SUV drifted off Highway 11 about five miles north of Pendleton, climbed a steep embankment and rolled multiple times in a wheat field. Twenty-five-year-old Abel Joseph Trejo of Pendleton was killed.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Narcotics agents who served search warrants at five locations in Oregon’s Lane and Douglas counties say they seized 52 pounds of crystal methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $1 million. Oregon State Police Sgt. Erik Fisher tells The Register-Guard that the four men arrested are not legal U.S. residents. Fisher commands Lane County’s interagency narcotics enforcement team. Search warrants were served Sunday at locations in Cottage Grove, Springfield, Eugene and Roseburg.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A man accused of selling Portland-area cemetery plots that weren’t really for sale and pocketing the money has been indicted on a charge of aggravated theft. Washington County, Ore., sheriff’s Sgt. Vance Stimler says 53-year-old Michael Robert Swartz is accused of selling people plots that had already been sold. At the time, in 2009, Swartz worked as a sales director at the Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary and Memorial Park. His next court date is scheduled for Nov. 13.
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