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Serial Cat Burglar Sought
A suspect in six residential rob­
beries and sexual assaults involv­
ing women living alone has appar­
ently committed anothercrime. De­
tectives are investigating a seventh
incident that occurred early Friday
morning (May 10).
In this morning’s incident, as in
the previous six, the suspect en­
tered the residence o f a women
living alone. In this case, as in the
previous six, the suspect has en­
tered through an Unlocked or Un­
secured window or door.
Friday m orning’s robbery and
sexual assau It occurred in the Goose
Hollow neighborhood.
It is believed that the suspect was
S k e tc h o f serial c a t burglar.
armed, probably with a handgun.
The suspect is described as an
African-American male, light com-
plexion, 5’9" to 6 ’0", medium build
20 to md 30’s in age, with a round
face that is clean shaven. In some o f
the incidents the suspect has worn
ski mask and gloves. We would
certainly stress the importance o f
checking windows and doors to
make sure they are locked prior to
retiring for the evening.
Anyone with information on this
incidents is asked to contact Ser
géant Bill Carter o f the Sexual As
sault Detail at 823-0434. People
with information can also remain
anonymous if they wish by calling
Crime Stoppers at 823-HELP Re
ward money o f up to $ 1000 is avail
able through the program.
Crime Stoppers: Hate Crime
Portland Police Bureau Bias
Crime Detectives, in cooperation
with Crime Stoppers, are asking for
your help in solving an aggravated
assault case that appears to have
been committed simply because o f
the victim’s race.
Shortly after midnight Sunday,
April 14, black man was driving
alone in his car on 1-26 eastbound
near Highway 217, ju st east o f the
Sylvan exit, when a pickup truck
began to tailgate and tried to ram
him.
The pickup cut in front o f the
man’s vehicle and slammed on its
brakes to stop the him. The victim
pulled o ff the highway and the sus­
pect vehicle pulled o ff just ahead o f
him. As the man got out o f his car, he
was confronted by the driver o f the
pickup truck who said, “You are mine
now, n— r!”
The victim saw someone get out
o f the passenger’s side o f the pickup.
Shortly thereafter, he was struck from
behind and knocked unconscious.
The man awoke in a ambulance suf­
fering from serious injuries.
The driver o f the suspect vehicle
is described as a white male, mid-
3 0 ’s, 5,10"-6’0", 180-200 pounds,
with sandy hair that is just below the
collar, blue eyes, and a mustache
The suspect vehicle is described
as a full-size, 4-wheel drive pickup
in “poor” condition. The vehicle
silver or white and the paint is dull
or rusted.
There is a black stripe on the
tailgate where the name o f the make
appears. The vehicle also has an
extremely loud exhaust.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash
reward o f up to $ 1,000 for informa
tion that leads to an arrest in this
case or any unsolved felony crime
and you can remain anonymous.
Attempt Robbery/Attempt Murder
Portland Police Bureau detec­
tives are asking for your help in
solving an attempt robbery case
where shots were fired at the vic­
tim.
On Monday, April 1, 1996, at
approximately 1:00 o ’clock in the
morning, a 24-year-old male em­
ployee o f the New Copper Penny
Restaurant, 5932 SE 92nd Avenue,
drove to the U.S. Bank’s Eastport
Plaza branch, 4300 SE 82nd Ave­
nue, to drop the day’s receipts from
the restaurant into the night deposit.
Since he regularly made the night
deposit, the employee would vary
his time schedule so as not to set up
a predictable routine.
On this particular morning, as
the young man drove up to the night
deposit, he noticed that someone
had blocked the parking area next
to the night deposit with a large
concrete ashtray. Suspicious, the
young man did not stop. Instead, he
drove several times round the black
looking to see if anyone was in the
area.
Not seeing anyone, the young
S k e tc h o f serial c a t burglar.
man pulled onto the bank lot and had
just gotten out o f his vehicle, when he
was confronted by a subject armed
with a handgun, who apparently had
been hiding a short distance away.
The suspect ordered the young
man to drop the deposit bag. When
the young man did not comply, the
suspect shot at him.
The bullet, which narrowly missed
the victim, struck the driver’s door o f
his vehicle and shattered the glass.
The victim dove back into his
vehicle and started to accelerate rap­
idly away. As he did, the suspect
fired at least one time at the victim,
but did not hit him or the vehicle.
The suspect, who attempted to rob
the victim and shot at him, is de
scribed as a male white, 5 ’8", 170
pounds, wearing a gray sweatshirt
with a hood that was pulled over his
head, black ski mask, olive green
pants, and white tennis shoes.
