PORTLAND â A Pendleton man is the latest offender to receive a federal court sentence for poaching bull trout.
Tyler Glenn Chance Warren, 31, is serving three years of federal probation and a three-year fishing ban after illegally taking bull trout from the Metolius River in the Deschutes National Forest.
The U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the District of Oregon on Wednesday, July 14, announced Warrenâs sentencing in a press release, which also includes a $1,000 fine and 40 hours of community service.
Warren is the fourth Oregon resident convicted in federal court for illegally taking bull trout from area waters since Operation No Bull, a coordinated anti-poaching law enforcement operation, launched in 2017. The operation has resulted in criminal charges, civil penalties or citations for more 30 bull trout poachers in federal, state and tribal courts.
HERMISTON â Two new faces will be joining the Hermiston Board of Education and two incumbents kept their seats in the May 18 election.
According to results posted by the Umatilla County Elections Division after 10 p.m. on May 18, incumbent Brent Pitney was defeated by Sally Anderson Hansell.
Pitney, who works for Knerr Construction, was appointed to the board in 2018. He garnered 36.7% of the 2,843 votes cast. Anderson Hansell, an attorney at Anderson Hansell PC, received 63%.
She described herself as âdeeply humbledâ by the results, and said she looks forward to learning more about what is going on in Hermiston schools.
âI think the election tells me that the community is looking forward to more and better communication from the board and administrators, as well as enhanced transparency as far as decisions go, and the reasons for those decisions,â she said.