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LJSE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT• REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED• 2, 2004 PAGE 3 40 officers from the County Sheriffs office, State Patrol, Granger ;Yakima City and County Task , Yakama Tribal Police, federal Agency, Customs Service, Bureau of Army National Guard of Alcohol, Tobacco and s began pulling 8o,00o marl- from a field in the Satus at the northern edge of to Sheriff Chris Mace, a County deputy and an Oregon Guard pilot, in a Guard at about 2,000 feet, spored earlier in the week during a annual flyover of the entire Local and federal law enforcement agents 80,000 marijuana plants found in a flyover. haven't typically flown the "Mace said. site and torched on Friday. statement, the Sheriffs "We know the number because we field's location as counted them," Mace said. Helicopters area on the Yakama and two trucks were used to lift and inside Klickitat County." haul the plants. last couple of years the Another 51,ooo plants remain; area has been included; this eradication will continue through this week. Estimated street value of 80,000 plants had been up there for a mature marijuana plants is $20 mil- Mace said. He noted that lion, Mace said. responsible for flyovers After the spotting, Mace said he sent certification school," units to check and watch over roads that marijuana plants are until federal agents, primarily from from the air, primarily D.E.A, could arrive to take over. No suspects were apprehended. In believe that the grow area such a vast and remote area, it was not of plants may make this possible to secure a perimeter, Mace busts in state history, said. thousand one hundred'q~ey fled the area," possibly realiz- pulled, trucked to a bum ing they'd been discovered by the low- Contributed photo load a truck with some of flying helicopter, Mace said. It's been the same with some previous busts, he noted. Mace said that although they found abandoned campsites, "it is tough to find evidence to link the operation to anyone." The Sheriff called the growing oper- ation "not really sophisticated," but observed that it obviously involved "a huge amount of manual labor. There was irrigation pipe from [nearby] creeks over horrendous distances." In a sinfilar operation the previous week, Sheriffs deputies along w-ith Bingen-White Salmon police and a regional drug task force eradicated a smaller field in the Nester Peck area, sporing then destroying 1,o29 plants. -- Sam Lowry Recovery of two military jets from the Columbia River near Roosevelt is complete, say representatives from the armed forces and the salvage company that handled cleanup. An investigation will be ongoing for several months into the causes of the July 21 mid-air collision that killed two marine pilots and injured a third, according to Captain Patrick Kerr, Marine Forces Reserve spokesman, "It's been wrapped up effidently, and everybody's back in San Diego," said Kerr of the recovery that involved private and Navy divers working over a period of three weeks. Captain Misty Mazzia of the Oregon Air National Guard con- firmed that John Peterson of NRC Salvage in Portland told her the job was complete. The jets and their pilots, from the Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar near San Diego, were on an annual low-altitude training exercise from the Guard's base in Portland to a bombing range in Boardman when the collision occurred. Peterson, who managed the recov- ery for NRC, called the operation "very successful. We recovered 98 percent of both aircraft. We are only missing the vertical stabilizer from the two-seat F-18 and a few small bat- teries," Peterson said. "For 52,ooo- pound aircraft, that's not bad." Peterson said NRC sent five truck- loads of debris to the San Diego base. Eyewitnesses said they saw one jet strike the wing of the other. One jet crashed largely intact into the river and the other exploded, most of its flaming debris also hitting the river, some of it scaRering over the land. All three pilots ejected, including the two who did not survive. Peterson said that the salvage involved a combination of deep-water divers working from a platform with a crane and Navy divers from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, scouring the shal- lows around Roosevelt Park. A Marine Corps flight surgeon was called in during recovery to handle some human remains, Peterson said. To explain minor environmental effects of the crash, Peterson gave a detailed briefing on Aug. 19 to the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, whose member tribes have treaty fishing rights in the area. "With the initial collision and a huge secondary explosion, most of the fuel was burned. I saw very little oil sheen from the air," during a heli- copter overflight, Peterson said. John Platt, special assistant to CRITFC's executive director, said the tribal commissioners were %ery impressed with the recovery team's thvri.Ub¢lghbal and persistent effort." people were very concerned about the airmen," Platt said; several fishers were there on the day of the crash and hdped recover the pilots. "R is important for tribal members that bodies be recovered," Platt said. "Many members are veterans, and feel strongly when warriors are lost." Yakama Indians held a "Washut" dean.sing ceremony at Roosevelt fol- lowing the briefing, Plait said. Pla~ also said that since fishers lost time in the fishery during the recov- ery effort, CRITFC is working with a Marine Corps judge advocate general (JAG) on potential compensation. woman reports apparent phone scam Wolfe of not too worried because the became suspi- account was defunct. the voice on theThe woman asked Wolfe asked for informa- to confirm account and an account Wolferouting numbers, and said already closed, she'd give Wolfe a PIN code, said she was calling but hung up before she did River Bank, so, Wolfe reported. had applied for a Columbia River Bank Card," both of which confirmed that the informa- quickly knew to be tion requested was not something they'd ever call who called to ask about. had all the infor- Goldendale Police Chief ~about Wolfe's closed Dave Hill said the call was Which was unnerv- an isolated incident, but cially the elderly, to be very wary of phone requests for financial information. Is your family photo album missing a picture? 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