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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2017
Man detained by
ICE after speaking
with news reporters
Associated Press
Cannon Beach Fire & Rescue
A vessel washed ashore between Arcadia Beach and Hug Point Saturday morning. Oregon State Parks and the Coast
Guard are currently inspecting the condition.
Capsized boat washes ashore
Salvage crew to
remove vessel
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
A capsized boat washed
ashore Saturday morning about
8:30 a.m. between Arcadia
Beach and Hug Point.
Cannon Beach Fire Chief
Matt Benedict said the Coast
Guard arrived and insured there
were no people in need of help.
Not many details are known
yet about the vessel, but offi-
cials from Oregon State Parks
and the Coast Guard are evalu-
ating its condition and inspect-
ing it for any leaking fluids or
safety hazards, Benedict said.
Benedict said the vessel
looks like it has been in the
water for quite a while, and it
appears there is Japanese letter-
ing on the hull.
“There’s lots of vegetation
on the side. It appears it’s been
floating upside down for a long
time,” Benedict said. “If peo-
ple go down and look, just be
careful.”
Benedict said he was not
aware of health hazards, and
that Oregon State Parks is
working with a salvaging com-
pany to remove the vessel from
the beach.
Coast Guard medevacs crew member 200 miles offshore
The Daily Astorian
A Coast Guard air crew
medevaced a 50-year-old man
from a bulk carrier 200 miles
offshore Friday.
The captain of the Cypri-
ot-flagged bulk carrier Atlas
contacted watchstanders at the
13th District Command Cen-
ter in Seattle reporting a crew-
man was exhibiting symp-
toms of either a heart attack
or a stroke. At the time of the
request, the ship was more
than 300 miles offshore and en
route to Seattle.
The duty Coast Guard
flight surgeon at Sector
Columbia River in Warrenton
was briefed, concurred with
the need for a medevac and
requested the patient be placed
on oxygen until the flight crew
could arrive.
An MH-60 Jayhawk heli-
copter crew from Air Station
Astoria flew 200 miles out-
side the Columbia River’s
entrance, hoisted the crew-
man and transported him to
the Astoria Regional Airport,
where he was transferred to
Life Flight Network and flown
to Oregon Health & Science
University in Portland.
Coast Guard
An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Coast
Guard’s Air Station Astoria medevaced the crewman of a
cargo vessel from 200 miles offshore before transfering
him to Life Flight Network.
SEATTLE — A Mexican
man who spoke with report-
ers about his longtime girl-
friend’s immigration arrest
has now been detained him-
self, and he says agents told
him it’s because he was in the
newspaper.
Baltazar “Rosas” Aburto
Gutierrez spoke with the Chi-
nook Observer as well as The
Seattle Times after U.S. Immi-
gration and Customs Enforce-
ment detained his girlfriend
in June. He was identified
by only his nickname in the
Observer, and not by name in
the Times.
Aburto Gutierrez, 35, told
the Times in a phone inter-
view from the Northwest
Detention Center in Tacoma
that he was arrested last Mon-
day morning in Ocean Shores,
where he lives and works as a
clamdigger.
He said an agent told him:
“My supervisor asked me to
come find you because of what
appeared in the newspaper.”
ICE spokeswoman Lori
Haley told the Times that the
agency doesn’t retaliate as a
rule. But when pressed about
Aburto Gutierrez’s case, she
declined to comment, the
Times reported.
“ICE conducts targeted
immigration enforcement in
compliance with federal law
and agency policy, and at
times, exercises prosecutorial
discretion when the circum-
stances of a particular case
have extenuating factors like
the care of minor children or
an alien’s medical condition,”
the agency said in a statement
sent by Haley.
“This does not mean an
alien is exempt from future
immigration enforcement,” it
added.
Aburto Gutierrez has lived
in the U.S. for 18 years and
has children with his girl-
friend, Gladys Diaz. Diaz was
arrested when she took their
children to meet with some-
one who answered an ad she
placed to sell a homemade
piñata; it turned out to be a
sting.
Before the agents took her
away, Aburto Guttierez said,
they walked her home so she
could drop off her children
with him. Since he was also
in the country illegally, he
recalled, he asked: “Why you
don’t take us all?”
She has since been
deported and now lives near
Puerto Vallarta with their
children.
The family’s story was
featured by the newspapers
as examples of the effect of
ramped-up deportation efforts
under President Donald
Trump, which include remov-
ing longtime residents with
no apparent criminal records.
The Observer piece ran in
August, the Times piece in
early November.
Northwest
Immigrant
Rights Project legal director
Matt Adams said Aburto Guti-
errez might have grounds to
explore whether ICE violated
his free speech rights.
“It certainly is troubling,”
Adams said.
Aburto Gutierrez said he
cannot afford a lawyer or the
$25,000 bond needed to be
released from the detention
center. He said he has not yet
been given a court date.
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