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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 6, 2017
Hammond man gets six years for sexual abuse
Miller was
sentenced after
pleading guilty
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
A Hammond man was sen-
tenced Wednesday to more
than six years in prison for sex-
ually abusing a teenage girl.
Gregory Miller, 63, pleaded
guilty in June to three counts
of first-degree sex abuse. He
will serve the mandatory mini-
mum 75 months in prison con-
currently for each count.
Miller
was
origi-
nally indicted
in February
on 16 counts
of first-de-
gree
sex
abuse along Gregory Miller
with individ-
ual counts of luring a minor,
attempting to use a child in a
display of sexually explicit
conduct, private indecency
and first-degree online sexual
corruption.
He allegedly touched the
girl inappropriately multiple
times from January to Octo-
ber of last year and also tex-
ted her an intimate photo of
himself. Miller allegedly kept
more than 300 explicit pictures
of the victim as well.
Though all the charges
stemmed from alleged inci-
dents in 2016, the girl said at
the sentencing hearing Wednes-
day that she had lived in daily
fear of Miller since 2011. After
reaching a deal with the Clat-
sop County District Attorney’s
Office in June, he pleaded guilty
to three incidents that took place
in April, May and June.
Before her daughter spoke,
the victim’s mother presented
a statement directed to Miller.
“I think you’re truly in
denial, or at least I hope you
are,” the mother said. “I can’t
imagine why you would keep
doing what you did, knowing it
was sick and wrong. Our fam-
ily is destroyed. You’re lucky
for the sentence you received
compared to what you could
have gotten.”
She said she also hopes
Miller, who allegedly drank
an average of 15 beers a day
before his arrest, seeks treat-
ment for alcohol abuse while
in prison. While saying she
was sickened by the photos
and other facts about the case,
the mother still forgave Miller.
“I’m sorry that you’ve
Astoria man identified in fatal crash
The Daily Astorian
The pedestrian hit and
killed by a car in Seaside early
Tuesday morning has been
identified as an Astoria man.
Jimmy Lee Mehrer, 32,
was struck on U.S. Highway
101 just after 3 a.m. near Air-
port Road by a man driving a
1998 Ford Explorer. Friends
of Mehrer at the scene said
he was intoxicated and lying
down in the road prior to the
crash, according to Oregon
State Police.
The Explorer was headed
south on the highway when
the driver noticed Mehrer in
the road. Skid marks on the
road indicate he tried to stop
before hitting the man, accord-
ing to Oregon State Police.
Both lanes were closed
until around 7 a.m., and the
road was reopened to all traf-
fic at around 10 a.m.
The state Department of
Environmental Quality issued
an $825 civil penalty to Asto-
ria Animal Aid for continuing to
operate an incinerator after fail-
ing to renew an expired basic air
containment discharge permit.
The business, at 35109
U.S. Highway 101 Business,
was also fined for failing to
require the incinerator always
be operated under the direc-
tion of someone with the proper
training.
“The state issued a penalty
because the particulate matter
from incinerators is a pollut-
ant that can contribute to respi-
ratory distress for some mem-
bers of the public and create a
nuisance,” the Department of
Environmental Quality said in
a release. “The basic air per-
mit contains conditions to help
ensure particulate emissions
and odors do not become an
environmental or public health
concern.”
The state said Astoria Ani-
mal Aid has made efforts to
gain a new permit and imple-
ment new training, which was
considered when determining
the amount of the penalty.
OBITUARIES
Roy Terrance Wheatley Sr.
Warrenton
Feb. 18, 1929 — July 1, 2017
Roy Terrance Wheatley Sr. was the oldest of people in need.
seven children born to Lee Roy Wheatley and
His love of hunting and fishing at Halfway,
Sarah Harshberger in Caldwell, Idaho, on Feb. Oregon, started in 1967 in Hells Canyon, sleep-
18, 1929.
ing in a tent or a car. He returned almost every
He attended school in Warrenton,
year after that.
But what he loved doing most was
Oregon. After completing school, he
the 20 years he served on the Warren-
joined the U.S. Army during World
ton Fire Department and in the latter
War II and was sent to Tokyo, Japan,
years as assistant fire chief.
and served as a security guard trans-
He is survived by his bride, Bobbi
porting Gen. Hideki Tojo in the war
Kron-Wheatley, and his children,
crimes trials.
