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After moving to California he met and married Kathy McCarthy, they later divorced. He loved collecting antiques and Coca-Cola memorabilia. He loved to travel to Mexico to fish with his best friend Jeff. He will be missed by his family and friends. He was preceded in death by father, Arlo A. Wooley. He Warrant issued for womanaccused of raping teenager By Geoff Liesik Uintah Basin News Servcie An 8th District Court judge has issued a $40,000 arrest warrant war-rant for a Vernal woman accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Rachelle Rivera, 21, was formally for-mally charged in January with rape of a child and aggravated sex abuse of a child, both first-degree felonies, and furnishing tobacco to a minor, a class C misdemeanor. misdemean-or. Judge A. Lynn Payne issued a summons for Rivera at the time; however, Uintah County sheriffs deputies were never able to serve it on her, prompting Payne to issue is-sue the warrant last week at the request of prosecutors. According to a probable cause affidavit filed to obtain the warrant, war-rant, Rivera and the teenage boy were at a Vernal area home watching movies in July. The teen - who knew Rivera through his father - told sheriffs investigators investiga-tors that Rivera put her hand down his pants and touched him. - The boy aid he and Rivera then went outside and sh& provided pro-vided him with a cigarette, which they smoked. "He then told me that after they smoked the cigarettes, Rachelle stated 'let's go have sex on the trampoline,"' Uintah County Sheriffs Detective Rocky Samuels wrote in the affidavit. Samuels said the teen described de-scribed what he and Rivera were wearing during the alleged encounter and described a tattoo on Rivera's stomach and a body piercing. The boy also said Rivera provided him with a condom and a second cigarette after they had sex. The teen said he and Rivera returned to the house and slept together on a sofa bed. He told Samuels that he received a text message from Rivera the following follow-ing day "asking him if they were dating." "(He) told me that he told her 'no' because she was 21 and he was only 13," Samuels wrote in his statement. The detective interviewed Rivera after speaking with the teen and she initially denied have sex with tlje boy, according to court records. When asked to submit to a polygraph examination, examina-tion, Samuels said Rivera started to cry and admitted to having sex with the boy, although her account to the incident differed from that of the alleged victim's on several points. Samuels said Rivera told him the sexual encounter lasted "for about a minute and she couldn't continue because she knew it was wrong." "During the time that I spoke with Rachelle she was upset about the incident and appeared to be remorseful about what had taken place," Samuels wrote. Authoritiesbelieve Riverahas left Utah and may be in Nevada. She faces mandatory prison sentences on the rape of a child and aggravated child sex abuse UBNSF stop nabs suspected dealer By Geoff Liesik Uintah Basin News Servcie A Duchesne man suspected of bringing large quantities of marijuana mari-juana into the Uintah Basin on a weekly basis was arrested late last month after authorities said they found more than a pound of marijuana in his car. Andrew Edgar Ries, 38, was arrested March 29 by members of the Uintah Basin Narcotics Strike Force following a traffic stop west of Duchesne. Duchesne County Sheriffs Sgt. Brandon Adams said he and Duchesne County Sheriffs Deputy Monty Nay received information that Ries was ' r ' "UppIJ j ;,- ! I i " ? -1 ! .'' i IS.;-- ," L,..m , l L is survived by mother, Stella Wooley, Rifle, Colo.; sisters and their husbands, Arloa and Chuck White, RV travelers; Connie and Bill Bankster, RV travelers; and Gwen and Les Wilson Pasco, Wa.; a brother and his wife, Leon and Jennifer Wooley, Rifle, Colo.; former wife, Kathy; daughters, Amanda Marie and Ann Marie; and granddaughter, Haley, all of Los Angeles, Calif. He was honored with a Memorial Me-morial at the Gates Mortuary in Culver City, Calif. He was cremated and his ashes will be returned and buried with his father in Vernal at a later date. erMsgrinfffiafna into the Uintah Basin and selling it. They used a confidential informant to buy drugs from Reis, Adams said, on several occasions. The deputies learned from the informant that Ries would be bringing in another shipment on March 29, Adams said, and initiated a traffic stop with help from strike force agents from the Uintah County Sheriffs Department and Vernal Police Department. While Adams was talking to Reis, Nay's K-9, Max, indicated that there were drugs in the car, the sergeant said. Deputies recovered a Ziploc bag with more than a pound of high-quality marijuana from a soft-sided guitar gui-tar case lying on the backseat of Reis' car, Adams said. "It's a pretty good stop," he said. 