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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.
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Preston was arrested May 17 by the batons and took items from the home. The
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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
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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
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of hindering prosecution.
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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,”
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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.”
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investigating the incident.
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By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon’s tax
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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-
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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.
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something like it in Oregon. For
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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
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from 2008 to 2012, and which
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“Grimm,” the NBC series
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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
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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
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video production tax incentives
by the Film Production Capital
website.
According to a 2014 report
by the National Conference
of State Legislatures, 39 states
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video production, but others
have dropped or scaled back
their programs.
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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.
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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