Rotten mink carcass dumping — A commercial crab boat captain has been cited for first-degree water pollution after police say he dumped about 5,000 pounds of rotten mink carcasses into the Port of Brookings. Charles Case faces a felony for the pollution charge in Curry County Circuit Court. During the night of April 1, the 48-year-old Case and the crew of the “Anne Me” allegedly dumped the carcasses. Workers breathing through mint-scented masks to combat the smell spent the weekend retrieving 3,000 pounds of floating, bloated carcasses. Port officials expect more carcasses to surface. Port manager Ted Fitzgerald has said the smell was so bad it was tough to get near the port for awhile. Fitzgerald says crab fishermen have their own secret ingredients for bait, and mink carcasses are one of them.

Bomb plot case — The defense attorney for a teenager accused of plotting to bomb West Albany High School will ask to exclude all evidence obtained by police, including interviews. A lawyer for Grant Acord filed the paperwork last month in Benton County Circuit Court. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports attorney Jennifer Nash called the searches and interviews of the 17-year-old illegal, says his stop by police was illegal and says he was never read his Miranda rights. A hearing is scheduled for May 27, six days before Acord’s trial. Albany police arrested Acord on May 23 after receiving a tip that he planned to attack the school. Investigators found six homemade bombs under the floorboards in his bedroom, according to court documents.

Stomach virus at Seaside shelter — A stomach virus has spread quickly in a Seaside emergency shelter, forcing a six-day closure. The Daily Astorian reports the shelter houses about 40 people per night, and the closure will likely force them to survive on the street for one week. The outbreak of a stomach virus has sickened 12 people, all of whom will be allowed to stay at the shelter while they’re ill. The facility will be quarantined and surfaces wiped down with a bleach solution. Staff first noticed an illness on March 24, but a recent series of ill clients forced the closure.