PENDLETON — Criminal charges have been dismissed against Ricky Lane Snodgrass, the U.S. Forest Service employee charged with reckless burning after overseeing a prescribed fire in Grant County in October 2022.
Charges were moved from Grant County Circuit Court to federal court in March 2024.
An evidentiary hearing was scheduled for July 11 and a jury trial was tentatively set to start Nov. 12.
PENDLETON — Lawyers for a Forest Service firefighter charged with reckless burning in Grant County Circuit Court are trying to move the trial to federal court instead.
Attorneys with the Angeli Law Group of Portland filed a motion on March 15 with the Pendleton division of the U.S. District Court for Oregon asking that the case against Forest Service burn boss Ricky Snodgrass be removed from the Grant County jurisdiction and placed in the hands of a federal judge.
Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley arrested Snodgrass on Oct. 19, 2022, while he was supervising a prescribed burn in the Malheur National Forest near Bear Valley. Embers from the planned burn area blew across the Izee-Paulina Highway and charred close to 20 acres of timber and grazing land belonging to an adjacent private ranch before the blaze could be put out.
CANYON CITY — The U.S. Forest Service and a federal union have expressed full support for Ricky Snodgrass, the Forest Service burn boss who was indicted in Grant County earlier
A grand jury in Grant County Circuit Court on Feb. 2 has indicted U.S. Service burn boss Ricky Snodgrass on a misdemeanor count of reckless burning.
Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley arrested Snodgrass on Oct. 19, 2022, on suspicion of reckless burning.
A grand jury in Grant County Circuit Court on Feb. 2 has indicted U.S. Service burn boss Ricky Snodgrass on a misdemeanor count of reckless burning.
Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley arrested Snodgrass on Oct. 19, 2022, on suspicion of reckless burning.