Search for man leads to key area arrest
By ARGUS OBSERVER and Associated Press REPORTS
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:46 AM PST
NYSSA — A search for an unwanted subject led to an arrest by Malheur County Sheriff’s Office deputies of a Nyssa man on multiple charges, including possession of five pounds of marijuana, Monday.
The sheriff’s office received a call at 12:37 p.m. of an unwanted subject in the Nyssa area who apparently went to his ex-mother-in-law’s house in the 400 block of Columbia Avenue and threatened her, Undersheriff Brian Wolfe said.
Sheriff’s deputies sent out an attempt to locate report on Matthew Cleaver, 36, Nyssa, and he was later discovered by the Nyssa Police Department and stopped. Later, deputies contacted Cleaver, who was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing, menacing and unlawful possession of a controlled subject — five pounds of marijuana.
“That’s quite a bit,” Wolfe said.
He said Nyssa officers originally discovered the marijuana after smelling it.
In other Oregon public safety news, Tillamook County District Attorney William Porter says two Tillamook County sheriff’s deputies were justified in shooting a 68-year-old man who advanced on them with a raised hatchet.
Porter said Monday the case won’t go to a grand jury.
The sheriff’s office said that deputies got a disturbance call on Oct. 23 and found a man breaking into a mobile home.
Porter identified the man as Michael Elmo Shepherd and said the deputies shot him after he refused commands to stop and continued toward them.
In Woodburn, just south of Portland, a 28-year-old Portland man described as unhappy about police response time to his 911 call walked onto Interstate 5 near Woodburn in an apparent attempt to get assistance more quickly.
No one was injured Monday but Marion County sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Nicoloff says a tractor-trailer rig was forced to lock up its brakes to avoid hitting Joseph Fruichantie and several other vehicles had to take action to avoid hitting either the man or other cars.
Sheriff’s Lt. Sheila Lorance says the deputy was traveling south on I-5 and saw the whole thing. The man was arrested for investigation of disorderly conduct.
Lorance says the intoxicated man told officers a friend he was riding with had kicked him out of the vehicle. Fruichantie called 911 and asked police to help him, but wasn’t happy about how long it was taking for an officer to arrive.
Meanwhile, in the Gem State, a Meridian man has pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding creditors and a court-appointed trustee during his 2004 bankruptcy case.
Reed J. Bowen Jr., 50, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Boise to one count of bankruptcy fraud. Bowen was accused of failing to disclose a real estate contract granting him an exclusive right to buy his Meridian home at a fixed price. He initially stated he only had a lease on the house.
Prosecutors say Bowen then bought the home after settling his bankruptcy case. They also say he inflated the mortgages on a cabin he owned in McCall, and consequently misled the court about his equity in the property. Sentencing is set for Jan. 19, 2010. He faces a maximum of five years in prison and fines up to $250,000.
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