At 11:11 pm, a little less than two
hours before the robbery attempt
the bank’s ATM camera photo
graphed a subject wearing a gray
sweatsuit, who was attempting to
conceal his faae, standing near the
area o f the night deposit.
Upon checking the night deposit
box, officers found that the lock had
been disabled, which would have
prohibited the victim from using it
From all appearances, with the
concrete astray used as a barricade
and the disabling ofthe night depos
it box, the robbery attempt had been
a planned set up.
Crime Stoppers is offeringa cash
reward o f up to $ 1,000 for informa
tion, reported to Crime Stoppers
that leads to an arrest in this case, or
any unsolved felony crime, and you
can remain anonymous. Call Crime
Stoppers at (503) 823-HELP.
The Theory Of The
Black Middle-Class
m P rof . Mt K inlen B i
in c o u rt and has not been seen
since. A felony no bail w arrant
for fa ilu re to a p p e a r was issued
M unsterm an is d e sc rib e d as i
4 1 -y e a r-o ld w hite m ale, 6 ’ I",
240 po u n d s, w ith brow n eyes
and black hair.
C rim e sto p p e rs is o ffe rin g a
cash rew ard o f up to $ 1,0 0 0 for
in fo rm atio n , re p o rte d to C rim e
S to p p e rs, that leads to an arrest
in this case or any un so lv ed fel­
ony crim es. C a lle rs w ill rem ain
an onym ous. C all 823-H E L P .
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dent, who called for police and med­
ical assistance.
The woman found shot to death in
Macleay Park on Tuesday morning
has been identified as Maggie Ann
Overlund, DOB 05-06-77. A photo
is available in my office.
A nyone with inform ation on
Veblin rides again (But are they,
ahem, ‘lower’ class? Must the entire
economic scale be written down?).
While that scenario had general
a p p lic a tio n a c ro ss th e b o a rd ,
inbetween there were some particu­
lar ramifications that materially af­
fected the African American popula­
tion; especially following World War
11. This could be inferred when I
wrote a week ago o f a Los Angeles
scene o f the early 1950’s, where I
had the unique vantage point o f pub­
lic accountant; an observer who had
both the strivers and the financing
mortgage brokers as clients.
“ ...that hard-driving, upward-mo­
bility crowd which took over the
ritzy Baldwin Hills suburb early in
the Black Revolution” . “A frenzied
mob o f over achievers”, a new black
middle-class o f executives, engi­
neers, administrators, lawyers, doc­
tors, scientists, etc; who didn’t just
inherit the swimming pools and ten­
nis courts that were abandoned in the
white flight promoted by enterpris­
ing real estate brokers - but went on
to convert a now-93% black elemen­
tary school to the best in the city: IQ,
math, reading Its been said before
but, again, “the best laid plans o f
mice and men often go wrong.” There
were many o f us young African
Americans with the skills and expe­
rience in both the white and black
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area o f finance, technology and eco­
nomics who thought the promised
land’ was at hand. How easy and
simple it would be to accomplish
what the prior generation had pro­
jected -- what, perhaps, only a Marcus
Garvey could have dreamed of.
What we failed to realize was that
the generation o f our fathers was also
very ambitious, cold and greedy we
thought - “realism” was their term:
“w e’re beyond the fancies o f youth.”
In any case, these o ld ’ fifty and sixty
year-old black economists, advertis­
ing men and assorted hustlers went to
General Motors, Ford, Pepsi Cola,
Schenley Distillers, Phillip Morris
and the like, and sold them’a multi­
billion dollar package (Part o f a col­
lege course I designed, “Black Eco­
nomic Experience.” Twelve million
blacks also were sold).
With open-ended financing these
“Black Market Men” as they were
called conducted all the market re­
search necessary to ascertain black
preferences in cars, whiskey, clothes,
cereals, tobaccos, colors, smells, etc
and hired away all the young black
professionals counted on by the black,
business ownership-minded. Ebony
and Jet were saturated with color ads
and “head hunters” were sent to black
colleges to recruit more liquor and
tobacco salesmen. Concluded next
week.
Portland C om m unity Design
invites you to join the
MLK MAIN STREET
MASTERPLAN SUMMIT
WORKGROUPS
Each workgroup meeting will focus on issues to revitalize MLK
Boulevard into a mainstreet. Guest panelists will join in discussions
of topics including mixed use development, the median strip, and
celebrating the spirit o f Albina.
