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Show Page 14 Thursday. August 4, 2005 Police SELECTED INCIDENTS AS COMPILED BY STAFF Woman pleads no contest to manslaughter charges Cathy Allred l our yciirs after Mina I'ajc-la's I'ajc-la's mysterious murder. Kern I ae Brown of Mesa. An , pleaded no contest in tth District Dis-trict Court to shooting and killing kill-ing her former employer 1 he 1 5-year-old Arizona woman pleaded no contest Monday to a reduced manslaughter man-slaughter count, under the stipulation stip-ulation she can leave the state to take care of some custody issues Ix'fore sentem ing According to prose utors. on April 2f). 2U0I. lirown hid in Kije-la's Kije-la's car parked in her garage and then fired a single round from her fxiyfnend's (Kilice revolver into the head of" I lie victim. Brown, who just davs Ix-fore the sho)ting had given hitlh to a hahy girl, returned the following day and attempted to disjjose of Ihelxxlv Alter driving Pajeln's Honda Accord containing the Ixxlv in the I ra-ternal ra-ternal Order of l.aglcs parking lot in Pleasant drove, Brown attempted unsuccessfully to set the car on fire American Fork TRESPASSING - A 38 year old man was arrested for trespassing after officers responded to a report of a man wtio had heeri living in a home that was under construction. RETAIL THEFT A 28 year old man was cited for retail theft after he attempted to take a stmt from a l(X:al business CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE PROBLEM - A ?'j year old man was arrested for possession of marl juana and possession of drug para phernalia Officers responded to a local hotel after ttie clerk called to roport that she suspected the man to ho using marijuana RETAIL THEFT - An 18 year old man was cited for retail theft after he attempted to take candy from .1 local husiness. 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Cti'i t rttrrKp Ap;jfv oriir'iH Media Coda: 44 too Code 01 7 T or t.ii 765-7300, tt 424 titrr As part of the plea deal, Brown also pleaded no contest to a second-degree felony theft hv deception charge. IVeviouslv employed as an administrative assistant at Pajela's Mira Vista retirement home. Brown had. over a nine-month nine-month HTiod, embezzled nearly $.'i.r.0(X) I riends of the victim later told investigators and prosecutors that Pajela had discovered dis-covered Brown's betrayal just prior to her death. lYoser utors also said they hoje to learn in the sentencing pro ess whether anyone else assisted Brown in the murder or the subsequent attempt to destroy the evidence. "It's hard to say whether she acted alone, but she had to have help of some kind," said Sherry Kagan. chief deputy criminal persecutor with the Utah County Coun-ty Allot ney's Office. I hough Brown's boyfriend Matthew Misino. believed to I' a xilice officer on Arizona tribal lands, has been cooperative coopera-tive with investigators, Ragan said he still may be a suspect in the case CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - A 17 year old boy and a 19 year-old man were arrested for criminal mischief. They had vandalized an apartment building they had been living in. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - A 44 year old woman was arrested for criminal mischief. She turned herself into the police after she had thrown a rock through a local business front window The woman stated that she had ust started to work at the business and became upset with her boss. ALCOHOL PROBLEM - A 42 year old man was cited for open container aflnr officers received a call that the man was intoxicated. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - A 17 year old boy was arrested for criminal crimi-nal mischief and assault after he got into an argument with his mother. 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The officers found that the suspects were 6 and 7 years old. Their parents were contacted and they found a resolution. THEFT A Honda pocket bike was reported stolen from a garage. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - Officers responded to a report of criminal mischief where a window of a residence resi-dence under construction had been broken out. THEFT - Officers are investigating a report of a theft where the victim's information had been used to obtain a utility account. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - Officers responded to a report of criminal mischief where lawn and garden items had been damaged when a vehicle drove up onto the victim's property. Eagle Mountain RECKLESS BURNING - Two juveniles started a brush fire in the Ranches near Timpview Drive on July 27. The youths were playing with a cigarette lighter, lighting weeds on fire. Fire crews from Eagle Mountain, Saraloga Springs, Cedar Fort and the Bureau of Land Management responded to the fire. Because of a quick and aggressive response, firefighters were able to put out the fire with only about an acre burned. ELECTRICAL FIRE - A downed electrical power line caused a grass fire near 4000 North between Eagle Mountain and Cedar Fort on July 24 at about 1:30 p.m. A severe thunderstorm thun-derstorm and accompanying high winds may have caused the problem. prob-lem. Firefighters from Cedar Fort and Eagle Mountain responded to the blaze and waited for crews from Utah Power and Light to turn off power so they could proceed into the area. The fire burned approxi- LJ Want Sale in Orem WANT to purchase min erals and other oilgas interestes. Send detail to: P.O. Box 13557. Denver CO 80201 hri tow"- fcj uy LEHI lownhouse 2 bed. - 1 12 bath. WD hkup 94 Acura ln,e9ra Grt cntrl air S550'mo. 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DRUNK DRIVER - Officer Steve Norman stopped a 37-year-old man early Sunday morning at 600 S. Orem Blvd. in the car he was driving. driv-ing. It was suspected that he was drunk. He was. He was arrested and a search of his car turned up a bundle of cocaine and some drug paraphernalia. He was booked into the Utah County Jail. BURGLARY - A woman walked out into her garage Thursday morning and found a strange man standing in her garage holding a tool box. He ran to an older model white SUV, threw the tool box in the back and left the area. It was discovered that he had stolen several tools from the garage. The suspect was described as a white male, 6 feet tall, slender and wearing wear-ing a gray beanie cap, yellow shirt, and shorts. The home was in the area of 200 West and 1900 North. