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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2017
Pierce County Sheriff
An Amtrak train heading to Portland from Seattle derailed.
Amtrak: Train derails
south of Seattle onto I-5
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ger trains from a route along
Puget Sound that’s bogged
down by curves, single-track
tunnels and freight traffic.
It left Seattle around 6 a.m.,
according to an Amtrak sched-
ule, and was due in Portland
about 3 1/2 hours later.
All southbound lanes of
I-5 were closed south of Joint
Base Lewis-McChord, and
motorists were being warned
to avoid the area.
The train was going 81.1
mph moments before the
derailment, according to tran-
sitdocs.com, a website that
maps Amtrak train locations
and speeds using data from the
railroad’s train tracker app.
The maximum speed along
the stretch of track, known as
Point Defiance Bypass, is 79
mph, according to informa-
tion about the project posted
online by the Washington State
Department of Transportation.
The mayor of Lakewood,
Washington, a city along the
route, predicted a deadly crash.
But Don Anderson thought it’d
involve a fast-moving train hit-
ting a car or pedestrian at a
crossing.
Associated Press writers
Sally Ho and Phuong Le in
Seattle and Michael Sisak in
Philadelphia contributed to
this report.
Johnson: ‘I’ve learned a
lot of skills I would not
have learned otherwise.’
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worked in it for almost half my
life,” Johnson said. “I decided
I’ve got to give back to the
community with my extra
time.”
About seven years ago, her
longtime friend Elaine Trucke,
the museum’s executive direc-
tor, encouraged Johnson to
volunteer at the museum.
“I had no idea the museum
existed, and the more I was
there, the more I became pas-
sionate about it,” she said.
On top of that, Johnson
took on Meals on Wheels,
summer reading programs and
the Lunch Buddy program —
a countywide mentorship pro-
gram for students in elemen-
tary through middle school.
While she’s worked with a
number of kids, one girl in par-
ticular made an impact.
“I had a girl in fourth grade
who was very difficult to deal
with when I first met her. At
first she was shy, didn’t want
anything to do with me,” John-
son said. “Now she’s blos-
somed, and does really well
in school. When I met her she
really hated school. Now she’s
going into high school on the
honor roll. It’s feels like more
than just mentoring, I guess.”
Her love for volunteering
served as an advantage when
the outreach coordinator posi-
tion opened up at the museum,
where a large part of her job is
recruiting and managing the
history center’s volunteers.
And recruiting those volun-
teers becomes even more cru-
cial when Cottage and Garden
Tour season rolls around.
“There’s just three of us (at
the museum), and we do it by
ourselves. Just trying to get
volunteers and homeowners to
be a part is a full-time job in
itself,” Johnson said.
With almost no prior event
planning experience, Johnson
learned many of the skills, like
keeping track of all the details,
calling homeowners, organiz-
ing catering and even baking
some of the goodies offered at
the event.
“At the museum I’ve
learned a lot of skills I would
not have learned otherwise.
I have nonprofit experience.
Event planning. Maintenance
experience. Even baking expe-
rience,” she laughed.
But Johnson does take time
to herself. When she’s not at
the museum, she likes to go to
concerts and looks forward to
Seaside’s Barbershop Quartet
festival. She’s an avid Portland
Trail Blazers fan, and when all
else fails, an evening at home
with her cat is where she likes
to be.
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A Portland hotelier will take over the Astoria Riverwalk Inn after a lawsuit.
Takeover: Param must invest $200,000 in hotel
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current operator, Astoria Hos-
pitality Ventures, whose
owner is a brother-in-law of
a former Port commissioner.
The owner of Hospitality
Ventures recently secured a
lease on the adjacent Chinook
Building, with plans of creat-
ing a tourist district between
the commercial complex and
the hotel.
A jury originally awarded
Param $4 million in dam-
ages against the Port, includ-
ing more than $200,000 for
breach of contract and nearly
$3.8 million for fraud. McIn-
tosh later cut the damages to
less than $1 million, agreeing
with the Port that fraud claims
against the agency are limited
to $682,800 by the Oregon
Tort Claims Act.
When Param takes over
the hotel, the company would
pay $580,000 into an escrow
account. The Port would
receive $273,180 for back-
due rent and revenue shar-
ing, the city $115,858 for
lodging taxes and the county
$4,633 for property taxes.
The remainder — $186,327
— would go to Smithart, who
also owes significant amounts
in taxes and has relocated to
New York.
Param must also make
good on a promise to invest
$200,000 in the hotel during
its initial lease. The com-
pany will receive credit for
Smithart’s investments in the
property, and will work with
the Port to calculate progress
toward the total.
