THURSDAY Borger News-Herald JULY 15, 2021 6 Hutchinson County Sheriff Office incident report Incidents: 911 HANGUP CALL, OPEN LINE 10 BLOCK ADDIMSEL, BORGER 7/13/2021 MISSING PERSON 7/13/2021 200 BLOCK ALIBATES, BORGER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES 100 BLOCK BUFFALO TRAIL, FRITCH 7/13/2021 WELFARE CHECK 7/13/2021 200 BLOCK ARAPAHOE, FRITCH AGENCY ASSIST 500 BLOCK S MAIN, STINNETT 7/13/2021 ASSISTANCE HWY 136, BORGER Arrests: 7/13/2021 SUSPICIOUS PERSON Cory Glenn Cooksey was arrested-sentenced on 100 BLOCK BUFFALO TRL, FRITCH Indecency with a Child Exposure Count 1 and In- decency with a Child Exposure Count 2. 7/13/2021 Rare whooping cranes raised for wild as COVID rules relax NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A year gary Zoo,” Dunn said. “And it had to chick will remain captive for breed- Lightning, Tornado — the only fe- after pandemic precautions all but stay in Calgary because they couldn’t ing, Dunn said. male — and Aurora. halted work to raise the world’s most cross the border” to get it into either Dunn said Audubon and the crane It’s been a good year in the wild, endangered cranes for release into of two U.S.-only flocks. foundation are the only facilities that too — Louisiana’s 68 adults included the wild, the efforts are back in gear. Both a flock based in southwest use costume-rearing as well as hav- a record 24 nesting pairs. Fourteen long-legged, fuzzy Louisiana and one taught to migrate ing mated crane pairs bring up ba- They hatched a record 14 chicks. brown whooping crane chicks — one between Wisconsin and Florida by bies, and this year only Audubon did including two in , and five have more than in 2019 — are following following ultralight aircraft were cre- so. survived into July, said Sara Zimor- their parents or costumed surrogates ated in hopes of mitigating disaster Pandemic prospects were still un- ski, a biologist with the Louisiana in facilities from New Orleans to should anything happen to the origi- certain and vaccines not yet read- Department of and Fisher- Calgary, Canada. nal border-crossing flock, now about ily available in February, when the ies. “We are thrilled to have bounced 500 strong. foundation had to make its decisions, Youngsters that live long enough back in the wake of the pandemic,” The original flock is the only one crane foundation aviculturist Kim to fly get numbers starting with LW said Richard Dunn, assistant curator that can survive without human as- Boardman said in an email. “We ex- and the number assigned at hatching. of the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon sistance to increase its numbers. pect to costume and parent rear again One of Louisiana’s five has been seen Species Survival Center in New Or- Seven chicks hatched this year at in 2022,” she said. flying, and, along with a yearling is leans. the Species Survival Center. Audubon’s keepers do checkups counted in the 70-member flock. If Adult whooping cranes are white Aurora, a male produced there and other tasks the chicks won’t all five become fledglings, that will with black wingtips and red caps, and by artificial insemination, is being appreciate while wearing regular tie a record from 2018. at 5 feet high are the tallest birds in brought up by his mother and “step- clothes, to teach them that humans The Wisconsin-Florida flock num- North America. father,” though his mother is tempo- are to be avoided. bers about 80, with about 120 birds Only about 800 exist, all descen- rarily hospitalized after chipping her When teaching the chicks to hunt in captivity. Seven eggs were taken dants of about 15 that survived hunt- beak on their enclosure’s chain-link and other crane behaviors, they dress from Wisconsin’s flock to be raised ers and habitat loss in a flock that fence. in baggy costumes with the neck of in captivity, at least 14 more hatched migrates between Texas and Alberta, The other six — five hatched from a crane-head hand puppet holding in in the wild and six of those survived Canada. eggs taken from the wild in Wis- one loose, black-tipped “wing.” The through June. Last year, zoos and other places consin and one from an egg bred at puppet demonstrates how to pick up Eggs are collected from early wild where the endangered birds are bred the International Crane Foundation insects from the ground, then passes nests because parents will lay a sec- had to cut staff and reduce or elimi- in Baraboo, Wisconsin — are being the tasty morsels to a chick. ond if the first doesn’t hatch or the nate use of artificial insemination, raised by staffers. Although the chicks will be given chicks die. which requires close work by two or The Milwaukee Zoo is raising one identifying numbers such as L1-21 Collections not only increase the three people, and of having people chick from an egg received from the when they’re released as mottled number of chicks per year but in Wis- in shape-disguising costumes raise crane foundation, and the foundation brown-and-white juveniles late this consin, help keep wild chicks from chicks. and the Calgary Zoo are each raising year, at Audubon they have names: hatching when bloodsucking black “One chick hatched out at the Cal- three chicks. The Milwaukee Zoo’s Blizzard, Fog, Hurricane, Lava, flies are at their worst. Court orders shorter sentence US says order coming this for ‘’ Joe Exotic week on border asylum DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder- restrictions for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — until “a forthcoming public health Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reassessment,” which has yet to be in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying and Prevention will issue an order published. Texas argues in its lawsuit to hire two different men to kill activist . this week about how migrant chil- that the administration’s justification A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in dren are treated under a public health was insufficient. Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated those two convictions sepa- order that has prevented people from Higher COVID-19 vaccination rately in calculating his prison term under sentencing guidelines. seeking asylum at the nation’s bor- rates have brought increasing pres- The blond mullet-wearing zookeeper, known for his expletive-laden rants ders, a Justice Department attorney sure on the Biden administration to on YouTube and a failed 2018 gubernatorial campaign, was prom- said Tuesday. lift the public health order that was inently featured in the popular documentary “Tiger King: Murder, The comment by Assistant U.S. always intended as a temporary mea- Mayhem and Madness.” Attorney Brian Stoltz at a court hear- sure during the pandemic. The panel agreed with Maldonado-Passage that the court should have treat- ing in Fort Worth, Texas, comes as While the administration has ex- ed them as one conviction at sentencing because they both involved the same the Biden administration faces pres- empted unaccompanied children, goal of killing Baskin, who runs a rescue sanctuary for big cats in Florida. sure from pro-immigration allies to some families and nearly all adults According to the ruling, the court should have calculated his advisory sen- lift the last major Trump-era restric- traveling alone are expelled from tencing range to be between 17 1/2 years and just under 22 years in prison, tions on asylum at the border. the — often to Mexico rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison. The court Stoltz told a federal judge that the within two hours — without a chance ordered the trial court to re-sentence Maldonado-Passage. CDC will release “a new order on the to seek asylum. It’s possible that Maldonado-Passage could receive an even lower sentence subject of the children” by the end of The Associated Press reported than the range cited in the ruling because the court has to consider other fac- the week. last year that then-Vice President tors too, his appeals attorney, Brandon Sample, said. It will revise a Biden administra- Mike Pence directed the CDC to Meanwhile, another attorney representing Maldonado-Passage, John M. tion policy announced in February use emergency powers to effectively Phillips, hinted at the possibility of seeking a new trial, saying in a statement that exempts children crossing alone seal America’s borders, overruling he would be filing motions citing previously undisclosed and newly discov- from the ban on asylum. agency scientists who said there was ered evidence in the case as well as examples of government misconduct. Stoltz did not offer additional de- no evidence the action would slow tails on the changes during a hear- COVID-19. Lifting the ban could en- ing on a lawsuit that Texas brought courage more people to come to the “People should know what they saw on television isn’t the full truth. to compel enforcement of the public border to seek asylum at a time when It isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. It was snowflakes on the tip of the ice- health order that former President the U.S. is under mounting strain. berg, largely manufactured by those who wanted to see Joe Exotic in jail ’s administration used The U.N. refugee agency reported for their own benefit,” he said. to quickly expel people from the last month that the U.S. was once country during the coronavirus pan- again the top destination for asylum- demic. seekers in 2020, with about 250,000 Maldonado-Passage, who has maintained his innocence, was also sen- The government attorney said the new claims filed, more than twice as tenced for killing five tigers, selling tiger cubs and falsifying wildlife records. CDC order this week will largely high as second-place Germany. His supporters were disappointed that former President Donald Trump render Texas’ arguments moot. health and safety of all Texans.” failed to issue him a pardon before leaving office. He did not elaborate, and CDC U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, They were so confident in his chances that they had readied a celebratory spokesman Tom Skinner said the a Trump appointee, questioned Stoltz limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk him away from prison. agency had “nothing more to add about the timing of the new order and In his pardon application, Maldonado-Passage’s attorneys argued that he right now.” The CDC, in a three- asked that the government inform was “railroaded and betrayed” by others and said “he will likely die in pris- paragraph order signed by its direc- him as soon as it is issued. Pittman on” because of health concerns. tor, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, on Feb. did not rule on the request for an in- He is serving his sentence at a medical prison in Fort Worth, Texas. 11, exempted unaccompanied chil- junction but said he will put out a de- dren from being expelled to Mexico cision “as quickly as I can.”