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Volume X X V II, Number XI
JULY 22, 199X
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Disturbance At The Donald E. Long Juvenile Facility
There was a disturbance at the Donald
E. Long Juvenile facility on July 15,1998
involving incarcerated Juveniles housed
under the authority o f the Oregon Youth
Authority. Officers from the Multnomah
County Sheriff's Office, the Portland Po
lice Bureau and the Oregon State Police
responded to the facility at approximately
7:30 a.m.
The facility is a Multnomah County
owned juvenile corrections facility that is
located in the East Precinct area o f Port
land. The S h e riffs Office provides secu
rity and Enforcement for the facility and
investigates crimes committed there. The
area in which the incident occurred is
leased from the county, by the State, and
houses juveniles who are under the O r
egon Youth Authority. The section is
staffed by state o f Oregon Youth Author
ity staff. There were fourteen youth being
detained in the section in which the inci
dent occurred.
During the breakfast time in this section
a detainee was asked to quite causing a
verbal disruption at which pint the de
tainee escalated his disruptive behavior.
The four staff members w orking the sec
tion began locking down those detainees
who would return to their rooms voluntar
ily. Ten detainees were locked down when
one o f the staff members attempted to
escort one o f the remaining four to his
room and was assaulted. The remaining
three assaulted the other three staff mem
bers who eventually were able to reach a
secure office and call for help. The staff
members were attacked with weapons the
detainees fashioned from items within the
facility such as pieces o f furniture and
staff radios. Two o f the staff members
were treated at Providence Hospital and
released. The other two were treated at the
center by on sight medical personnel.
The detainees attempted to break out
windows o f the facility to escape and w ere
unsuccessful. They then apparently decided
to ransack the office that they barricaded
themselves into and while doing so found
the location of over the counter medications
kept in the facility to be dispensed to the
detainees in the section by staff. During this
time period the detainees observed the po
lice arriving and decided to continue in a
rioting type behavior until they were even
tually taken into custody.
There is some indication that the detain
ees had been involved in a plan to escape
and/or riot earlier in the week.
The Multnomah County S h e riffs Office
Cell Extraction Response Team (C.E.R.T.)
along with the Portland Police Bureau’s
S p ecial E m e rg e n c y R e sp o n se T eam
(S.E.R.T.) worked with the cities Hostage
Negotiation Team (HNT) in containing the
situation and eventually resolving it. At
tempts at negotiating with the detainees
failed and eventually the response teams
entered the office area and took all four into
custody with out incident.
The East County major Crimes Team is
conducting the investigation with Oregon
State Police detectives as the lead investiga
tors. The four detainees were taken to the
Sheri ft"s office and interviewed by task force
and State Police detectives and booked into
MCDC.
The four detainees are being charged
with measure 11 felony offenses because of
the nature o f the assault and other charges.
The individuals arrested and charged in
this incident are identified as:
#1 Roberts, Jeremy W ayne Dec. 26,1980
#2 Nelson, James George May 13, 1982
#3 Cavan, Gary Dylan March 17, 1982
#4 Dodgin, Kodi T rayleO ct. 21, 1982
These individuals have prior juvenile
crim inal histories that are described by
the O regon Youth A uthority as not exten
sive.
Breakthrough In Sickle
Cell Anemia
After 10 years o f conclusive testing in Bra
zil, a newly formulated product for the allevia
tion o f the adverse symptoms o f sickle cell
anemia is being introduced in the United States.
A U.S. patent has been awarded to the product,
developed for Nutritional Biotonix, Inc., at Ft.
Lauderdale-based phyto-pharmaceutical com
pany. According to an announcement made by
Fernando D ’Avila, president, "this product has
been clinically proven to reduce the symptoms
of sickle cell disease, an illness that afflicts one
out o f every 400 African-Americans.”
Based on both laboratory and clinical test
ing, more than 80% of those taking the product,
called Healthy Red, have experienced measur
able changes in blood chemistry in 45 to 60
days. “Healthy Red has proven to inhibit the
sickling o f red blood cells and the sickled cells
revert to normal shape,” said D ’Avila. “The
sickling o f the red blood cells is the primary
factor resulting in the problem-causing effects
o f the disease.”
