A Prineville car salesman and his business are coming under fire by a growing list victims for allegedly cheating them out of tens of thousands of dollars -- which combined might be total hundreds of thousands. Central Oregon Motors, LLC, and its owner Michael Dwayne Smetzer, are also named defendants in two lawsuits for over $1.3 million.
The ex-police chief from Kansas, responsible for conducting raids on a Marion County newspaper, its journalists, and its 98-year-old co-owner, is set to face criminal charges following an independent probe that uncovered proof of his interference with the legal process.