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Show A-6 Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 16-18, 2019 The Park Record Chief: Slain officer ‘selfless’ County retires its dummy Associated Press OREM — A Provo police officer fatally shot during an encounter with a wanted man had “selflessly sacrificed his life to protect the lives of his fellow officers,” the city’s police chief said Saturday during the officer’s funeral. Police have released few specifics of what happened the night of Jan. 5 when Master Officer Joseph Shinners was killed. But Police Chief Richard Ferguson told law enforcement officers, family members and others attending the service for Shinners that Shinners saw another officer in danger and took action. “In the course of trying to take the individual into custody, Officer Shinners saw one of his fellow officers in peril,” Ferguson said. “Without reservation,” he “placed himself in a position of danger in an attempt to aid another officer.” Addressing himself to Shinners, Ferguson said he was proud of the officer and that his actions to fight the suspect and shoot him “ended the threat to the other officers.” The 29-year-old Shinners is survived by his wife and their 1-year-old son. His service was held at Utah Valley University’s event center in Orem. Hundreds of officers stood at attention and saluted Shinners’ flag-draped casket as it was led by bagpipes into the university arena, and flags and signs lined the streets of Utah County before the service. During the service, brother-inlaw Kyle Swanson said Shinners loved taking care of others, never hesitated to help those around him and “served his family, his friends and his community.” Shinners’ widow, Kaylyn, said her husband at home was a man who loved clean sheets, feared nothing except snakes, came home late because he was talking to someone and ended arguments with her by spouting nonsensical phrases. “He is my companion and partner for eternity, and I look forward to being reunited with him,” she said. Shinners was a three-year member of the Provo police force when fatally shot in a shopping center parking lot Orem, which is next door to Provo. Police have accused 40-yearold Matt Frank Hoover, who was wanted on two drug-related felony warrants and had reportedly threatened law enforcement, of shooting Shinners. According to police, Shinners managed to return fire after he was shot and struck the suspect at least once. Hoover was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder and drug and weapons crimes and was hospitalized with a gunshot wound not immediately charged. Court records don’t list an attorney for Hoover who could comment on the allegation. Police said Hoover had a lengthy criminal record. Records show Hoover has pleaded guilty to several drug-related crimes, theft and forgery dating back to 1995. Ozarks home to polygamists Associated Press HUMANSVILLE, Mo. – For members of a polygamous community of about 400 people in rural Missouri, their enclave has always been the promised land. Known as “The Ranch” to its residents and as “The Compound” to people in neighboring towns, the group still practices plural marriage 35 years after it was established on a 600-acre property between the towns of Humansville and Stockton in southwest Missouri, according to a report by The Salt Lake Tribune in collaboration with The Guardian that shined a new spotlight on the little-known community. Founder Steven Laub was living in southwest Utah in November 1983 when he said he heard a voice and was called up a mountain where the Lord told him to go to Missouri and buy a ranch, according to an oral history made by community members and recorded on a CD shared with the Tribune. Dirt roads wind through clusters of trees and homes in the community built on one of the Ozark Mountains’ plateaus. Its residents, who share a common belief in plural marriage, include people from at least three polygamous sects as well as some with fundamentalist Mormon beliefs who do not affiliate with a church. “Missouri is the promised land,” said Sean Anderson, a 51-year-old fundamentalist Mormon from Mexico who has also lived in Arizona and Utah. He had two wives for a time, but those marriages dissolved. He moved to The Ranch in the fall with his current wife and six children. Missouri has played an outsized historical role in the religion. Latter-day Saints began arriving in 1831, the year its founder Joseph Smith had a prophecy that Zion was in eastern Missouri’s Jackson County and that Jesus would return there one day. But his followers had conflicts with other Missouri settlers. In 1838, at least 17 Latter-day Saints were massacred at a place called Haun’s Mill. Church members soon began fleeing the state. The newspaper’s review of Missouri marriage license showed most residents in the polygamous community marry in their 20s, although some have married as young as 17. Typically, the husband has one legal wife and subsequent marriages are ordained in a religious service with no license on file with a county clerk. In Missouri, someone can be convicted of bigamy if a married person “purports” to marry another person. The offense is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. In Utah, polygamy is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or 15 years if it’s committed in conjunction with fraud or a violent offense. Cedar County Prosecutor Ty Gaither said he has received no complaints about