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Commentary: Law enforcement protects rights of all

  • Lane Magill, Wasco County Sheriff
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Dear Citizens: Years and years ago The Dalles Chronicle presented articles to the citizens titled, “Know Your Sheriff.” After becoming sheriff I decided to revive this decades old column. However, I ran into the age-old dilemma of having too many subjects and soon became overwhelmed with possibilities — until immigration came to the forefront!

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Court: Police had right to search Beaverton home

  • NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press
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PORTLAND — The Oregon Court of Appeals says that officers had enough cause — a spike in electric bills and observation of comings and goings — to get a warrant to search a home suspected of being an illegal pot growing site.

Some Washington police dogs not smelling pot anymore
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Some Washington police dogs not smelling pot anymore

  • MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press
  • Updated

Pot legalization affects canines BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — When Dusty, a 19-month-old black Labrador, walked past a pipe full of marijuana during a recent police search of a house, he was doing exactly what his handler hoped.