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THE DAILY ASTORIAN TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
One good turn: Lake Oswego cop recovers stolen Seaside bike
By ANTHONY MACUK
Lake Oswego Review
LAKE OSWEGO —
When Chuck Lambert and
his wife, Cheryl, decided
to spend a weekend in Sea-
side last month, they say they
were looking forward to a
fun-¿lled three-day getaway
But after just one night at the
coast, they discovered that
Chuck Lambert’s bicycle was
missing
Despite being secured in
the back of his truck on the
fourth Àoor of a gated parking
garage, the bike had been sto-
len during the night
“Unfortunately, there were
stairs on the outside that I
didn’t know about,” Lambert
says
So he headed to the Sea-
side 3olice Station to ¿le a
report with the of¿cer on duty
—and there he met John Brent
from Lake Oswego
Brent was one of ¿ve
Lake Oswego of¿cers who
volunteered in Seaside that
day, freeing up the town’s
own police of¿cers to attend
the funeral for Seaside of¿-
cer and Sherwood native Sgt
Jason Goodding Goodding
was shot and killed on )eb
Anthony Macuk/Lake Oswego Review
After Chuck Lambert (left) had his bike stolen while on vacation in Seaside, Lake Oswe-
go Police Officer John Brent helped him track it down. Brent was one of five Lake Oswe-
go officers who volunteered at the coast last month so that Seaside police could mourn
the loss of Sgt. Jason Goodding.
5 while attempting to serve a
felony warrant
Brent took down Lam-
bert’s report and gave him
his own contact informa-
tion But there wasn’t much
else that could be done at the
time, he told the Port Orchard,
Washington, resident, espe-
cially since Lambert didn’t
know the bike’s serial num-
ber Lambert says the bike
model in question retails for
, although he had ¿[ed
it up with numerous after-
market additions and modi¿-
cations, including a new seat,
e[tended handlebars, head-
lights and a mounted tool bag
“I took the report and tried
to console him,” Brent says “I
said, µLet your vacation go on’”
When
the
Lamberts
returned home to Port
Orchard, Chuck Lambert
began searching through sale
listings on Craigslist, hoping
to catch the thief attempting
to unload his bike +e says
he searched in Seaside and a
number of other coastal Ore-
gon cities, with no luck And
then, on a whim, he decided to
check the Portland page
“The guy was nice enough
to put seven pictures on
there,” Lambert says
Thanks to the aftermar-
ket modi¿cations, Lambert
easily identi¿ed his bike in a
Portland-area post +e called
Brent in Lake Oswego, and
the of¿cer quickly collabo-
rated with two detectives to
set up a sting operation
The detectives posed as
buyers and set up a meeting
with the Craigslist seller, and
then Brent joined them in con-
fronting the seller and recov-
ering the bike
“The true detective in this
case is Chuck, because he
found the bike on Portland
Craigslist,” Brent says
According to Brent, the
case is still under investiga-
tion and is being referred to
the District Attorney’s Of¿ce
+e says he can’t comment on
whether the Craigslist seller
was the same person who
stole the bike in Seaside or
just an accomplice
Unfortunately for Lam-
bert, the aftermarket compo-
nents were all removed before
the sale meeting But the bike
itself was still in good condi-
tion, and the Lamberts drove
down from Port Orchard to
pick it up on 0arch
Brent and Lake Oswego
Police Chief Don John-
son were both on hand to
return the bike, and Johnson
awarded Brent the Chief’s
Coin for “going beyond” in
the performance of his duties
“Brent was very accom-
modating down (in Seaside),”
says Lambert “+e was the
nicest guy on the planet”
Drones: ‘We’re waiting for the ¿rst crash we know it’s going to happen’
Continued from Page 1A
“If I want to take this thing
to 0e[ico, I would have to ¿ll
out all the same forms if I was
going to take a real aircraft to
0e[ico,” Gage said
The Federal Aviation
Administration, which reg-
ulates US aircraft, recom-
mends users inform the air-
port or tower within 5 miles
“That’s not a requirement,
it’s a recommendation,” Gage
said
Gage said the 5-mile limit
“is pretty severe for small
airports”
Gearhart resident John
Dudley asked the commission
“to balance restrictions and
regulations with sane use of
the drones”
“Where we live in Little
Beach, there are a lot of short-
term rentals, and we’ve seen
a number of people who are
there for a day or two or three
with drones, and they’re in
and they’re out,” Dudley said
“They’re there to have fun, but
often they abuse the privileges
and don’t respect other peo-
ple or other things, that would
be doubly hard to control, to
advise those people”
FAA RECOMMENDATIONS
• Fly below 400 feet and remain clear of surrounding obstacles.
• Keep the aircraft within visual line of sight at all times.
• Remain well clear of and do not interfere with manned aircraft
operations.
• Don’t fly within 5 miles of an airport unless you contact the
airport and control tower before flying.
• Don’t fly near people or stadiums.
• Don’t fly an aircraft that weighs more than 55 pounds.
• Don’t be careless or reckless with your unmanned aircraft —
you could be fined for endangering people or other aircraft.
LEARN MORE
FAA recommendations: http://1.usa.gov/1p5OAvI
FAA hobby/recreational do’s and dont’s: http://1.usa.gov
/1LFNKzx
Know Before You Fly campaign: http://knowbeforeyoufly.org
Submitted Photo
+enderson pulled the con-
versation back “We need to
try to stick to what effects
they’re going to have at the air-
port,” he said
+enderson said he did not
want the airport committee
to end up “being a sounding
board for people’s complaints
of drones peeking in people’s
windows”
+e and other committee
members said they sought a
way to provide for drone users
to register their Àight plans
with the city
Seaside Public Works
Director Dale McDowell said
he didn’t want “people calling
me on a Sunday morning say-
ing I want to Ày my drone”
+e recommended those
calls be directed to police
dispatch
Committee member Bruce
Francis agreed police dispatch
would be more practical than
notifying the city or the airport
Dan Sealy of Brevin’s Fudge used his drone to take a picture of the Astoria Sunday Mar-
ket in 2014.
“That’s a very easy way
to overcome this problem
Because dispatch is there 24
hours a day That way you
know you’ve met the ‘bur-
den’ requirement, because it’s
logged in with an of¿cial,”
Francis said “If it ever comes
to the lawsuit — we’re wait-
ing for the ¿rst crash — and
we know it’s going to happen
— you’ve got it logged in”
PARTNERS FOR THE PAC
PRESENTS
Directed by
Sheila Shaffer
Seaside Municipal Airport
is a small paved airstrip It is
considered usable by light sin-
gle engine and twin aircraft
only The airport is used by
local pilots and “Àightseeing”
operations
+enderson said he wanted
to take a wait-and-see atti-
tude as pilots nationwide issue
policy
“Everybody’s kind of
wondering; they have all the
same questions,” +ender-
son said “I’m hoping some
sort of guidelines come out
of the Oregon Pilots Asso-
ciation that are Àe[ible and
have measures that would
apply to small- , medium- and
high-traf¿c airports, so cities
could know what to say We
really don’t have anything to
this point”
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