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
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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. The measure created
mandatory prison sentences,
which means an increase in the
number of people in jail and the
length of their sentences.
Last summer, letters were sent
to cities throughout Oregon
looking for communities willing
to volunteer their areas for con
sideration as a new prison site.
Eugene did not ask to be con
sidered for a site and when the
city council received a letter in
forming them that Eugene was
being considered, the city coun
cil formally opposed the nomi
nation.
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