'This guy Itbs been bringing in that amount of marijuana probably about every week." Ries has been charged with four counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and one count of possession of a controlled substance. sub-stance. His bail was initially set at $90,000, but was reduced to $10,000 during a court hearing last Monday. Ries posted bond last Tuesday. As a condition of tris release, he must submit to drug testing twice a month. He is due back in court on April 28 to determine whether he will be appointed a public defender or be required to hire his own attorney. Businessman with Vernal ties pleads to $140 million fraud SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An Ogden businessman with ties to the Uintah Basin pleaded guilty last Monday in one of the largest fraud cases ever in Utah. In 3rd District Court, Val Southwick spoke in a steady voice as he answered each of the nine securities-fraud charges against him. Investigators say he swindled more than $ 140 million from at least 800 investors in a Ponzi scheme. Southwick's guilty pleas were part of a deal with the state. He also agreed to work with the Securities and Exchange Commission Com-mission to repay the victims. Judge Robin Reese has set a June 2 hearing to discuss with federal authorities how the repayment re-payment process is unfolding. Southwick faces up to 15 years in prison on each count. In a Ponzi scheme, money from new investors is used to pay earlier investors. Authorities said Southwick, 62, promised high returns on commercial real estate investments. invest-ments. They said he traded on his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to gain investors' trust. Southwick was accused of using us-ing money from investors to pay for his home mortgage, massages, vacations and church tithing. According to court records, in the early 1980s Southwick's real estate deals in Vernal left investors tied up for years trying to get their money back after the market crashed. Then in 1985, Southwick was sued by Greyhound Grey-hound Leasing and Financial Corp. for using funds from a $79 million fraud perpetrated by two of his former Vernal associates. The Salt Lake Tribune said investor Emma Marroguin confronted con-fronted Southwick outside court last week and asked, "How can you sleep at night? ... You will go to hell." She said she lost $400,000, which she was using to help pay her expenses while serving a church mission in Salt Lake City. Marroguin was wearing a name tag that identified her as a Mormon missionary. "I'm cooperating with the SEC. You'll have to direct your questions to them," Southwick said when asked whether he had money to repay investors. USDA anticipates higher Farmers across the Uintah Basin are preparing for the growing season. As they ready for warmer weather farmers are finalizing choices for what crops they plan to harvest this year. According to the Utah Field Office of USDA's National Agricultural Agri-cultural Statistics Service, as of March 1 Utah farm operators intend to plant more acres of all wheat. Spring wheat planting intentions were up, but winter wheat acres planted were down from 2007 growing season. Planting intentions for oats are at the same level as last year. Barley intentions are slightly lower than last year's level. Corn growers intended to plant 70,000 acreas the same as the previous year. All wheat planting intentions were estimated at 150,000 acres, 4,000 acres more than last year. Winterwheatplantingat 130,000 acres is 4 percent lower than the previous year. Spring wheat planting is expected to total 20,000 acres, up 82 percent from 2007. If current grower intentions are realized, Utah farmers will plant 35,000 acres of oats, equal to last year. Barley planting intentions at 37,000 acres, are down 1,000 acres from last year. Planting intentions for dry edible beans are 2,000 acres, an increase of 500 acres from last year. Corn growers nationwide intend to plant 86 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2008, down 8 percent from last year when corn planted area was the largest since 1944. Expected acreage is down from last year in most states as favorable prices for other crops, high input costs for corn and crop rotation considerations con-siderations are motivating some farmers to plant fewer acres to corn. Despite the decrease, corn acreage is expected to remain at historically high levels as the corn price outlook remains strong due in part to the continued expansion expan-sion in ethanol production. All wheat planted area is estimated es-timated at 63.8 million acres, up 6 percent from 2007. The 2008 winter wheat planted area, at 46.8 million acres, is 4 percent above last year and up slightly from the previous estimate. Of this total, about 32.5 million acres are hard red winter, 10.7 million acres are soft red winter and 3.63 million acres are white winter. Area planted to other spring wheat for 2008 is expected to total 14.3 million acres, up 8. percent from 2007. Of this total, about 13.6 million acres are hard red spring wheat. The intended durum planted area for 2008 is 2.63 million acres, up 22 percent KctXct !My$ x i i n i H I i li i Hi LG Scoop $49" after $50 mail-In rebate with 2-yr. service agreement. 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Oats growers intend to plant an estimated 3.42 million acres, down 9 percent from the 3.76 million acres planted in 2007 and the lowest level on record. Most of the decrease in acreage of oats is expected to be in the Great Plains States. Acreage intentions declined in 15 of the 30 estimating states. The largest acreage decline is expected to occur in South Dakota, where growers intend to plant 200,000 acres this year, 130,000 fewer than were planted in 2007. Prospective Pro-spective oat acreage in North Dakota declined 110,000 acres. The largest expected increase in acreage from last year is in California, where an additional 50,000 acres of oats are expected to be sown. Barley growers intend to plant 4.15 million acres for 2008, up 3 percent from last year. If realized, this will be the fourth lowest barley planted acreage on record. 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