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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1995)
Man robbed of stolen money PORTLAND i.MM A bizarre ( use got n little stronger Saturday when a bag full of iash was robbed front a man who had stolen it during one of the nation’s largest automated teller scams but was attempting to return it to authorities About a dozen (sir patrons gave (.base and caught the man about a him h aw ay As he vs as cap lured, be tossed some of the cash into the air, hut police recovered tln> money It all began when David Gal higher, one of a group that used a stolen card to rob $:)46 '70 from automated teller machines t N big containing SfiO.OOO in t ash to the Secret .Service on Saturday as part of his plea-bargain agree men! Gallagher, 40. said he was on his way to meet his lawyer to turn over the money when he de< id ed to stop for .1 soft tlrmk Gallagher. vs f11> was mi nn-k end release, said !i« left the rash to his car, f'artland police spokesman ( W Jensen said When he went out to the t ar to grab some1 ash to pay his tvir tab. he was i onfronted by a gunman Jensen said Callaghttr wrestled the gun away from his assailant, hut the man took off w ith the bag of l ash Gallagher's st reams drew i crowd. whic h chased and sub clued the suspect Pul ii e charged Justin Morns, .'it. uf Milwaukte. with first degree robbery unlaw ful use of a weapon and possession of a i ontmllod subst.un e. Jensen said Jenson said police recovered the money and were holding it as evident e Jensen admitted the whole thing sounded fishy hut police itelieved Gallagher's ai count "To nay it sountiN like it coin cidence would lx- an understate m*mt. Jensen said "Bui a deux (ivis talked la bwth Individual* After talking to the susjhx 1. the deles live fait confident that whnt happened was exactly what was said Ualingher and four m romplu es made ’24 withdrawal* from 4H A l*Ms with a stolen card N'ov its . was one of the largt-st thefts ttf its kind The culprits made phony deposit* and then withdrew the money they falsely had told the A I'M machine they d deposited A computer software problem at the Oregon Telco ( redd Union removed the usual 5200 daily limit on withdrawal* during the Weekend spree Ait five have pleaded guilts and face sentences ranging from to months to nearly four veers Oregon militia leader quits group SAI.KM (AI ‘) An Oregon milili.i leader has disbanded his group, citing n fear of govern ment spies and a l.u k of support from his followers "My heart’s still m it," said Mike Cross, n 28-vear-old insur ant e salesman from Salem "Hut it was too frustrating It s frus trating there weren’t more peo ple willing to get off their butts and help." Cross said Friday he believed the Salem-based militia had been infiltrated by government spies “There were security breaches," he said These went plants hv the government Oregon State Polite have been monitoring militia groups since the bombing in (Jklahoma tidy, said I t Herme Giusto. polo e spokesman Hut Gross said his dot i sum to, get out of the militia had noth ing to til) u itil tile intense s< ruti nv given to citizen militia groups following the* bombing "That part is a coincident.e." lie said. At the same time, said Gross, government officials had tried l*» "demonize” i ilizen militias m the wake of the tragic bombing ■ ■ - lem body.’* h*> said, "thev tan get away with anything Cross' dot ision to quit also t oinoided vs ith the resignations of top loaders in the Michigan. Militia Corps and thn loader of tho Box Klder militia in Utah Cross hog,in organizing the Northwest Oregon Regional Militia las! October afr*■; reading a newspaper article about the Mil higan Militia Northern California storm causes floods, tornadoes SHIM.11 FOU N, ( aid (AP) Another weather sys tem washed into Northern ( alifumirt an Saturday. prudut mg flash floods that vs as hint out roads and bridge* near l.assen National I ores’ and tornado*"* thill uprooted tr«ts in 1.1 Dorado Counts As mui h as 4 iru hi'S of rain poured down in two hours Sot uritav aft nr noun, furnug the closure of Highwav 44, the main art nr v behvistn Redding and eastern Shasta (bounty, for about <*0 irmiuti's until 2:30 p rn ICom Gardner said 1 ho water also washed out five or six small bridges »u rest* dent ml areas in and around Shitigletown, In* said, and an unknown number of people were stranded, hut nobody was injured 1 he water l>«»gan rot edmg in the afternoon. I he National Weather Servo e issued a tornado warning in western hi Dorado Cantntv when <i pair of twisters tou* hod down near l at robe Road and near Shingle Springs Nome trees were uprooted at Shingle Springs hut no other damage was report otl I he series of storms that brought the latest round of flooding to winter-wears Northern ( ildorma tame CHIt of Mayvaii, Nation al Weather Serve a iii*»teor»»S».igist Miguel Miller said Hie air is so heavy with water that every wave impulse is dumping.' he said 1 he precipitation was no! heavy enough to warrant flood wati hev hut residents along the Russian and Napa rivers, whii h have overflowed their hanks already several times this year, were keeping an eye on water levels Right now we re just hanging on. Miller said Rainfall totals on Saturday ran up to ’ im hes over 4rt hours n the Sir! r .i Nev ad a east < >! ( .In. i < ( )t f ier .r \ her n S;*-r f .1 .mi-, sm h as HdU rest in the Shasta and Siskiyou mountains' region ‘•aw more than i im hes w Nil*’ northern Men din mo Fountv .md the mountains west of Healdshurg had about i im lies Intermittentlv heavy rains wort* expected tot ontinue through Monday then lighten up. Miller said More rain was expe< ted Liter next week With a ns ord snow pat k in the Sierra Nevada, rain up to H.tKHI feel m elevation and reservoirs already at uipm ity water offi 1 ials are also keeping a t lose eve on dams and some are already releasing extra amounts Shasta and Orovilte dams started mi reasiug releases Fri day. meteorologist Mike Pechner said iiPizza Pipeline & + f.CT 12 6121 S . 8 SUCtS am M • 9 &JCE3 sat t. a suets Did you know that a 16" round pizza has 14% more food that a 1 5' round pizza, and 30% more food than a 14" round pizza? 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