(Salem Reporter/Amanda Loman) An Ontario man faces charges alleging he robbed three people over the past four months in northeast Salem. Dustan Allen Burris, 33, was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree robbery and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon in Marion County Circuit Court, according to[Read More…]

A vehicle flipped over after its driver eluded Ontario police on Saturday, March 12. The vehicle crashed into a van before shearing a power pole. (Mara Kirby Garcia photo) ONTARIO – A vehicle fleeing police crashed with a private van near downtown Ontario Saturday afternoon, sheared off a utility pole[Read More…]

Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles are jumbled in one of a series of collisions on Interstate 84 westbound on Monday, Feb. 21. The freeway remained closed westbound in Ontario. (Oregon Department of Transportation) UPDATE: The Transportation Department announced just after 7 a.m. Tuesday that the westbound Interstate 84 was again[Read More…]

Annita Harmon hugs her daughter in this photo provided by the family. (Contributed photo) VALE – Anthony Montwheeler sat in clean street clothes with a fresh haircut and stared straight ahead Friday morning as more than a dozen people delivered statements at his sentencing at the Malheur County Courthouse. The[Read More…]

Anthony Montwheeler, accused of killing an ex-wife and a Vale resident pleaded guilty to three charges Friday. (The Enterprise/File) VALE – A Nampa man accused of killing an ex-wife and a Vale resident more than four years ago pleaded guilty to a series of charges Friday in Malheur County Circuit[Read More…]

Malheur County District Attorney Dave Goldthorpe (left) chats with his chief deputy, Brendon Alexander, in Vale. Goldthorpe believes any changes to Measure 11 will make communities less safe. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – Malheur County District Attorney Dave Goldthorpe believes a change to Oregon’s Measure 11 minimum sentencing law is[Read More…]

Carlos Alberto Berrios Jr., a former Ontario man, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday. (The Enterprise/File). EUGENE – A former Ontario man will spend 10 years in prison on a drug charge after he was sentenced in a federal court Tuesday. Carlos Alberto Berrios Jr., 30, was[Read More…]

Kenneth Kerpa III. ONTARIO – The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday night for assaulting and severely injuring the child. Kenneth Kerpa III, 20, was charged with first-degree assault, third-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment – all felonies. He was lodged in the Malheur County Jail after he[Read More…]