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Grand jury: Deputies justified in S. Ore. shooting

The Columbian
Published: August 26, 2010, 12:00am

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A grand jury has ruled that two Jackson County sheriff’s deputies were justified in shooting an armed man at a marijuana garden near Medford earlier this month.

The Jackson County district attorney’s office also released more details about the shooting death of 20-year-old Itali Arellana-Vargas of Mexico.

Prosecutors told the Mail Tribune newspaper that Arellana-Vargas was hit by two of six bullets fired from .223-caliber tactical police rifles, a standard weapon carried by all members of Jackson County’s SWAT team.

Arellana-Vargas was killed in an August 11 raid at a pot garden on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.

Prosecutors declined to name the two deputies, saying the sheriff’s office wanted to protect them from the possibility of reprisal because the marijuana operation was linked to a Mexican drug cartel.

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Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/

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