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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 Lake Stevens woman faces animal cruelty charges Holly Sanders Alisha Lowenberg Clarissa Moore Sean Navarre Howard Lefstein Travis Carow Six arrested in Seaside drug bust Meth, heroin found The Daily Astorian Six people were arrested in Seaside early Tuesday morn- ing on drug trafficking charges. Authorities found metham- phetamine, heroin, prescrip- tion pills, digital scales, pack- aging materials and a handgun at a residence in the 222 Third Ave. apartment complex. Howard Lefstein, 41; Clar- issa Moore, 28; Sean Navarre, 42; Holly Sanders, 30; Alisha Lowenberg, 29; and Travis Carow, 39, were all arrested. Daniel Greenfield, 28; Court- ney Betzer, 28; and Andrew Paulson, 36, were cited and released for frequenting a place where controlled sub- stances are used. The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office had been leading the drug traffick- ing investigation and made the arrests with help from the Seaside Police Depart- ment. Additional charges may follow as the investiga- tion continues. The Daily Astorian Hoarding more than 40 cats in her car, a Washington state woman was arrested Monday night in Warrenton. Kathryn St. Clare, 58, of Lake Stevens, was arrested for two warrants — each carrying 10 counts of ani- mal cruelty in Washington — as well as 30 new animal neglect charges. An officer spotted her vehicle in the Fred Meyer parking lot off U.S. High- way 101 just after 6:30 p.m. Police search for suspect with forged traveler’s checks By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian North Coast businesses fell victim to multiple forged trav- eler’s checks earlier this month. Police are searching for a sus- pect who passed three checks — in Astoria, Cannon Beach and Rockaway Beach — on April 7. The affected businesses lost $300. The Astoria Police Depart- ment sent photos of a suspect along to law enforcement agen- cies on the Oregon and north- west California coasts. The suspect is described as a white male, roughly 60 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall with a stocky build. He has long blonde hair, blue eyes, a mole near his nose and was last seen wearing an orange sweater. A boost in tourism the past Submitted Photo North Coast businesses fell victim to forged traveler’s checks. few weeks may have led to the crimes, Police Chief Brad John- ston said. “When our retailers are busy is when we get a lot of the forger- ies,” he said. “It’s not something that can easily be identified.” Businesses can avoid accept- State Senate passes bill that sets deadlines for public records requests By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — The state Sen- ate has passed a bill to set a deadline for public bodies to respond to public records requests. If passed by the House, the deadline would set a precedent in Oregon, where government entities effectively have an unlimited time to respond to requests. Oregon is one of the few states without a deadline. “This is a transparency and government accountability bill that puts a time frame on how quickly government agen- cies have to respond to pub- lic records requests,” said state Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Springfield. “It requires a timely response so that our government records are open to the public without unreasonable delays.” The legislations also can help prevent “the tactic of sit- ting on public records requests for a long period of time to avoid disclosing something,” Beyer said. Senate Bill 481, a product of a task force convened by Attorney General Ellen Rosen- blum, passed by a 29-0 vote. The bill requires public bodies to respond to requests within five days and furnish public records within at least 10 days, or provide a written statement explaining when the request will be fulfilled. The legislation also charges the Attorney General’s Office with cataloguing the state’s more than 500 exemptions to the public records law, so it can be searched by the public. “During more than a year of task force meetings and lis- tening sessions with journal- ists, advocates and the public we heard loud and clear that our public records laws are in need of reform. This bill addresses the issue of lack of timely access to records and begins to address the confu- sion created by 40 years of piecemeal exemptions to laws originally intended to pro- mote transparency,” Rosen- blum said in a statement. Vague language in existing law puts no enforceable dead- line on public bodies to dis- close records. Under the bill, if an agency fails to respond by the deadline, it is considered a denial, and the requestor may appeal the denial to the Attor- ney General’s Office. The law states such gov- ernment entities must respond to requests “as soon as prac- ticable without unreasonable delay.” Administrative changes ordered by Gov. Kate Brown require agencies to have a written protocol for those seeking to access records. ing forged checks by watch- ing customers sign them and looking for signs of tamper- ing or signature inconsis- tencies. Authentic traveler’s checks will have features such as a sharply defined image, a watermark under the Master- Card goddess when held up to the light and a background that disappears when touched by a wet finger. Businesses can call 800-223- 7373 to verify traveler’s checks. Anyone who may have received one of these checks or has infor- mation about the suspect is encouraged to contact Sgt. Chris McNeary at 503-325-4411 or cmcneary@astoria.or.us. conceal carry permit classes It matched the description of a car authorities had been trying to locate for about a month. 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