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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.
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