BAKER CITY — A Baker City woman who has been convicted of multiple crimes in different areas of Baker County since 2019, including Baker City, Durkee and Halfway, has been sentenced to 73 months in prison.

Pearl Naomi Adair, 41, who is described as homeless in court records, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 22, by Judge Matt Shirtcliff in Baker County Circuit Court on two convictions in Baker County

Adair will be incarcerated at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, the women’s state prison in Wilsonville.

She had been sent to Coffee Creek on April 21, 2022, to serve a 17-month sentence on a Union County case. Adair pleaded guilty in April 2021 to first-degree theft for stealing an antique sewing machine from a La Grande business in December 2020. She was sentenced to 24 months of probation on that conviction, but her probation was revoked in March 2022 because she failed to report to her probation officer or complete substance abuse treatment as required, according to Union County court records.

Adair was returned from Coffee Creek to the Baker County Jail on May 25 at the request of her attorney, Robert Whitnah of Baker City, prior to the June 22 sentencing, Baker County District Attorney Greg M. Baxter said.

Adair has been in custody, either in the Baker County Jail or at Coffee Creek, since early October 2021, Baxter said.

Prior to sentencing Adair, Shirtcliff noted her recurring criminal history, most recently an Oct. 6, 2021, incident in which she entered a house in Baker City while the couple who lived there were home.

Adair pleaded guilty June 22 to first-degree burglary, a Class A felony, in that case. She was sentenced to 26 months in prison on that charge, Baxter said.

Two other charges, for third-degree theft and second-degree criminal trespassing, were dismissed.

The resident of the home took cellphone videos showing Adair in his backyard on the evening of Oct. 6, 2021.

According to a police report, when the resident confronted Adair and told her to drop the items she was holding, she claimed the items belonged to her.

Baker City Police arrested Adair on Oct. 7, 2021.

The rest of the 73-month sentence includes the 17 months on the Union County theft and 30 months on a first-degree burglary conviction in Baker County in 2021. That prison sentence was initially suspended, Baxter said.

Shirtcliff imposed the three prison sentences — 26, 17 and 30 months — to run consecutively, yielding the total term of 73 months.

Baxter said he argued for the sentences to run consecutively rather than concurrently — in which case Adair would have served a maximum of 30 months, the longest of the three terms — because “there were separate victims and she had been given multiple opportunities to better herself while on probation.”

The 30-month sentence was based on Adair pleading guilty April 23, 2021, to first-degree burglary. She admitted spending a night in the Eldorado Motel in Baker City in February 2021 without paying for it, according to court records.

Failures to comply with probation termsBaxter said Adair had been ordered to complete substance abuse treatment and participate in the Baker County Mental Health Court, which offers mental health services to people, most of whom are on probation, but she failed to do either.

“She had every opportunity,” Baxter said.

Adair’s history of failing to comply with probation requirements is outlined in two reports from probation officer Debbi Wray, one from June 15, 2021, the other from Oct. 14, 2021.

Adair was on probation at the time for the Eldorado Motel incident and for convictions in 2020.

In the June 15 report, Wray writes that “Ms. Adair has failed to engage in any of her treatment recommendations.”

Adair tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana on May 18, 2021, and she failed to report to her probation officer on April 26 and May 4, Wray, who had supervised Adair’s probation since August 2020.

“She was referred to employment services but due to pain, she states she cannot work,” Wray wrote in the June 15 report. “Ms. Adair went through the process and qualified for social security disability, which she did on her own less than a year ago. Ms. Adair exhibits the ability to get things done if it’s something she wants. I believe Ms. Adair does need mental health and addiction treatment but getting her to engage has been ineffective. Unfortunately, Ms. Adair is unable to count on family for support, money or housing. Family members that live out of state have contacted me but do not want to give her money unless she ‘is clean’ and ‘doing good.’ ”

Baxter said Adair lived in the Boise area before moving to Baker City.

In the Oct. 14, 2021, report, Wray wrote that Adair had again failed to attend required drug treatment.

“She has been provided a place to live twice in which she was asked to leave for violation of curfew and drug use,” Wray wrote. “She was presented with the possibility of transition housing for women, clean and sober housing, upon successful completion of treatment as encouragement to make good choices.”

Two arrests in 2019 lead to prison termAdair’s first arrest in Baker County was in February 2019, when her address was in Boise.

Adair and Deylen Scott Loos of Meridian, Idaho, were found in a home on Vandecar Road in Durkee that was supposed to be empty.

A local resident who knows the homeowner called police and then went to the home with a friend, who had a shotgun.

Eric Colton of the Baker County Sheriff’s Office arrested Adair and Loos.

While charges from the Durkee case were pending, Adair was arrested in April 2019 for stealing a variety of items, including a .357 pistol, from a home near Halfway.

On June 12, 2019, Adair pleaded guilty to charges in both the Durkee and Halfway incidents, including first-degree burglary in the Halfway case, and first-degree criminal trespassing and third-degree theft in the Durkee episode. She was sentenced to 18 months in a state prison and three years probation.

An official from the Oregon Department of Corrections has not responded to a request for information about how long Adair was in prison in 2019.