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WHO DID WHAT, OR WHO
IN THE NEWS BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN
COURTESY MARION COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
ANDREW FREY
P
eople having sex isn’t “news.” Sex is
how our species survives, after all. Sex
scandals make the headlines when the sex
is had in awkward places, with ill-chosen
or inappropriate people, including, as it
turns out, one’s own self. That’s when sex makes the pages
of not just tabloid news but the rarifi ed newsprint (and
websites, for endless sharing) of The Oregonian and The
Register-Guard.
Finding sex in EW, however, is a weekly occurrence
for readers of our back pages, but that’s not scandal; that’s
dating and advice.
Oregon’s top sex scandal this year is, hands down, the
man we like to call the “Tasered masturbator.” It would
seem that Andrew Frey of Beaverton, after doing a little
meth, headed on over to Iggy’s Bar & Grill in Salem
where, The O reports, “A bartender told authorities that
Frey exposed his genitals and started masturbating at the
bar.” By the time a sheriff’s deputy arrived on scene, “Frey
had moved from the bar to the bathroom, but reportedly
had not stopped pleasuring himself.”
Not only did Frey not stop “pleasuring himself,” it took
15 more deputies to arrest him after multiple zaps from a
Taser had no effect. Frey later said he had no memory of
what happened.
Less electric in nature, was the downfall of now-former
Multnomah County chair Jeff Cogen, whose extramarital
affair was doggedly reported on by both The Oregonian
and Willamette Week. Cogen was, until that point, a rising
political star. But these days a little sex and drugs is not
career-ending. The O reports that Cogen’s paramour Sonia
Manhas said, “Cogen was a near-daily marijuana user
who also used ecstasy and cocaine.” The alleged pot use
occurred before parades, according to a Department of
Justice report, which also quotes Manhas as calling Cogen
a “dead head.”
Adding to the drama of taking a puff before watching
parades was the news that, apparently with Cogen’s help,
Manhas, who worked in the Multnomah County Health
Department, was able to push her own dreadful agenda:
things like “calorie counts on large chain restaurant menus
and a countywide ban on Sippy cups and other items made
with the chemical compound BPA.”
On Oregon’s east side, January’s most newsworthy sex
scandal was the Bend cop who quit after an investigation
began into his alleged sex with a journalist and three city
of Bend employees, according to the Bend Bulletin. Sadly,
the wire report the R-G ran contained only the dry details,
while readers of the original story in the Bulletin were
treated to descriptions of the antics of Bend Police public
information offi cer Lt. Chris Carney, such as, “he was
insubordinate, untruthful, and he had sexual relationships
on duty, in various locations in the police station, the east
substation and in public areas.”
The Bulletin further reported that an investigator found
“Carney admitted to having sex in his offi ce at the police
department and in a hotel at a training conference funded
by the department.”
Lane County is last but not least when it comes to
hooking up at conferences and sordid love lives hitting
headlines. After Lane County Administrator Liane
Richardson was fi red for playing with her pay, it was
alleged that there might have been some other playing
around as well while she was working for the county.
As the R-G put it, Richardson may have “formed an
unusual relationship with a Eugene police offi cer,” and
the paper wrote that Richardson’s husband alleged that
while she was administrator she went on a ride-along with
the offi cer in “his city-owned police vehicle and having
sex with him during his work hours in a county-owned
building.”
The R-G again left out the details in its reporting, so EW
felt compelled to reveal in our own story that according to
the ex, the offi cer and Richardson “had sex on the fl oor of
the armory on his sweatshirt.”
The scandal, like the devil, is often in the details. ♥
CHRIS CARNEY
BEND POLICE
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