Baker City Herald · Huntington, OR
BOISE — Police believe Adam Hunter Harmel, the 39-year-old Huntington man arrested Nov. 1 and accused of bringing a 15-year-old Utah girl to Oregon in May 2025 with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, has tried to abduct at least one other minor. In a memo filed Nov. 9 in U.S. District Court in Utah, U.S. Attorney Melissa Holyoak and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jawayria Z. Auchter wrote that “there is evidence that Defendant attempted to abduct at least one other minor. This evidence has led law enforcement to request information from victims nationwide.” The memo doesn’t say when, or where, the second alleged abduction happened. A federal grand jury on Nov. 10 indicted Harmel on one count of “transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.” The memo prosecutors filed Nov.
Baker City Herald · Baker City, OR
Nearby: Baker City, ORPOLICE LOG Baker City Police Arrests, citations SECOND-DEGREE THEFT, SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL TRESPASSING: Kyle Andrew Waldron, 41, Baker City, 5:05 a.m. Nov. 12 in the 3500 block of Pocahontas Road; cited and released. Accident reports Nov. 12, 7:49 p.m. in the 200 block of Campbell Street; accident with property damage.
Baker City Herald · Baker City, OR
Nearby: Baker City, ORBAKER CITY — A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for Jonathon Russell Romine, the 45-year-old Baker City man tased twice by Baker City Police after he fled from officers and resisted arrest on Oct. 25. Judge Matt Shirtcliff in Baker County Circuit Court signed an order on Tuesday, Nov. 10, for a mental health consultation for Romine, who has been in the Baker County Jail since his arrest. His bail is $200,000. A day earlier, on Nov. 9, Romine’s court-appointed attorney, Kyra Rohner, submitted a notice to the court stating that she was not sure Romine was mentally able to proceed in the criminal case. Romine had been scheduled to enter a plea to several charges on Nov. 16, but Shirtcliff canceled that and instead scheduled a hearing, to consider Romine’s mental condition, on Nov. 23 at 9 a.m. Baker City Police arrested Romine about 2:35 p.m. on Oct. 25 near Albertsons grocery on Campbell Street.
Baker City Herald · Baker City, OR
Nearby: Baker City, ORBAKER CITY — A Baker City man accused of hitting a letter carrier in the head with the stock of a BB gun in Baker City nearly two years ago has pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a federal employee using a dangerous weapon. Randy Warren Kahn, 50, has been in federal custody since he was arrested in December 2024. Kahn, who initially pursued an insanity defense but earlier this year withdrew that defense, was in a federal mental health treatment center in Missouri for several months in 2025 and 2026. Kahn pleaded guilty on Oct. 21, according to federal court records. He has not been sentenced, according to records. The maximum sentence is 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000, according to the plea agreement. Kahn admitted that on Dec. 14, 2024, in south Baker City he fired a shot from a BB gun when mail carrier Junya Uemura was delivering packages to Kahn’s home.