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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015 3A &RSVQDEPRUHKRPHLQYDVLRQVXVSHFWV Alleged kidnapper from the home invasion April 3 at a res- idence on the 300 block of Alameda Av- enue in Astoria. A month later, Tillamook Two remaining suspects connected to residents Joseph Vernon Armstrong, 31, the assault and robbery during an Astoria and Tasha H. Van Dolah, 33, were iden- home invasion in April have been caught. WL¿HGDORQJZLWK.HYLQ-RKQ0RUVH Amanda Maye Preston, 26, of Tilla- of Astoria. mook, who allegedly acted as a getaway Court documents reveal Armstrong car driver, and Leticia Vivian Westfall, and Lane entered the Alameda Avenue 21, of Astoria, an alleged lookout, were residence April 3 wearing masks and de- recently arrested and booked in Clatsop manded money and cellphones. They al- County Jail. OHJHGO\VWUXFNWZRPHQZLWK¿UHDUPVDQG Preston was arrested May 17 by the batons and took items from the home. The 7LOODPRRN &RXQW\ 6KHULII¶V 2I¿FH DQG DVVDXOWHG PHQ KDG VLJQL¿FDQW KHDG DQG transported to Clat- body injuries. Two sop County Thurs- other women in the day. She pleaded residence were in- not guilty Friday jured from pepper in Clatsop County spray. Circuit Court to the Armstrong and same 13 counts of Lane reportedly assault, burglary, stole two purses, a menacing, unlaw- cellphone, a stereo ful possession of a VSHDNHU DQG ÀHG weapon, robbery the residence in a Anthony Victor Amanda Maye and theft as the four Oldsmobile Bra- Lane Preston other suspects al- vada, court docu- ready in custody. ments state. Westfall was arrested on the 1600 A Seaside detective found the Oldsmo- block of North Wahanna Road in Seaside bile Bravada shortly after the incident at May 7 by the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Of- Arnie’s Café in Warrenton, but the vehicle ¿FH6KHLVEHLQJFKDUJHGZLWKWZRFRXQWV was unoccupied. of hindering prosecution. /DQHZDVLGHQWL¿HGDVDVXVSHFWLQSDUW She is scheduled for an arraignment after he made a phone call to an inmate in June 2. Preston has another court hearing Tillamook County Jail the day of the as- June 12. sault and robbery and said he was in hid- “With the arrest of Preston, we have ing, according to court documents. He also now located all of the main people in- told the inmate he “had gone to do a hit on a volved,” Astoria Police Deputy Chief Eric guy.” Halverson said. Anthony Victor Lane, 30, A Tillamook County detective over- RI6W+HOHQVZDVWKH¿UVWVXVSHFWFDXJKW heard the phone call and informed the As- By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian toria Police. Oregon State Police found Lane April 28 on the 1800 block of South Roosevelt Drive in Seaside. Astoria Police believe there might be other people who aided Lane while he was on the run. “There is a potential that other people could be charged later, but that remains to be seen,” Halverson said. Lane, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month, is due back in court June 1. Armstrong and Van Dolah, an alleged lookout during the incident, are facing the same 13 counts as the others. Arm- strong is scheduled for arraignment Wednesday. Van Dolah has not yet been transferred from Tillamook County Jail, where she is serving time for previous bur- Leticia Vivian glary and drug Westfall charges. Morse, another alleged lookout and aid to Lane, also faces the same 13 counts along with a charge of hindering prosecution for providing Lane transportation. Morse pleaded not guilty to the charges and will appear in court again Wednesday. When Lane allegedly committed the assault and robbery, he was out on bail for DFKDUJHRIIHORQLQSRVVHVVLRQRID¿UHDUP that occurred in Seaside March 17. That charge will be handled separately at his next court hearing June 1. Bank some time at the college The Daily Astorian Clatsop Community College will host This As That Productions and its partners Lower Columbia TimeBank and Portland Time Bank for a screening of “Time as Mon- H\´DQHZIHDWXUHGRFXPHQWDU\¿OPE\/H- nore