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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016
Astoria robbery suspect arraigned
Had cocaine
when booked
into jail
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
An 18-year-old home-
less man who is accused of
attempting to rob another
man on the Astoria River-
walk in May was arraigned
Tuesday in Clatsop County
Circuit Court.
Jeremy Lee Morinville
pleaded not guilty to sec-
ond-degree robbery, men-
acing, unlawful deliv-
ery of cocaine,
The attempted
unlawful posses-
robbery occurred
sion of cocaine
on the riverwalk
and
supplying
behind
Asto-
contraband.
ria
Warehous-
Clatsop County
ing.
Morinville
Jail staff discov-
reportedly threat-
ered the cocaine
ened that he had
in
Morinville’s
a gun and said he
possession while
wanted everything
being booked. He
out of the man’s
Jeremy Lee
never declared the
pockets. The man,
Morinville
cocaine when he
who did not know
was booked, and according Morinville, fought back and
to the indictment, unlaw- called police. Morinville
fully and knowingly intro- did not get away with any
duced it into the jail.
items or money.
The amount was consid-
Astoria Police responded
ered more than for personal to the scene and arrested
use, according to police.
Morinville in the area about
15 minutes later.
The victim said he saw
something in Morinville’s
hand, believed to be a gun.
A gun was never found
at the scene, according to
police.
Morinville was on a con-
ditional release agreement
from jail at the time. He
pleaded not guilty in March
to resisting arrest, interfer-
ing with a peace officer and
disorderly conduct after an
incident in Seaside.
He is due back in court
next month for an early
resolution
conference.
He remains in custody on
$250,000 bail.
Coast Guard rescues Seattle’s ‘man
in tree’ sent to
woman stranded
psychiatric hospital
near Manzanita
Associated Press
The Daily Astorian
MANZANITA — The
crew of a U.S. Coast Guard
Jayhawk helicopter medeva-
ced a 52-year-old woman who
fell down a canyon 10 miles
east of Manzanita Monday.
Watchstanders at Sector
Columbia River received a
request for help from the Tilla-
mook County Sheriff’s Ofice
Monday night to help retrieve a
woman who had been stranded
for more than a day.
An MH-60 Jayhawk heli-
copter from Air Station Astoria
reached the woman by 7 p.m.,
hoisted her out of the canyon
and transferred her to staff at
Tillamook Regional Medical
Center. There were no serious
injuries reported.
“In any emergency situa-
tion, time plays a crucial role
as exhaustion and exposure to
the elements take their toll,”
said Lt. Kristen Caldwell,
command duty oficer at Sec-
tor Columbia River. “This was
an outstanding effort on behalf
of our crews and our partner
agencies to ensure this woman
got the care she needed.”
SEATTLE — A man who
spent 25 hours high atop a
sequoia tree in downtown
Seattle in March has been
found incompetent to stand
trial on a malicious mischief
charge.
Cody Lee Miller has been
held on $50,000 bail since he
climbed the tree and ignored
police efforts to coax him
down, throwing branches
and apples at responders,
before climbing down.
KOMO-TV
reported
Miller will be sent to the
state’s largest psychiatric
hospital for a 45-day eval-
uation with another compe-
tency hearing set for July.
The drama sparked
intense interest on social
media, with new Twitter
accounts and the hashtag
#ManInTree trending.
Miller’s mother, Lisa
Gossett of Wasilla, Alaska,
said previously the fam-
ily has tried to get him
help for mental illness but
was told there was nothing
anyone could do unless he
posed a danger to himself
or others.
Two die in capsizing at Alaska’s Glacier Bay park
By DAN JOLING
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — A
father and son on an Alaska
fishing trip died Monday
when their boat overturned
in Glacier Bay National
Park.
Four others on the
21-foot aluminum boat were
rescued, including one per-
son who suffered severe
hypothermia and was flown
to a hospital in Juneau.
