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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016 Tips lead to arrest of suspected child pornographer Arrested by Warrenton Police on warrant By NATALIE ST. JOHN EO Media Group SOUTH BEND, Wash. — A man who is suspected of possessing thousands of por- nographic images of children is in jail, due to a collaborative effort between law enforcement agencies in Warrenton and Kit- titas and Paciic counties in Washington, and tips from two eagle-eyed citizens who spot- ted him as he allegedly tried to leave the area. Warrenton Police arrested Casey Robert Woodson, 60, formerly of Ocean Park, in Sep- tember. He was later extradited to Paciic County. The local hunt for Woodson began in late July, when detec- tives in the Ellensburg Police Department asked Paciic County Sheriff’s Ofice for assistance. Ellensburg detec- tives were investigating an alle- gation that Woodson had taken sexually explicit photographs of a female minor there. “They thought he was living in our area, so we conducted an investigation to assist them and see where this guy lived. We went and found where he was staying, and it was in Ocean Park,” Sheriff’s Ofice Chief Criminal Deputy Pat Matlock said. With assistance from the Sheriff’s Ofice, the Ellensburg detectives served a search war- rant in July and searched Wood- son’s home for evidence of the alleged crime. Matlock said the detectives took several pieces of media and storage devices back to Ellensburg, but did not make an arrest. An unexpected discovery When experts at the Kit- titas County Sheriff’s Ofice State makes deal with insurance companies for more rural access By JEFF MANNING The Oregonian PORTLAND — More than 58,000 Oregon health insur- ance customers have been “orphaned” this year as carriers continue to struggle through the chaos wrought by the Afford- able Care Act. Amid sustained inancial losses, insurers are going out of business, leaving Oregon or abandoning entire swaths of the state. Thousands of Orego- nians who didn’t get cut loose by their insurers face more dou- ble-digit rate hikes. And it could have been worse: Regence, Providence and Moda, the three larg- est health insurers in the state, informed regulators this sum- mer of plans to stop serving the individual market — designed for the self-employed and oth- ers without access to group plans — in much of the state. The change would have forced as many as 81,000 insur- ance customers to ind new carriers. “Central Oregon would have been down to one carrier,” said Pat Allen, director of the Oregon Department of Con- sumer and Business Services. “Tillamook and Lincoln coun- ties too. We became immedi- ately concerned about that.” State regulators offered to make an unprecedented deal: They would reopen the just-completed rate-making process and allow the compa- nies additional rate increases if they retained their statewide presence. Regence and Providence agreed. Moda didn’t get a second rate increase. It stood by its decision to drop out of 10 coun- ties, walking away from nearly 20,000 customers. That’s on top of the 20,000 customers cast adrift in July when the Ore- gon Health Co-op went out of business and another 18,000 sent packing by Lifewise when it left the state altogether earlier this year. The frantic negotiations in July and August illustrate the ongoing havoc caused by the Affordable Care Act. The sig- nature achievement of the Obama administration meant 20 million previously unin- sured Americans got cover- age and access to health care. But the insurance industry still hasn’t igured out how to con- sistently make money in the new environment. Oregon carriers, now pro- hibited from rejecting cus- tomers with preexisting health problems, have lost millions of dollars. The state’s seven largest insurers collectively lost more than $31 million in the irst half of the year. Moda alone lost another $33 million in the period. ‘We got a call that this guy may have been up in OP looking for a bus pass or something.’ Chief Criminal Deputy Pat Matlock examined the devices, they did not ind images related to the original investiga- tion. However, according to a probable cause statement, they did allegedly ind a cache of more than 5,000 sexually explicit images of prepubes- cent girls. The Ellensburg police provided copies of the iles to Paciic County, so W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 COAST COMMUNITY RADIO KMUN 91.9FM music programs Call 503.325.0010 for more information www.CoastRadio.org Tips lead to arrest According to a staff mem- ber at the Warrenton Police Department, oficers arrested Woodson on the outstand- ing child porn warrant after a resident recognized him, and called police to report that he was on Southeast Anchor Street, near the Fred Meyer shopping center. Woodson was booked into Clatsop County Jail overnight, then moved to Paciic County Jail. At his arraignment, he was charged with possession of child pornography. He is being held on $100,000 bail. 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However, by then, he had moved his RV to a new, unknown location. On Rod Run Weekend, deputies began distribut- ing posters with Woodson’s photo and information. The effort paid off Sept. 19, when a woman who works at a busi- ness on Bay Avenue in Ocean Park called 911 to report that she thought Woodson had just stopped in at her workplace. She said a man who it Wood- son’s description had asked for information about how to get a bus to Sequim. “We got a call that this guy may have been up in OP look- ing for a bus pass or some- thing,” Matlock said. Local authorities quickly began searching for Woodson all over the Long Beach Penin- sula, but they didn’t have to search for long. “About an hour and a half later, we got a call from (Warrenton) saying they had I am Opal, the bearer of good fortune. 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