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Marion County Deputy Arnsmeier Charged With Misconduct

The Deputy had been placed on administrative leave in December.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Marion County District Attorney's Office is filing charges of Official Misconduct against a Marion County Deputy Sheriff.

Specifically, the complaint alleges five counts of Official Misconduct in the First Degree, five counts of Official Misconduct in the Second Degree, and one count of Theft in the third degree. The charges stem from 4 separate incidents.

Oregon Zoo gives grant to Washington State DOC for frog rehabilitation

The frog rehabilitation is part of the Sustainable Prisons Project, a partnership between the Department of Corrections and The Evergreen State College.

(Olympia, WA) - The Department of Corrections received a grant from the Oregon Zoo to rehabilitate an endangered species of frog that lives in the Pacific Northwest. The staff and offenders at Cedar Creek Corrections Center have had a higher success rate at rearing the Oregon spotted frog than zoos and nature centers in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

"It`s a remarkable achievement for a prison to receive a scientific grant," Acting Prisons Director Dan Pacholke said. "It`s good for our staff and offenders, and it`s good for the local ecology."

Robotic Elk Decoy To Help Oregon Troopers Bust Poachers

The primary focus of the Division's WED program is to apprehend nighttime or closed season violators.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Poachers beware!

The big elk you thought you shot just might be a decoy donated by the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust to Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division to combat poaching in Oregon.

Walking the Last Free Mile with Eddy Lepp

Eddy tried claiming medical and religious protections but the arguments were not allowed in Federal Court.

(PISMO BEACH, Calif.) - Today Eddy Lepp called me at about 10:30 a.m. and said they were getting ready to pass through Pismo Beach. I hopped into my car and caught up with them on the freeway and followed them to Lompoc.

There was a traffic jam on the way down and I figured that in Eddy's mind there was probably no big rush as he was on his way to serve a 10 year mandatory sentence in Federal Prison for growing Marijuana.

Oregon (I can`t go home): The Rest of the Story

The song written to spotlight the plight of an Oregon woman serving a life sentence in a Turkish prison remained at number one in 1974 for nine weeks in the NW, and was number 16 on Billboard's national charts.

(SALEM, Ore.) - During the summer of '74, one song took over the airwaves. It was the haunting tale by a local band, in rememberance of a girl from Oregon who was being held in a Turkish prison.

"Oregon (I can't go home)" by Black Hawk County wasn't an official song for our state, but made a large impression on me while growing up here in the 70's. It was beautiful, and really connected myself and my friends to the Oregon we knew and loved.

Jury Acquits Washington Man in Medical Marijuana Case

After nearly two years of relentless accusations and threat of jail time, it is now all a matter of history.

(PORT ORCHARD, Wash.) - A Washington man who being prosecuted for marijuana in spite of the fact that he is a legal, registered medical marijuana patient in Washington, has been acquitted by a jury. His wife was also arrested in the May 2007 raid at their home, and she previously pleaded guilty over pressure from the Kitsap County Prosecutor's Office in Port Orchard.

54-year old Bruce Olson had faced one count of "manufacturing" (growing) marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. The trial lasted a full two weeks

US Drug Czar Mis-Used Marijuana Statistics as Scare Tactics While Arrests Soar, Reports Reveal

The US House of Representatives celebrates the end of alcohol prohibition, while marijuana users are still considered criminals.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The major U.S. government study of drug use shows that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has badly failed to meet its own goals for reducing use of marijuana and other illegal drugs, according to a pair of new reports by George Mason University senior fellow Jon Gettman, Ph.D.

In addition, ONDCP and its chief, "Drug Czar" John Walters, have misused treatment statistics to suggest that marijuana is dangerously addictive when the government's own data suggest that arrest-driven treatment admissions have wasted tax dollars by treating thousands who were not truly drug-dependent. All while the FBI's new tally is the highest marijuana arrest total ever-reported in law enforcement history.

Lebanon Meth Bust Lands Three Behind Bars

Meth continues to be a scourge on our Oregon communities

(LEBANON, Ore.) - Three people were arrested after detectives executed a search warrant for narcotics at 491 Cleveland Street in Lebanon yesterday at about 5:30 PM, according to Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller.

According to authorities, about 1/4 pound of methamphetamine was seized in the raid, with a wholesale street value of $4,000 to $5,000. They say that if broken down in smaller "user" amounts the value would increase to $11,000.

Oregon Man Arrested for Beating 18-Month-Old Boy Inside Bar/Home

Police say they found the boy just in time.

(SPRINGFIELD, Ore. ) - A 24-year-old Springfield, Oregon man is behind bars today after he allegedly beat an 18-month-old boy over the weekend.

Springfield police say Jeffrey Thomas Sprenger was arrested on Wednesday at J.T.’s Place in downtown Springfield, a bar he co-owns, after police found the infant with severe head injuries, which included bruising and lacerations in a backroom of the bar where the child, Sprenger, and the boy's mother were living.

Officers responded to the bar after receiving a tip from the boy’s babysitter.