Date: 12/11/2012 04:03 AM
OR–1st NewsMinute/360
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – A 22-year-old former college student from Peru has been sentenced to at least 50 years in prison for killing his year-old son and the baby’s 19-year-old mother in 2011. Gustavo Martinez-Aquepucho was sentenced yesterday in Benton County Circuit Court in Corvallis to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years. He pleaded guilty in September to two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his son, Theo, and 19-year-old Kelsey Baker.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say an off-duty Salem police officer was reported in critical condition after his wife, suspecting he had a relationship with another woman, hit him with a pickup. The Oregon State Police say 47-year-old Shirley Teresa Nunez is accused of attempted murder and other charges. The police said they investigated a report early yesterday that Nunez opened a sliding glass door of the other woman’s home and pointed a gun at her briefly before leaving in a Ford F-150. Police say that minutes later 48-year-old Kenneth M. Nunez was walking in front of his home when he was struck.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say two Richland, Wash., residents were cited after police found 10 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of their rental car during a southern Oregon traffic stop. The Oregonian reports that Bonnie Gay Clark and Richard Michael Butherus were stopped Sunday afternoon near Klamath Falls in a car with California license plates. The two were cited for unlawful possession and distribution of marijuana.
SEATTLE (AP) – A judge in Seattle has found probable cause to hold a 30-year-old Beaverton, Ore., man arrested after a weekend bank robbery. Police say a man robbed a Wells Fargo Bank branch in north Seattle on Saturday, wearing what appeared to be an explosive device strapped to his body. He led officers on a chase north into Snohomish County, where he crashed a car near the Edmonds ferry dock. The man was arrested after a brief standoff. Jeffrey Trask was being held at a King County Jail on $750,000 bail.
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