All workgroup meetings will be held Thursdays at noon at Metro in
Room 370, 600 NE Grand Ave..Portland. Please bring your own
lunch; coffee will be provided.
For more information call Laurel Lyon at
Portland Community Design, 281 -8011.
Call 503-288-0033
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Macleay Park Homicide
Portland Police are investigating
the discovery o f a w om an’s body in
Macleay Park, near the 5300 block
NW Cornell Rd., as a homicide.
The body was discovered by a
pedestrian on one o f the trails in the
park at about 7:00 am Tuesday. The
pedestrian then told a nearby resi­
kt
Yes, Yes, Yes! I agree dear ladies
that the black woman is a very impor­
tant component o f this idea o f a new.
vibrant, if ill-defined, black middle-
class And for those who make the
error that I simply make the case for
a clone o f a white social stratum,
please recall my 1992 assessment.
Earlier this century, the concept o f
a middle-class (period!) was o f a
group chose income was at the mid­
dle or median o f all Americans, and
who, additionally, lived in a manner
and style often termed “genteel”
(whether real or fancied). I made the
further point that this life style o f a
“to-the-manor-born” gentry was the
behavior o f people who did not punch
time clocks, but employed others to
operate the economic units which
they owned: stores, shops, small
plants and farms; dictated agenda,
time, sequence.
Their “gentility” extended to ser­
vants and domestics in the homes,
live in or day workers. And. ofcourse,
the social amenities which included
(in a minor correspondence to the
real upper-crust) the sponsorship o f
many o f the arts and sciences. Now,
compare this classic cultural institu­
tion with today’s hilarious ofl-Broad-
way production provided by the
Madison Avenue advertising agen­
cies.
With the aid o f an enthusiastic
media, craftsm en, trades-people,
school teachers, car salesmen, post
office employees, etc. are persuaded
(conned) to become actors in a play
where many actually come to believe
that they are truly middle-class - and
are provided a matching trendy and
expensive consumerism agenda, with
credit cards to match. Thorstein
Child Abuse Suspect Sought
P o rtlan d P o lice B u reau D e­
tectiv es a ssig n ed to M ultnom ah
C ounty C h ild A b u se T eam in
c o o p e ra tio n w ith C rim e S to p ­
pers, are a sk in g for y o u r help in
locating and ap p re h e n d in g John
A ndrew M unsterm an.
M o n d a y , A p r il 8 , J o h n
M unste-rm an a p p e a re d in M u lt­
nom ah C o u n ty C o u rt to stan d
trial on m u ltip le c o u n ts o f rape
and sex abuse. T he v ictim s in
the case w ere 10 -y e a rs-o ld .
M unsterm an w as a “ no sh o w ”
Overlund, especially her activities
on Monday May 6th, is asked to call
either Sergeant Kerry Taylor Derek
Anderson at 823-0479. People with
information can also call the Crime
Stopper line at 823-HELP You can
rem ain anonym ous, and reward
money up to $1000 is available.
Last year's
H 00,000
winner Jeff
Hill and his
Officers Seize Five Pounds Of Cocaine
Portland Police officers seized
almost five pounds o f cocaine and
arrested one man while investigat­
ing a domestic disturbance Tues­
day night at a Northeast Portland
apartment.
Officer Mike Stradley and oth­
ers went to an apartment in the 1700
block o f NE 162nd Ave. after re­
ceiving a call from a resident about
a domestic fight. While at the loca­
tion the officers located drug para­
phernalia, then a large amount o f
crack cocaine and powder cocaine
Investigators from the Drug and
Vice Division were called in to assist
in the investigation. Seized by police
was four pounds o f powder cocaine
and 3 4 o f a pound o f crack cocaine.
Investigators say that the street value
o f the cocaine is over $100.000.
Charged in connection with the
seizure is Brain Vasquez, DOB 01-
11-75. Vasquez is being held at the
Justice Center Jail on charges o f
Manufacturing a Controlled Sub­
stance in the Second Degree, Distri­
bution o f a Controlled Substance in
I
the Second Degree, Possession o f a
Controlled Substance in the Second
Degree, First Degree Child Neglect,
and Menacing.
The Child Abuse charge stems
from the fact that a two year old boy
was also living at the address. ORS
163.547 makes it a Class B Felony
if a “person knowingly leaves the
chi Id, or al lows the chi Id to stay.. on
premises and in the immediate prox­
imity where controlled substances
are criminally delivered or manu­
factures...”.
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