Joy Mazeikas, Jan Osterby (Larry),
After his military tour, he returned
Roy T. Wheatley Jr. and Jody Wick-
to Warrenton, married and started his
ett; stepchildren Sherri, Jerry, Deb-
family. He worked in Clatsop County
bie, Darcell, Lisa, Cathy, Phil, David,
at Crown Zellerbach as a logger and
Roy Terrance
Randy, Mark and Patti; grandchil-
mechanic for many years, but also
Wheatley Sr.
dren Tara, Alissa, Tracy, Michael,
worked building roads, as a com-
Joshua, Lucas, Amanda, Lana and
mercial fisherman and crabber, saw
miller, ran the Shell gas station in Warrenton great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at Caldwell’s
and served as the first emergency medical tech-
Luce-Layton Mortuary at 11 a.m. Saturday July
nician in Clatsop County.
Roy was involved in many volunteer activ- 8, 2017. Followed by a Warrenton Police and
ities. He was a Boy Scout leader and facili- Fire Department escort to Ocean View Ceme-
tated the construction of the Spruce Run Camp- tery for graveside services.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
ground. He was an active member of Habitat for
Humanity, Warrenton Senior Meals on Wheels the Warrenton Volunteer Fire Department, 225
board member, Relay for Life and several S. Main Ave., Warrenton, OR 97146.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in
church affiliations.
He was always busy gathering and trans- charge of arrangements. Please sign our online
porting food donations and discretely helpful to guest book at CaldwellsMortuary.com
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Two-vehicle accident stalls
traffic on US Highway 26
Vehicle pulling
trailer appears
to lose control
A Ford Excursion pulling
a trailer collided with a sil-
ver Lexus about 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday on U.S. High-
way 26 near Elsie, closing
both lanes to traffic for about
an hour.
Both vehicles suffered
major damages, but no inju-
ries were reported, Oregon
State Trooper Andrew Morgan
said. The Redmond driver of
the Ford Excursion appeared
to lose control of the trailer
going eastbound, Morgan said.
When the driver attempted
to slow down, the Excursion
and trailer slid and hit a ditch
on the right side of the road
before overturning across the
highway, hitting the Lexus
Brenna Visser/The Daily Astorian
Sue Hone watches as her car is towed after a collision
with another vehicle and trailer on Highway 26 Wednes-
day morning.
driving in the westbound lane.
Sue Hone, who is from
England, was driving the
Lexus and said she saw the
trailer fishtailing before she
was hit.
“It could have been an
awful lot worse,” Hone said.
Morgan said the cause of
the crash is still under inves-
tigation but that there was no
evidence to support anything
criminal.
As of 11:30 a.m., the
Elsie-Vinemaple Fire Protec-
tion District helped get both
vehicles towed to reopen the
highway.
Legislature passes bill requiring
coverage of abortion at no cost
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon will
soon require insurers to cover
specific health services, includ-
ing abortions, at no out-of-
pocket cost to patients.
House Bill 3391, approved
by the state Senate Wednes-
day, now heads to Gov. Kate
Brown’s desk.
The legislation would pro-
hibit plans from imposing
a deductible, coinsurance,
copayment or other cost-shar-
ing requirements on spe-
cific services, such as preven-
tive reproductive health care,
contraception and postnatal
services.
The House passed the bill
after hours of debate Saturday,
repeated briefly in the Senate
Wednesday.
One point of contention: A
provision that would have the
state separately provide abor-
tion coverage for women who
have health insurance through
religious employers exempted
from covering the service in
their health benefit plans.
Under the bill, the Oregon
Health Authority will develop
a program with the Depart-
ment of Consumer and Busi-
ness Services to cover abor-
tion services for employees
with those plans.
The bill sets aside about
$10 million in the next two
years for the Oregon Health
Authority to administer the
provisions of the bill. The bill
also would guarantee cover-
age of the specified services
for Oregon residents regard-
less of immigration status or
gender identity.
Senate Democrats said in
a statement that the bill would
expand access to contraception
for over 18,000 Oregonians.
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ASTORIAN
Miller, a retired member of
the U.S. Coast Guard, said he
was “terribly, terribly sorry”
for what he had done.
“I have been praying a lot,”
he said. “I hope they can find it
in their hearts some day to for-
give me.”
Circuit Court Judge Cindee
Matyas said she hoped Miller
would take full advantage of
treatment options during and
after his prison sentence as
part of his restitution to the
victim and her mother.
“Their suffering, their transi-
tions won’t have to be in vain,”
Matyas said. “You started this,
so you have to make it right.”
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
Astoria Animal Aid fined over incinerator
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given in to this fantasy,” she
said. “I’m not out to ruin you.”
The teenage girl said she
doesn’t know if or when she
will be able to forgive Miller,
but she has developed a stron-
ger relationship with her
mother that has made her life
happier and less stressful the
past few months.
“You are sick,” the girl said
to Miller. “I will always be
scared around you. It will take
me a long time to ever trust a
man.”
Deputy District Attorney
Dawn Buzzard said that, with
the help of her mother, the girl
is turning her life around.
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