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY - A woman heard a noise late Thursday night and went to investigate. She went into her bathroom and found a man trying to pry off the window screen. She screamed and the suspect sus-pect ran away. She only got a look at his fingers wrapped around the edge of the screen. This was in the area of 200 East and 200 North. Pleasant Grove ASSAULT - Officers responded to Wal-Mart in Lindon for an assault. The suspect fled the scene in a white Outback wagon, unknown plate. ASSAULT - A father tried to get his stepson to clean his room. The stepson refused. A short altercation began. The son pushed his father and his father backhanded him to get him away. Neither party wanted to pursue any charges. The father was advised to call if he has any further fur-ther problems. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF - Report of heavy equipment driving over and damaging a pipe and head gate on a ditch. Complainant does not know who the owner of the tractor is. Damage appears unintentional. THEFT A Big Bubbas rock crusher on a red trailer was reported taken from a business. THEFT A Mantis farm tiller was reported taken from the garage at a residence. The complaintant said the garage door was open for a while and she suspects the tiller was taken at this time. THEFT A computer was reported taken from a business. A video of the scene was taken into evidence. THEFT Several electrical tools were stolen from a garage attached to a residence. Value is $5,000. Saratoga Springs FATAL ACCIDENT - A three-car three-car collision on SR 68 just north of Harvest Hills resulted in two people being life-flighted to the hospital on July 12. One of the victims later died from injuries. Encourage your children to read a newspaper every day. It can help make their wishes come true." Brandy, recording artist, actress Your Town. Your Neighbors. Your Newspaper. www.heraldextra.com Jsa prosthodontist, I specialize in the beautification, restoration anil replacement of teeth using the latest advances in dental care. U.S. Army learning veterans; t J ft 4.1 nal Aviation battalion in Italy during World War 11. Like many veterans of that era, his training for the military began as a student in a local vocational school. For example, a number of Utah men took airplane engine training at West High School in Salt Lake City, then took work at the newly constructed Hill Air Force Base. Verl also learned the value of his farm experiences to military service. fter graduating from the old Lincoln High , School in Orem, 1 f m- lished a year at BYU, thinking of becoming a mathematics math-ematics teacher. Right after that year, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation started a sheet metal course in Provo. I don't remember how I was contacted, but I enrolled. I built a metal box, like the kind that's now used to tear off Saran Wrap. I was told, "You've got a job." So I moved to Glendale, California, lived in a trailer house behind my cousin Tho-ra's Tho-ra's house, and worked at the Lockheed plant in Burbank. One day I miscued a little bit on building a gas tank, so I told the foreman that I'd made a mistake. "From now on," he told me, "you're going to be the one to put the self -sealing foam inside the gas tanks." It's a sticky material, about three-quarters of an inch thick, sort of like Styrofoam. If a bullet came through the tank, the foam would automatically seal the hole. The gas tanks came to us on an assembly line, and we put the sealing stuff in them. On Dec. 7, 1941, a couple of girls invited two of us over to eat at their house. While we were having something to eat, suddenly, flash! Bang! News came over the radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Like most everybody else, I was horrified that the U.S. could be bombed like that. I tried to get a deferment from Lockheed so I could stay and work rather than go overseas. over-seas. We had filled out draft cards, and when California drafted men, those who were from out of state were drafted first. I was inducted on Aug. 11, 1943 and went into active service at Fort MacArthur, near San Pedro, Pe-dro, California, on Aug. 25. After basic training at Fort MacArthur, we were sent to Kearns, Utah, where we marched in a dust bowl. The dust was so thick, you could hardly see the guy in front of you. If you wanted to find him, you had to touch him. One day we were all lined up, and a cook said to us, "I want somebody who can build fires in these stoves. I can't get no food because nobody knows how to run my stoves." I raised my hand and said, "I'll go fix your stoves for you." I'd been used to starting fires in the old Majestic coal range my mother and dad had on the farm. So I started a fire and kept the cook's fire going while he started cooking. He said to me, "You can go back to the barracks, you are so good at this job." In Madison, Wisconsin, we learned Morse Code (I got so I could do 25 words a minute), and I was put in the 1710 Sig- ft tA KITCHENS DIRECT Professional Designers for Remodeling, D Wouldn 'tyou n Ilk Ml KNOTTY ALDER KITCHEN? Your WHOLESALE PRICE ONLY $1,388.00!!! trntmrrrfnffi mtnlltttuin Editor's note: The following story is the first of a two-part series prepared by Verl Aston, an Orem resident, who served in a U.S. Arrnv Air Corps Sig en Verl Aston nal Aviation Battalion. One day we were asked if anybody knew how to "drive a truck." I thought to myself, "I don't know whether I want to answer that question or not," so I didn't answer it. When the "truck drivers" came back, I asked them, "What did they give you to drive?" They answered, "A wheelbarrow." That was the kind of smart trick the army often used. In Wisconsin, we also did calisthenics in our shorts in minus 30-degree weather. And we learned more about how to handle guns. - Next in Visalia, California, we did more marching and learned more about guns, as well as hand-to-hand combat. While doing ten-mile hikes, the sergeant would say, "Route step!" meaning that we could break the hut, one, two, three, four cadence and just walk. Well, I would go back to my old farm step, which I had done behind the horse cultivator cultiva-tor in the strawberry, onion and tomato rows. I would automatically au-tomatically change step, which rested me during my 4 to 8 hours of cultivating a day. The kid marching with me during our hikes in Visalia tried to imitate me, but he couldn't. At the end of the day, he was so sore in his knees and hips that he could hardly walk, while I seemed to be rested all the time. I Next week: Verl maintains decoding machines in Italy. These excerpts from Orem veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www.orem. org. Sets of questions to pose to veterans, as well as guidelines to recording equipment and techniques, are available for men and women who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War. For copies, phone Don Norton (225-8050) or e-mail him at donnorton(ibyu.edu. 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