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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-
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The Daily Astorian
MOCLIPS, Wash. — The
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five fishermen from a com-
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Wednesday morning.
The crew of the Qua-
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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-
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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,
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Department of Ecology.
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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.”
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