and Mark Eklund about timebanking. “Time as Money” will be shown at 2:30 p.m. June 18 at the college’s South County campus, 1455 N. Roosevelt Drive in Seaside. The second showing will be 6:30 p.m. June 18 on the college’s main campus, 1651 Lexington Ave., in Co- lumbia Hall Room 219. The screening will be followed by a question-and-an- swer with Lenore Eklund and board members from the Lower Columbia TimeBank. “Time as Money” is a documentary exploring timebanking, a service ex- change program that uses time as the currency. Timebanking began in the 1980s, while civil rights lawyer and former speech writer for Robert Ken- nedy, Edgar Cahn, was lying in a hos- pital bed after a heart attack. The expe- rience of feeling helpless, similar to the disenfranchised and unemployed, gave him the idea to create a new system of money as a tool to connect people and neighbors called time dollars. The film was funded with time, the currency of timebanking, with which production help was paid. Fishing boat sinks; Coast Guard at scene ILWACO, Wash. — Coast Guard incident management crews are monitoring a sunken ¿VKLQJYHVVHOIRUSROOXWLRQDQG hazard to navigation concerns in the Ilwaco Channel near Cape Disappointment. There is a potential of 500 gallons of diesel fuel aboard the vessel. At 5:38 a.m. Saturday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Columbia River in War- renton received a report from a good Samaritan via VHF-FM channel 16 that the 37-foot ¿VKLQJYHVVHOFour Forty had struck a piling in Ilwaco chan- nel. The good Samaritan rescued the two people aboard Four Forty before the vessel sank about 100 yards east of the “A” Jetty in about 40 feet of water. Coast Guard pollution re- sponders and investigators ar- rived on scene around 8:40 a.m. and are actively monitoring the situation. A light sheening has been reported in the area. The owner of Four Forty is working with a salvage compa- ny to remove the vessel from the channel. Its position has been marked by a red cherry buoy and Coast Guard watch- standers have issued a Safety Marine Information Broadcast to alert mariners in the area. “We are asking all mari- ners to steer clear of the area around the sunken vessel,” VDLG 3HWW\ 2I¿FHU VW &ODVV J.M. “Mike” Bennett, situa- tions unit controller at Sector Columbia River. “The crews on scene are working to mit- igate any potential pollution and remove the vessel as quickly as possible.” &RDVW *XDUG RI¿FLDOV DUH investigating the incident. /DZPDNHUVSUHVVHGWRH[WHQGH[SDQG¿OPFUHGLWV By PETER WONG Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon’s tax FUHGLWIRULQVWDWH¿OPDQGYLGHR production has four more years to run, but its advocates have come to Salem to urge lawmak- ers to extend and expand it. While they didn’t put on the full-court press they did two years ago, when the tax break was up for renewal, advocates say Oregon should seize the op- SRUWXQLWLHV RSHQHG E\ ¿OPLQJ such television shows as “Lever- age,” “Grimm” and “The Librar- ians.” Christian Kane, who plays Jake Stone on “The Librarians,” was one of those talking with lawmakers this week. “Oregon allows itself to be- come any other place,” he said. “If we want to go to a different FLW\ RU FRXQWU\ \RX FDQ ¿QG something like it in Oregon. For XVWKDW¶VWKHEHDXW\RI¿OPLQJLQ Oregon. It’s really fun to be able to use Oregon for everything it is worth — and we do.” “The Librarians” starts shoot- ing its second season for TNT on June 3. Its creator is Dean Devlin, who also was co-executive pro- ducer of “Leverage,” which also DLUHG RQ 717 IRU ¿YH VHDVRQV from 2008 to 2012, and which ZDV¿OPHGLQ3RUWODQG “Grimm,” the NBC series ¿OPHG LQ 3RUWODQG HQGHG LWV fourth season on May 15. The current Oregon Produc- tion Investment Fund is limited to $10 million annually in tax credits, which are subtracted directly from taxes owed, and which are auctioned. The cred- it was renewed in 2013 for six years. Film and video producers qualify for a 20 percent rebate on in-state spending for goods and services — there is a $1 million minimum expenditure — and a Pamplin Media Group Jonathan Frakes, center, directed episode 103 of The Li- brarians, part of which was filmed at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital. Film and TV interests are pressing legislators to extend and expand tax credits for such productions. 