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The contents of the on-line edition of The Nugget represent a selection among the stories that appear in the weekly print edition.

Sisters Sheriff's calls

• A deputy arrested a woman in Sisters for violating a restraining order in Redmond.



• A woman confronted hunters who wanted to shoot a deer in her neighbor's back yard. The hunters left.



• Someone reported hunters chasing deer in the Buck Run subdivision. A deputy contacted the men, who said they were tracking a deer that had been injured by someone else.



• A deputy assisted an elderly driver who was lost.



• Three young Sisters men were involved in a physical altercation.
  
• A woman reported that her power went out and then there was a loud bang on her wall, then someone ran away. Deputies surmised that, since there was a thunderstorm and an area-wide power outage, the "prowler" was probably a thunderclap.
  
  It left no footprints.

• A deputy responded when a man called to say his wife of 10 months had locked him out of the house. The deputy stood by while the man retrieved some personal items and left for a friendlier port of call.
  
• A woman reported a suspicious e-mail that sought bank account information.
  
• Someone stole a replica of Pat Garret's .45 Colt Peacemaker from a local shop. There was no suspect information, though it is widely reported that Billy the Kid didn't really die that night in Fort Sumner...
  
• A man reported his license plates stolen from his car.
  
• Deputies investigated two deaths that turned out to be from natural causes. One was a former liver transplant patient who died in his home; the other was the victim of a heart attack while climbing the Tam McArthur Rim Trail.

Information in "Sisters sheriff's calls" is taken from log entries and reports of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office.

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