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News bites for Jan. 19

JOEL MARTIN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 3 months AGO
by JOEL MARTIN
Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | January 18, 2024 6:12 PM

OTHELLO — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a burglary suspect, according to a statement from the ACSO.

Joshua Joseph Gutierrez, 28, is wanted on suspicion of residential burglary and first-degree theft, according to the statement. 

Adams County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Isaac Isaías Fuentes-Gomez on the same charges on Tuesday, according to the statement. Deputies also executed a search warrant in the 900 block of East Sagewood Street in Othello, where multiple confirmed stolen items were recovered. The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information about Gutierrez’s whereabouts is asked to contact the ACSO. Tipsters can remain anonymous.


EPHRATA — Although lakes in the Columbia Basin may be frozen over, the ice isn’t safe to walk on, according to an announcement from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

It can be very difficult to tell how thick the ice is simply by looking, the GCSO wrote. Anyone falling through will quickly go into hypothermia, and first responders may not arrive in time. 

People walking dogs near an ice-covered lake are urged to keep them on a leash, as some people have fallen in while trying to rescue a dog that has broken through the ice.

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