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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016 Man linked to gun in Seaside Police killing pleads guilty “Eyewitnesses reported that on the night Sgt. Good- PORTLAND — A felon ing was killed, Mr. Ferry took whose pistol was used in the one of two firearms from Mr. February slaying of a Seaside Jones — who at the time was police sergeant will spend at passed out — and headed to least five years in prison after town,” Assistant U.S. Attor- pleading guilty to federal ney Gary Sussman said. charges Wednesday. When he awoke, Jones Jamie Lee Jones, 46, noticed the pistol was gone admitted to U.S. District along with some meth. “Mr. Jones Judge Michael Simon that he pos- became very angry,” Sussman sessed about 20 said. “There was grams of meth- an outburst in amphetamine which he punched with intent to sell one of his drug and had a fire- customers in the arm while selling face and fired a heroin. second firearm in Other charges the direction of are being dropped in a plea agree- Jamie Lee Jones several others.” Jones did not ment, includ- make a statement ing allegations he threatened witnesses to keep in court, other than answer- them from cooperating with ing questions from the judge. Prosecutors and defense investigators after Sgt. Jason Goodding was shot under- attorney Gerald Needham neath his ballistic vest while plan to jointly recommend trying to make an arrest in a sentence of five years on the gun charge. The gov- downtown Seaside. Goodding’s fellow officer ernment will recommend an returned fire, killing Phillip additional seven years on the Ferry, a 55-year-old transient drug charge. Needham will seek a lighter punishment. and drug user. Jones was born in Las Investigators linked the gun to Jones by happen- Vegas and has an extensive stance the morning after criminal record in Nevada, the Feb. 5 shooting. Police including convictions for responded to Jones’ house grand larceny auto, pos- on a noise disturbance and session of a stolen vehicle, noticed a single round of possession of a firearm by ammunition on the ground. It a felon, attempted posses- was the same brand used to sion of stolen property and escape. kill Goodding. Associated Press OPB skips criminal justice forum DA Marquis called one-sided Broadcaster regularly airs talks on radio By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian Oregon Public Broadcast- ing declined to air a City Club of Portland forum on man- datory minimum prison sen- tences that Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis had faulted as one-sided. The Friday Forum discus- sion last week involved pan- elists critical of Measure 11, the voter-approved initiative in 1994 that set mandatory mini- mum prison sentences for seri- ous crimes. OPB, which usually airs Fri- day Forum on the radio, chose not to broadcast the discussion after determining the talk did not meet editorial standards. “While the Friday Forum program included relevant and useful information about the effects of mandatory min- imum sentences on Oregon’s criminal justice system, in our view the panel lacked the range of viewpoints that would have provided a well-balanced discussion of the topic,” Morgan Holm, the chief content officer at OPB, said in a statement. The panel featured Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state lawmaker; Shannon Wight, deputy director of the Part- nership for Safety and Justice; David Rogers, the executive Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian District Attorney Josh Marquis criticized a Friday Forum panel discussion on mandatory prison sentences at the City Club of Portland as one-sided. director of the ACLU of Ore- gon; and Bobbin Singh, the executive director of the Ore- gon Justice Resource Center. In an email Wednesday, Holm said it is “extremely rare” for OPB not to air Friday Forum over content concerns. He said he had no contact with Marquis about the decision. Marquis had sent an email to OPB and other Port- land media before the forum, explaining that he and others at the Oregon District Attorneys Association tried to reach out to the City Club about balanc- ing the panel but were unsuc- cessful. The Willamette Week reported on Marquis’ concerns on Friday. Marquis said, however, that he did not urge OPB not to air the forum. “They have a really impres- sive history of being brokers of ideas,” the district attorney said of the City Club. But he called the forum on mandatory minimum sentences one-sided. “The Portland City Club is a private organization, if they want to have a pep rally to overturn Measure 11, that’s their right,” Marquis said Wednesday. “The only reason I got agitated about it was that they weren’t being intellectu- ally honest about it.” Chris Trejbal, the commu- nications director at the City Club, said the online descrip- Coast Guard helps five on stranded fishing boat The Daily Astorian MOCLIPS, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard removed five fishermen from a com- mercial fishing vessel that ran aground near Grenville Bay, north of Moclips, Washington, Wednesday morning. The crew of the Qua- laysquallum, a 58-foot, steel- hulled tribal fishing vessel home-ported in Westport, Wash- ington, contacted watchstand- ers at Sector Columbia River in Warrenton at 3:30 a.m.. The sector dispatched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Asto- ria to the scene. The Qua- laysquallum’s crew deployed the vessel’s anchor before being taken aboard by the helicopter crew and transferred to emer- gency medical services on the Quinault Indian Reservation. No injuries or pollution was reported. The vessel had less than 3,000 gallons of die- sel and 8,000 pounds of crab on board. Sector Columbia River’s Incident Management Division, which responds to waterborne pollution and haz- ards, will oversee the removal of any potential pollution, along with the Washington Department of Ecology. 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 Win a Phantom 4 Drone from DJI at our Raffl e! * tion of the forum was not clear enough and caused confusion. The City Club, though, did want to open the conversation with the impact of mandatory minimum sentences on com- munities of color and under- served communities. He said another forum with district attorneys and victims’ advo- cacy groups is planned for early next year. “Part of it, honestly, is City Club has in the last few years really been working hard to engage with communities of color in Portland,” Trejbal said. “We feel that their voice isn’t being very well heard in the conversations in the city and in the state, and so we really wanted to start this off from the perspective of, ‘How is this impacting those communities?’ “The communities that we don’t hear from all the time.” David Menschel, an attor- ney and activist in Portland, said OBP regularly broadcasts material from the perspective of powerful public officials. “They’re happy to give those people a platform and let them speak openly without providing contrasting voices,” he said. “But when people who are asking difficult questions about whether Oregon should, for instance, incarcerate more black people per capita than Louisiana, all of sudden ‘bal- ance’ becomes this very sacred principle.” Clatsop Post 12 Baked Chicken Dinner with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Veggies, Salad and Bread Friday Dec. 9 th 4 pm until gone 8. 00 $ 6PM “Karaoke Dave” ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION Clatsop Post 12 1132 Exchange Street 325-5771 Shop at our Silent Auction (Retails at $ 1400) *Drone raffl e drawing will be held at 3pm. 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