10 percent rebate on wages paid, including out-of-state residents. “As a result of this invest- ment, there are shows that are happening and getting Oregon noticed,” said Rep. Tobias Read, D-Beaverton, one of the legis- lators promoting expansion. “I want to make sure we extend this program and increase our in- vestment in it, because it does so many good things for the state.” Tax committees have before them House Bill 2072, which would expand the credits fund to $20 million annually and pro- vide incentives for production outside Portland; House Bill W A NTED 2898, which would extend the credit to 2024, and Senate Bill 872, which would extend the credit to Oregon producers of video games. Oregon rates only two stars DPRQJWKHVWDWHVZLWK¿OPDQG video production tax incentives by the Film Production Capital website. According to a 2014 report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, 39 states KDYHWD[LQFHQWLYHVIRU¿OPDQG video production, but others have dropped or scaled back their programs. 7KLV VWRU\ ¿UVW DSSHDUHG LQ WKH 2UHJRQ &DSLWDO ,QVLGHU newsletter. To subscribe, go to RUHJRQFDSLWDOLQVLGHUFRP pleads not guilty to new charges “It was inflated because the state had some informa- tion that they thought Mr. Russell Wayne Devin- Deviney had money due to a ey, the Everett, Wash., man previous association or em- accused of kidnapping and ployment with Microsoft,” raping a 15-year-old Cal- von Boeckmann said. “He ifornia girl, pleaded not has told me otherwise. The guilty Friday in guy has no money.” Clatsop County A nationwide Circuit Court to 12 felony warrant was felony charges. issued last week out of Clatsop Coun- Deviney, 48, ty Circuit Court was arrested May for Deviney’s 14 just south of arrest. Cannon Beach on Cannon Beach six charges. The Police and FBI charges were dou- agents found bled after a grand behind jury met Thurs- Russell Wayne Deviney a locked gate in a day. A grand jury Deviney privately owned indicted Deviney wooded area south for first-degree kidnapping, two counts of Cannon Beach, after a of first-degree rape, two passer-by reported see- counts of first-degree un- ing him and called Cannon lawful sexual penetration, Beach Police. When Deviney was two counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of us- asked his name, he simply ing a child in a display of said, “I’m the guy you’re sexually explicit conduct looking for.” Deviney allegedly kid- for photographing the girl naked, and three counts napped the girl May 9 in of first-degree sexual Sanger, Calif. He left her and his 2004 Nissan Pickup abuse. He made an initial court at McDonald’s in Astoria appearanceMay 15, when his May 11. The girl was later reunit- bail was set at $1 million. District Attorney Josh ed with her family. Deviney allegedly sex- Marquis requested the high bail amount after discover- ually assaulted the girl at ing Deviney had assets from an Oregon rest area. The former employment with charges against Devin- ey claimed the alleged Microsoft. In court Friday, Judge crimes occurred in Clatsop Philip Nelson continued the County. He has no local ties to $1 million bail. Deviney’s appoint- Clatsop County and there ed defense lawyer James is no indication Astoria was von Boeckmann argued his intended destination, ac- that Deviney no longer cording to Astoria Police. Marquis said other juris- has the assets the state dictions could also charge believes. As a result, von Boeck- Deviney. Deviney is due back in mann plans to ask for a bail hearing for the court court at 10:30 a.m. June 12 to decide if bail should be for an early resolution con- ference. lowered. 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