crimes at the community. He said if he had three parties who were consenting adults, he wouldn’t have a complaining witness. ‘Deputy Dolittle’ did a lot to deter speeders SEAN P. MEANS Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY — There’s a job opening at the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, one where being a dummy is an advantage. Law enforcement officers in the south-central Utah county, which includes the north entrance to Capitol Reef National Park, are looking for a new mannequin to Continued from A-5 IOC probe casts pall Takeda could join a growing list of suspended IOC members, and honorary members, who are linked to corruption probes. His case could potentially tarnish the Tokyo Olympics, which open in 18 months. Bach has called Tokyo’s preparations “the best ever,” though there are concerns about rising costs with the price tag to prepare the games at about $20 billion. That’s three times what Tokyo bidders said it would cost when they were awarded the Olympics. “The Tokyo Olympics Face a Black Cloud,” was Saturday’s headline in the popular daily Nikkan Sports. Takeda has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday in Tokyo to address an investigation that has been going on for several years. “The case is causing tremendous concern among the people who are supporting the Tokyo Games,” Takeda said. “But I will continue to cooperate in the investigation in order to clear any suspicion of me.” Two of Japan’s three major newspapers — Mainichi and Asahi — put the story on Saturday’s front page. It was the top story place in the police cruiser that the sheriff’s office parks at strategic spots to deter speeders. The old mannequin, dubbed “Deputy Parker Bogus Dolittle,” was originally procured by the former sheriff, Kurt Taylor, according to Deputy Micah Gulley. The new sheriff, Dan Jensen, was sworn in early this month, and when Taylor left office, he took Dolittle with him, Gulley said. Gulley said a few people have called in, or posted on social media, wondering if the mannequin was stolen. Dolittle served for 16 years on Wayne County’s highways and byways. The mannequin was the creation of Monica Bryan, a Loa seamstress and artist who worked at Capitol Reef. Dolittle freed up the county’s tiny sheriff’s office, which has only six full-time deputies, to do other police work. The cruiser is a familiar sight to visitors driving down State Road 24, coming into Torrey. But Gulley said deputies move the cruiser to make drivers, mostly tourists, think twice about speeding. “We take it from place to place wherever there is heavy traffic,” Gulley said. The cruiser is still in use without the mannequin, Gulley said. The sheriff’s office aims to get a new mannequin soon. for Mainichi, and Asahi placed the Olympic story just under the ongoing detention of Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn. In Asahi, next to a photograph of Takeda, a headline read: “French preliminary hearing judge suspects bribery in Olympic bidding.” Ghosn is a Brazilian-born Frenchman, and several papers suggested that France could be getting even for Japan’s treatment of Ghosn. “France Retaliates for Ghosn Case?” said a headline in the magazine Aera, which is published by Asahi. The Tokyo Shimbun ran with the strongest headline: “Tokyo Olympics in Shock and Turmoil.” “Impossible. Why now?” the newspaper headline asked, quoting unnamed 2020 Tokyo Olympic officials. The paper said “shock ran through people working on the Tokyo Olympics. With about 500 days to go before the games open, those involved are perplexed and flabbergasted.” The IOC ethics commission was to have met Friday, but the IOC did not say what action it had taken. It could suspend Takeda or ask him to step aside during the investigation. Or do nothing. Three IOC members are now suspended: Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait, Patrick Hickey of Ireland, and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia. Honorary member Carlos Nuzman of Brazil, who headed the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, is also suspended in a similar vote-buying investigation. The preliminary charge against Takeda announced by the Nation- al Financial Prosecutors office was first reported on Friday by French newspaper Le Monde. The preliminary charge means the investigating magistrate has determined there are serious grounds for suspicion. But no decision has been made on prosecution. Le Monde said French authorities suspect the IOC vote for Tokyo in 2013 was swayed by secret deals that secured the backing of IOC members from Africa. Le Monde reported French investigators suspect Takeda of authorizing the payment of $2 million in bribes made on either side of the IOC vote in September 2013 to a Singapore company, Black Tidings. French prosecutors have linked Black Tidings to Papa Massata Diack, one of the sons of Lamine Diack, who presided over the IAAF from 1999 to 2015. Lamine Diack, who had huge influence on African voters in Olympic contests, is under investigation in France on corruption-related charges and allegations that he, his son and others were involved in blackmailing athletes and covering up failed drug tests. The 85-year-old Diack has had to turn in his passport and is not allowed to leave the country. His son is believed to be in Senegal. Takeda was leading Tokyo’s second straight bid for the Summer Games. 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