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One dead at party shooting in NB NORTH BEND — One man is dead and another in jail facing murder charges after a shooting early Sunday morning at the North Bend Community Center. In a press release, Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said he plans to file a district attorney’s information Monday charging 29-year-old Miguel Alejandro Iniguez with murder in connection with the shooting. Under Oregon law, the accused can be arraigned on a district attorney’s information in lieu of a grand jury
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Office, Oregon State Police, South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team and Coos County Medical Examiner’s Office responded to the scene. After several hours of searching, police arrested Iniguez without incident shortly before 7:30 a.m. at Walmart in Coos Bay. A firearm was found two blocks away from the community center. Iniguez, who also went by the name Alex Miguel Iniguez, is thought to be a resident of California who was visiting friends in the Coos Bay-North Bend area. North Bend police are asking anyone with information to call them at 541756-3161.
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indictment if a preliminary hearing finds probable cause to believe they committed the crime. The chain of events leading to Iniguez’s arrest began sometime before 1:15 a.m., when police took a report of a fight with at least one shot fired at the community center. Officers found one man dead in the center’s back parking lot with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head. The man has yet to be identified. A birthday party was being held in the building at the time of shooting. Along with North Bend police and the district attorney, the Coos Bay Police Department, Coos County Sheriff’s
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Oregon Coast Music Festival begins
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The Bay Area Concert Band performs “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland Saturday in Mingus Park. The band held a free concert in Mingus Park opening the 36th season of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. The band, which was started around 1970, has opened the festival with a free concert every season.
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Hundreds in their lawn chairs, blanket or sitting on the ground listen to the Bay Area Concert Band perform.
COOS BAY — Fire Prevention Week doesn’t arrive until October, but Coos Bay Fire Rescue is not just sitting on its hands until then. On Tuesday night they will be holding a free fire extinguisher class at the new fire station at 450 Elrod Ave. Battalion Chief Dan Crutchfield says they are trying to do a different kind of training each month. “We’re trying to get our prevention program to be more of a year round program,” he said. August will focus on disaster preparedness. This month, though, it is all about the extinguishers. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, the majority of residential fires in the U.S. are kitchen fires. In those cases extinguishers are ideal, but they SEE FIRE | A8
Pot testing labs a budding business BY HILLARY BORRUD The (Bend) Bulletin
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BEND (AP) — Cascadia Labs is nestled amid ornamental fruit trees in a quiet office park on the north end of Bend. In this lab, employees with backgrounds in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries spend their days testing a variety of products with one common ingredient, consumed by thousands of patients across Oregon: medical marijuana. Cascadia Labs co-owner Jeremy Sackett, 32, is just one of the entrepreneurs who has joined Oregon’s medical pot industry, where new regulations aimed at increasing quality and safety have helped spawn businesses headed up by people with backgrounds in science and the legal profession. Sackett worked at biotechnology companies until a year ago, when
to make sure the products people got from a dispensary were safe.”
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he started Cascadia Labs LLC with his wife, Ashley Preece-Sackett, 34. The company now has customers across the state who send samples via a medical courier service. The couple recently opened an office in Portland to receive samples, and Sackett is building a lab in Portland, too. It is a sign of how quickly the medical marijuana landscape is changing in Oregon that Cascadia Labs is expanding at the same time Sackett is helping to draft a law
that would grant the state authority to regulate these labs. New regulations on medical marijuana, passed by the Legislature in 2013 and implemented this year, are supposed to provide patients with safe access to cannabis products. But a state official involved with the program said the lack of regulatory authority over labs in the law prevents the state from ensuring medical pot is safe. Tom Burns, director of pharmacy programs for the Oregon Health
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama can take action to relieve much of the crisis caused by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing the southern U.S. border without waiting for what is likely to be a and lengthy contentious Congressional battle, say two key lawmakers, one Democrat and the other, Republican. At issue is a provision in a 2008 human trafficking law that puts the fate of young immigrants from countries that don’t border the United States in the hands of immigration judges. The Obama administration has expressed some interest in asking Congress to change the law to give the administration more leeway in dealing with the crisis. It can take years for cases to make their way through immigration courts. But Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that wholesale changes by Congress may not be necessary and that Obama has the authority to return the children to their native countries. Since October, more than 57,000 children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala, have crossed the Mexican border without their parents. Obama “has tools in his toolbox” to solve quickly what most officials say has become a humanitarian crisis and to deter more children from coming to the U.S., Rogers said. “We can safely get them home,” Rogers said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He said, “And that’s where the president needs to start. So he needs to re-engage, get folks who are doing administrative work on the border. They need to make sure they send a very clear signal.” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the author of the provision in the human trafficking law, said a change in regulations, not the law, could speed the children’s return. The law already allows the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human
Authority, said that the state’s lack of authority to regulate pot testing labs essentially means that no one is testing the labs that test medical pot. “I think it’s clear that the Legislature wanted to make sure the products people got from a dispensary were safe,” Burns said. “And without being able to assure the testing that is being done is being done by a quality laboratory, I’m just not sure I can assure the product is safe.” “I think it puts patients’ health at risk,” Burns added. Oregon House Bill 3460 legalized and regulated storefronts where people with medical marijuana cards can buy cannabis products. The law requires marijuana sold by retailers to be tested for pesticides, mold and mildew,
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