Originally developed in Brazil, where sickle
cell anemia is a major health problem, as it is in
the United States, the original clinical studies
were conducted by Dr. J. T. Araujo, director o f
the Hematology Department o f the Tropical
Medicine Institute of the University of San
Paulo. Dr. Araujo’s studies showed that im
pressive overall improved health conditions
were reached after the first two months of
taking Healthy Red and usually after one year,
the sickle cell symptoms decreased by 80%
and in some cases, 100%.
D’Avila pointed to the reports in the Ab-
stractsofthe International Society o f Hematol
ogy, published after its 24th Congress in Lon
don, England, that stated the compounds in this
new product “well indicate that it corrects the
immune system in a yet undermined manner,
though possibly by changing the genetic struc
ture, specifically modifying the gene o f the
immune system." The Abstract further repo ted
that "over a three year period, sickle cell pa
tients needed no blood transfusions, their
hemaglobin remained between acceptable
ranges, patient's appearance improved, and
they did not develop any chest syndrome nor
ulcers in lower limbs."
This product is specially formulated from a
rare natural herb grown in the Amazon basin in
the heart of the famed rain forest. During the
pas, ten years, it has become recognized as the
“oxygen tablet" as a result o f its effectiveness
in helping the oxygenation o f the red blood
cell.
Additional information can be obtained from
Nutritional Biotonix a, 1-877-444-4415.
The African American Program
by
J oy R amos
On July 9th, a group o f men gathered at a
home in NE Portland to be recognized for
their successful completion o f a long and
difficult struggle toward rejoining their com
munity as productive citizens, husbands and
fathers. These men are parolees, and mem
bers o f the African American Program de
veloped by Multnomah County’s depart
ment o f Adult Community Justice, many
having spent a significant part of their adult
lives in prison, these man proudly stepped
forward to be presented with individual
certificates o f achievement by Jim Rood,
deputy director o f the department, on behalf
o f the parole officers and corrections coun
selors whose efforts have shown remark
able results in breaking the cycle o f recidi
vism for this group o f men.
Less than two years ago, parole supervi
sor Carl Goodman and a select group o f
officers and counselors laid the groundwork
for a new program aimed a, an old and
frustrating problem, the fact that far too
many African American men released from
prison on parole were being revoked and
sent back for new criminal activity. The
Cari Goodman, the founder of the African American Program.
C ontinued T o P age B8
Thrill Kill
Thalidomide Returns
Gateway Urban Center
Airport Line
An arrest was made in Texas o f one sus
pect that had committed a “thrill kill" on a
Seaside beach last summer. The murderer.
Jesse Carl McAllister was arrested as he tried
to cross into the United States from Mexico.
He faces aggravated murder charges.
The drug Thalidomide will be available
for use to treat a small number o f leprosy
patients. The drug was removed from the
market because it caused birth-defect horrors
worldwide. Women must take a pregnancy
test before getting the drug, and men and
women must use contraception.
East Portland’s Gateway District will un
dergo a transformation that will make it a
second urban center to downtown. The strat
egy is to make the area a walkable showpiece
for Portland’s east side and capitalize on its
unmatched accessibility by freeway, bus and
light rail.
The cost of a 5.5-mile extension o f light
rail from the Gateway Transit Center to
Portland International Airport would be
about $ 125 million. The estimate was deter
mined by Tri-Met. The actual amount may
differ greatly with the additional cost o f rail
cars, terminals, an overpass and a commer
cial development.
Ex-Secret Service
Chief Justice William Rehnquist is allow
ing the testimony o f President Clinton’s se
curity detail. A retired Secret Service agent
has begun testifying before a grandjury in the
Monica Lewinsky investigation. The possi
bility o f peijury, witness tampering and ob
struction in this case will also be investi
gated.
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Donald E. Long Juvenile facility.
9,000 Inmates Freed
Garbage Merger
South African President Nelson Mandela
granted freedom to 9,000 prison inmates as
part o f his birthday celebration.
The government had allowed any pris
oner with six months or less to serve except
for the mentally disturbed - eligibility for
parole.
A merger between two o f the nation’s
largest garbage haulers has resulted in the
possibility o f lower garbage rates for house
holds throughout the Portland region. Metro
is trying to negotiate a new contract to dis
pose o f Portland’s garbage at the Arlington
landfill.
OHSU Research Site
Oregon Health Sciences University is
creating a research area that will become a
mecca for science and technology. Plans are
underway forthis 20-year project. The name
o f this facility will be Star Park, or Science,
Technology and Research Park