McIntosh, who gave
Param the choice between
damages or the lease as the
Port initially promised, dis-
missed all other claims against
the Port and Port Executive
Director Jim Knight. In a pre-
vious objection to Param’s
judgment plan, Luke Reese,
the Port’s attorney, said the
agency intends to file a notice
of appeal after the judgment
was filed.
The Port must ensure the
hotel is kept in good con-
dition for Param’s takeover
in November, and that the
company receives any reve-
nue from room reservations
after its lease starts. Param
may inspect the property
once every two months with
72 hours’ notice before the
takeover.
Assault: Men facing rape and voyeurism charges
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On the night of Sept. 1,
Zamora and Gutierrez went to
a going-away party, accord-
ing to records filed in Pacific
County Superior Court.
Zamora’s wife learned of
the suspected rape the fol-
lowing morning, when she
took Zamora’s phone away
from the couple’s daughter,
who was playing with it. She
saw a text message exchange
in which Zamora allegedly
asked Gutierrez if the uniden-
tified victim was going to
say he raped her. Gutierrez
allegedly replied that the vic-
tim wouldn’t remember.
Video evidence
Coast Guard Investigator
Brandon Trinidad began an
investigation shortly after the
incident occurred, and assisted
Pacific County Detective Ryan
Tully with his investigation.
Trinidad learned that sev-
eral Coast Guard members
received a Snapchat video
from Gutierrez, in which
Zamora appeared to be hav-
ing sex with a woman who
was lying face down on a bed,
according to Tully’s report.
In late September, Tully
served a warrant for access to
Gutierrez’s Snapchat account.
Among the files he received
were two videos from the
night of the party. In the first
video, Zamora appeared to be
having sex with a “motion-
less” naked woman. Her head
was hanging over the edge of
the bed, and one of her arms
was pinned underneath her
body.
“Zamora looks back at the
camera and appears to be smil-
ing,” Tully wrote in his report.
In the second video,
Zamora again appeared to be
having sex with the “com-
pletely motionless” woman,
and making crude comments
about her body.
The alleged victim told
investigators she met Gutier-
rez a couple of weeks before
the party. She went to the party
expecting to have consen-
sual sex with Gutierrez later
that night, but did not plan on
having sex with anyone else,
much less being recorded, she
said.
According to court filings,
Zamora drank less than the
other two, so after the party,
he drove them to a house on
Sandridge Road in the vic-
tim’s car.
In a late October interview
in Portland, Zamora told the
investigators he saw Gutierrez
having sex with the victim in
the bedroom later that night.
When Gutierrez finished, he
allegedly handed Zamora a
condom and told him it was
his turn.
Zamora claimed the sex
was consensual. However,
there were inconsistencies in
his story. He described using
a different sexual position
than the one shown in the vid-
eos, and said the victim was
conscious.
At some point, Zamora
said, Gutierrez entered the
bedroom and appeared to
be taking a photo or video.
Zamora claimed he asked
the victim, “Are you feeling
this?” When she said ‘No,’
they stopped having sex.
The victim told the inves-
tigators she remembered hav-
ing sex with Gutierrez, but
did not recall having sex
with Zamora, or being photo-
graphed or recorded.
Fuzzy memories
Zamora initially “down-
played his level of intoxi-
cation, stating he only had
a couple of drinks,” accord-
ing to the report. He insisted
the sex was consensual, and
that he knew the victim had
the mental capacity to con-
sent to sex because she spoke
with him during the encoun-
ter. However, he allegedly
changed his story somewhat
after Trinidad confronted him
with a still photo taken from
the Snapchat video, and said
he had been more intoxi-
cated than he’d previously
claimed to be. According to
the report, Zamora then said
he didn’t remember all of the
details, and asked to end the
interview.
Later, Tully and Trinidad
interviewed the alleged victim
together. She said “she didn’t
remember anything after the
party until the next morning
when she woke up.” When
shown a photo, she pointed
out that her body position was
too limp and unnatural to be
that of a conscious person.
She said she did not know
she was being filmed, and
would not have consented to
being filmed even if Gutierrez
had asked for permission.
Brief careers
According to Read, Guti-
errez was a fireman in the
engineering department at
Station Cape Disappoint-
ment. It was his first duty sta-
tion after boot camp, Read
said. He has been in the Coast
Guard for one year and two
months. His duties included
answering and documenting
radio calls and serving as a
crewmember on a boat.
Zamora was a seaman who
assisted with upkeep of ves-
sels, Read said. Like Guti-
errez, he had only served at
Station Cape D before the
investigation. He has been in
the Coast Guard for one year
and four months.
Although both men are
still officially listed as being
assigned to the Ilwaco sta-
tion, they were moved to new
assignments when the inves-
tigation began, Read said.
Gutierrez was moved to Sec-
tor Columbia River in War-
renton. Zamora was moved to
Base Seattle.
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