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Kidnapping suspect arrested in Portland ■ CRIME: Abduction case was featured on the television show “Unsolved Mysteries” The Associated Press PORTLAND — Jimmy Ray LeGate wants to return Massachu setts to face charges he abducted a teen-age girl for a cross-country run from the law. From a Plexiglas prisoner’s booth, LeGate waived extradition Tuesday morning in a Portland courtroom. “The charges are ludicrous,” LeGate told the judge. “I just want to go face the Massachusetts charges.” Those charges include kidnap ping and unlawful sex. He refused to waive extradition to Florida, where he faces a proba tion violation on convictions re lated to another teen-age girl, his daughter. Florida is willing to de fer to Massachusetts, then deal with the probation violation later, said Steve Todd, deputy district attorney in Multnomah County. LeGate should be back in Mass achusetts within two weeks, Todd said. Until then, he will be kept at the Multnomah County Jail in downtown Portland. FBI agents arrested LeGate over the weekend in a northeast Port land apartment. LeGate, 41, is accused of ab ducting 14-year-old Karen Lyn Lofland from her home in South Hadley, Mass., on Sept. 19 after he had lived with the family for five weeks. The girl was in good condition and was being cared for by the state children’s services agency. The case was featured on the “Unsolved Mysteries” TV pro gram in November, but FBI agent Mike Ruffner said the bureau's in vestigation, not TV viewers, led them to LeGate. The FBI had traced the pair through Arizona, California, Ida ho, Montana and Washington be fore arresting LeGate at the Port land apartment where he and the girl were staying with a tenant. “Somebody from here picked him up and I don’t know how long he’d been here,” said Kim Sweeney, assistant apartment manager. “It’s kind of scary to know that we, right here in our complex, that this guy was here.” Barbara Lofland said her daughter, described as a special needs child, had befriended LeGate and brought him home. She allowed him to stay after he told them he was 21 and down on his luck. LeGate vanished with Karen af ter the girl’s father, Jim Ryan, or dered him out of the house. "I didn’t know this guy was like this,” Barbara Loflund said Mon day. “He was just a con artist.” LeGate is on 15 years’ proba tion in Florida where he was con victed of forcing or enticing his 13-year-old daughter to commit lewd or lascivious acts. Eugene prison site faces debate ■ JAIL: Governor Kitzhaber accepted several locations but ordered further review of a Lane County choice By Jennifer Schmitt Community Editor A prison may still be looming in Eugene’s future, but alterna tive sites are being considered. In December, Governor Kitzhaber accepted four of the seven prison sites nominated by the Siting Authority. Kitzhaber will reopen the nominated sites in the Portland Metro area, Lane County and Jackson County for more discus sion, said Jim Lockwood, public affairs director for the Depart ment of Corrections. “There will be men’s medium security prisons in those areas,” Lockwood said. “But the Gover nor wanted more time for look ing into the sites and alterna tives.” The Siting Authority will of ficially reopen the Lane County and Jackson County sites on Feb. 8, Lockwood said. One alternative to the Eugene site is to build the prison, which will hold approximately 1,600 prisoners, in Junction City. “The Junction City site is within their urban growth boundary and wouldn’t impact the local airport,” said Phil Weiler, public information ana lyst. “Those were both concerns discussed regarding the Eugene H There will be men’s medium security prisons in those areas. But the Governor wanted more time for looking into the sites and alternatives. —Jim Lockwood Department of Corrections -99 site.” One of the key requests Lane County Commissioners made to the Siting Authority was that any construction on a prison in Lane County not begin until 1999, Lockwood said. “Since we have a little more time, we decided to take a broader look at it,” he said. “We don’t have a lot of time to look into it, but we can take a step back and look at other options.” The Eugene location being considered for the new prison is an area called the Meadow View site and is located on Hwy 99, just off of Awbrey Lane. One of the reasons the Junc tion City site is being considered is because of the large negative reaction from the Eugene com munity. Discussions regarding alter native sites focus on the desire to choose a site with fewer prob lems and objections, Lockwood said. “There may be a more viable option,” Lockwood said. “An al temative site seems to be more acceptable to a broader number of people.” Gov. Kitzhaber will make a fi nal decision on the Lane County prison site on April 17, Weiler said. Another site being reopened for consideration is the Dammasch State Hospital site in Wilsonville. “We were supposed to break ground on the prison there in April but it looks like we won’t even be starting the project un til next fall,” Lockwood said. “The governor is keeping the site unless an alternative can be found.” The sites that were approved by the governor include: men’s medium security prisons in Umatilla and Madras and work camps in Oakridge and Lake view. The need for new prisons arose after Measure 11 passed last year. 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