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Police Beat Thief steals woman’s checks, forges three IAn unknown thief stole a Eu gene woman’s checkbook Dec. 30 and later wrote three forged checks at campus-area stores, a police report said. The checkbook was apparently stolen from a locked apartment mailbox. There were no signs of forced entry into the mailbox. The woman is not being held responsible for the purchases made with the forged checks. Phi Kappa Psi member reports stolen items 2A number of items were stolen from a student’s bedroom at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house during the winter break. One hundred thirty-six com pact discs were stolen during the break-in, which is believed to have occurred between Dec. 30 and Jan. 4 sometime around 4 or 5 p.m. Damage was done to the bedroom door frame and the lock assembly. There were no signs of forced entry into the house. The student said a local con tractor had several workers in the house, which was unoccupied during the break, who were in stalling carpet. The workers had the front door combination, the student said. According to the reporting offi cer, fraternity houses are often left relatively unsecured during Uni versity breaks and are easily ac cessed. Large house robbed during winter break 3A 12-speed mountain bike and several compact discs were among the items taken during a burglary at 1708 Alder St. The burglary, which was re ported Jan. 1 by a resident who had items stolen, happened some time between Dec. 8 and Dec. 15. Items taken from other residents of the large, multi-level house in clude stereo equipment and CDs. A coin-operated washing ma chine was broken into and the contents stolen. A coin-operated dryer was also damaged when the robber attempted to break into it. Six residents were in the process of moving out of the house during the approximate time of the robbery. There were no detectable signs of forced entry into the house. The reporting officer was ad vised that the windows of the house did not secure well. The officer found the house to be dirty, so he could not take finger prints for processing. However, a partial shoe print was found on the damaged washing machine coin box. Man cited for cutting tree limbs on campus 4A 27-year-old Eugene man was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he was caught cutting tree limbs Dec. 30 on campus. At approximately 10:20 p.m., an officer responded to a call and found the man in a tree west of Beall Hall with a loop saw. The man, who said he had pre viously been a landscaper, said he was not damaging trees when he cut the three limbs. The man, whose ticket was $505, was cited and released. The officer planned to contact the tree maintenance supervisor at the University to see if work would need to be done because of the incident. — Compiled by Jesse Sowa Girl charged in child prostitution case A 17-year-old girl is accused of organizing a teenage prostitution ring in Astoria The Associated Press ASTORIA — A grand jury this week considers the case of a 17 year-old girl charged with forcing other teens into prostitution to provide food, shelter, drugs and alcohol for herself. Brandy Marie Huff-Olvera was arrested Friday on three counts of conspiring to compel prostitution, involving three 14-year-old girls. She is held in the Donald E. Long Home for juveniles in Portland. Authorities are considering charging Huff, who turns 18 in April, as an adult. Huff is accused of arranging sex ual encounters between teenage girls and men in two Astoria neigh borhoods in this coastal town of 10,000 where police have been in vestigating allegations of crimes involving sex, drugs and alcohol for months, authorities said. Huff “basically supported her self” through the arrangements, Astoria Police Capt. Alan Oja said. The men paid her with alcohol, drugs, food, housing and trans portation, he said. “At this point, I can’t tell you how many people have been in volved. We’re still looking for some answers to some of those questions. Suffice it to say, there were a num ber of adult men involved and it’s been going on for some time, proba bly months,” Oja said. Police have arrested eight men for crimes ranging from sexual abuse to furnishing alcohol to mi nors. The investigation was launched after a 26-year-old man was arrest ed for having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. Officer Greg Walker, who helped lead the investigation, said men would pick out a girl they ob served in two neighborhoods and Huff would “take an order for a girl.” Huff would contact the girls and arrange get-togethers. Walker said Huff would supply liquor and sometimes cocaine, methamphetamines or marijuana “and essentially get the girl to the state of intoxication where she didn’t know what was going on and steered her to the male adult,” Walker said. Huff allegedly arranged fora 14 year-old Astoria girl to party with her and two men in Ilwaco, Wash., in December, where police said the younger girl was raped by a 19 year-old man. Two weeks later, on Dec. 19, po lice found the girl, a runaway, in a room rented by Huff at an Astoria motel. Two men, Antonio Medina Perez, 21, and Federico Reyes Javamillo are charged with sex abuse crimes in that incident. Some of the girls fell in love or thought they were in love with the men who gave them gifts and treated them politely, Walker ex plained. Huff has two children who are in her parents’ custody, police said. She is fluent in Spanish and met the men, most of whom are Mexi can nationals, by acting as a trans lator, police said. 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