Tom VandenBerg, chief
of interpretation for the
park, listed the men who
died as Larry Roger McWil-
liams, 75, and Gary Roger
McWilliams, 48. Their
hometowns were not imme-
diately available. The elder
McWilliams carried an Ore-
gon driver’s license, and the
younger man was from Cal-
ifornia, Vandenberg said.
The boat was privately
owned, VandenBerg said.
He did not know the owner.
The cause of the capsiz-
ing also was a mystery. The
weather was clear and calm
in the area where the boat
was fishing.
The boat was near shore
on the back side of an
island, away from a main
channel. One person man-
aged to swim to shore and
flag down a passing boat,
VandenBerg said.
“That was the only way
they were seen,” he said.
VandenBerg did not
know how long the boat’s
occupants were in the water.
The boat flipped about
10 miles from park head-
quarters near Strawberry
Island. When the agency
received word of the capsiz-
ing, large and small vessels
headed to the site to search
for people in the water, the
agency said in a release.
A charter boat operator,
Jim Kearns, found two peo-
ple in the water and the per-
son who swam to Straw-
berry Island. They were
treated for mild hypother-
mia and released.
A Park Service research
vessel picked up the person
who suffered severe hypo-
thermia. The person was
transported to the commu-
nity of Gustavus and flown
by Coast Guard helicop-
ter to Juneau. The person
was expected to be released
Tuesday.
The crew of a tour ves-
sel, the Wilderness Dis-
coverer, pulled the McWil-
liams’ from the water.
Onboard emergency med-
ical technicians and park
rangers attempted CPR, but
they could not be revived,
the Park Service said.
The park is about 75
miles west of Juneau.
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ILWACO, Wash. — A
police raid at an apartment
attached to the Sea Hag Bar
and Grill in May resulted in
the arrest of Fidan Berani,
26, on suspicion of multiple
crimes, including drug pos-
session, unlawful posses-
sion of firearms, domestic
violence assault and unlaw-
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According to probable
cause reports and other pub-
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officers decided to search
the building at 201 First
Ave. in Ilwaco after a teen-
age girl reported that Berani
had allegedly assaulted her.
The apartment building and
bar are owned by members
of the Berani family.
According
to
police
reports, Berani allegedly hit,
choked and verbally abused
the girl, locked her in his room
and did not allow her to leave,
even after she attempted to
escape through a window.
Police sought a war-
rant to search the property
for evidence related to the
alleged assault, as well as
an arrest warrant for Berani.
On May 17, two police
officers spotted Berani driv-
ing his white Mercedes
south on Sandridge Road.
According to the police
report, Berani allegedly sped
toward Ilwaco and pulled
into the garage at his home
before police could catch up
with him. Additional police
were called to the scene, and
eventually, Berani’s brother
persuaded him to come out
of the home. Berani was
arrested and booked into
Pacific County Jail.
Officers
subsequently
executed the search war-
rant. In Berani’s bedroom,
the officers allegedly dis-
covered plastic bags con-
taining a small number of
pills, including oxycodone,
and “several parts belong-
ing to an assortment of fire-
arms,” as well as a 5.7 cal-
iber cartridge and three
holsters. According to
police, Berani is a convicted
felon, and is not allowed to
possess firearms.
The officers asked a
judge to amend the search
warrant to include fire-
arms, drugs and drug para-
phernalia. Further search-
ing allegedly uncovered two
bags of suspected cocaine.
A field test of the pow-
der came back positive for
cocaine. Another container
allegedly held several small
bags filled with small quan-
tities of pills, some of which
were identified as clonaze-
pam, an addictive anti-anx-
iety drug that is sometimes
used recreationally.
In a common area, offi-
cers found a large black
safe.
Initially,
Florent
Berani reportedly declined
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the safe belonged to him,
and no one else had access
to it. Eventually, he agreed
to open the safe, revealing
two rifles, a pump-action
shotgun and two short-bar-
relled shotguns and a Colt
revolver, as well as a duffel
bag of assorted ammunition.
Florent Berani allegedly
told officers that all of the
guns and bullets belonged
to Fidan Berani, who had
turned them over to him for
safe-keeping. Police confis-
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As of Friday, Berani
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