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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
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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
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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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investigation.
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ities secured a warrant for
Woodson’s arrest. However,
by then, he had moved his RV
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a woman who works at a busi-
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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
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