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P O L IC E N E W S
Officer Involved
Shooting
O n T uesday, S eptem ber 21,
1999, at approxim ately 5:15 PM,
officers from N orth Precinct were
dispatched to 10228 N. M idway
after a neighbor called and reported
a fam ily disturbance at that loca
tion. W hen the officers arrived, the
wife o f D uane Lyle W hite Jr. was
outside o f the residence. She stated
to the officers that he had threat
ened her and w as inside their house
destroying the interior. T he offic
ers could hear the sounds o f a dis
turbance inside the house, includ
ing the sound o f glass breaking.
T he officers attem pted to contact
Duane W hite Jr. and he w ould not
open the door. A fter interview ing
the wife, officers established prob
able cause to arrest D uane W hite
Jr. for m enacing under the D om es
tic V iolence Statute.
They repeatedly attem pted to
get him to open the door o f the
residence. O fficers then forced the
door o f the residence and Duane
W hite Jr confronted the officers
with a machete. The officers who
w ere w ithin several feet o f Duane
W hite Jr. repeatedly ordered him to
drop the m achete and when he re
fused to do so, one officer fired his
w eapon several tim es and struck
Duane W hite Jr. D uane W hite Jr.
was transported to an area hospital
w here he is being treated for his
injuries.
Detectives from the Portland Po
lice Bureau and the East County
M ajor C rim es Team responded to
the scene and are conducting the
investigation. An arrest w arrant was
obtained for D uane W hite Jr., 34
years, for 2 counts o f M enacing,
and 1 count o f A ttem pted Assault 1.
He has been arrested for the charges.
A s in a ll o f fic e r in v o lv e d
shootings, the nam es o f the officers
will not be released for 24 hours.
The M ultnom ah County District
A ttorney’s Office will review the
case.
Neighborhood
Enhancement Fund
Grant Application
Deadline Nears
TheGreenNeighborhoodNetw ork
(GNN) N eighborhood Enhancement
fu n d is seeking proposals from com
munity groups needing funds for local
projects w ith an environm ental ben
efit. The deadline to apply for these
funds in this round is nearing. The
application deadline is October 15 th.
GNN is a partnership o f sixteen
public and pn vate organizations with
a goal o f helping H ollyw ood area
residents and businesses reduce oper
ating costs, enhance the natural envi
ronment, and m ake the best use o f
natural resources. The N eighborhood
Enhancement Fund was created with
funding from Pacific Pow er to en
courage com m unity-based partner
ships that promote resource efficiency
or enhance the natural environment.
The funds are available for projects to
be implemented within the GNN tar
get area - betw een NE 33rd and 57,h
Aves, from 1-84 to Fremont St.
Applicants m ust be non-profit or
ganizations. They can partner with
school, co m m u n ity , or b u sin ess
groups. Cost m atching with outside
funds or in-kind services is encour
aged. Preference will be given to re
quests with cost-sharing. Measurable
outcom es are strongly encouraged.
The benefits can be stated in terms o f
resources saved, waste avoided and/
or em issions reduced. Projects with
long-term benefits will be given pref
erence in funding.
A ll interested parties are encour
aged to apply. A nyone that is not
eligible can apply in partnership with
an organization that is. A pplication
form s are available at the H olly
w ood Library, the C entral N o rth
east N eighbors office, the H olly
w ood S enior C enter, and the P ort
land E nergy O ffice. For m ore de
tails, contact the Energy O ffice at
823-7222.
Council approves new drug free zones
B y L ey P erlman
A fter hearing an aftern o o n o f
testim ony, the Portland C ity C o u n
cil last w eek approved a new drug
free zone, and the ex p an sio n o f an
ex istin g one, in north and n o rth east
Portland.
C ouncil voted four to zero to
approve the zones, w ith co m m is
sioner Erik Sten absent for the vote.
A new W oodlaw n zone w ill be
b ounded by N ortheast M allo ry and
15th avenues, P ortland B oulevard
an d L om bard S treet, w ith a sh o rt
p a n h a n d le e x te n d in g so u th to
N ortheast A insw orth Street.
The new zones are sm all co m
p ared to an earlier proposal to take
in nearly all the territory betw een
N orth and N ortheast D ekum and
Russell streets, N orth C o n co rd and
N o rth east 15th avenues, w ith an
ex ten sio n to N o rth east 33rd A v
enue north o f P rescott S treet. The
current prop o sed zone is “ v ery n a r
row ly draw n around sp ecific drug
traffic p ro b lem s,” H ay d en said.
“ T he m ore loosely draw n it is, the
m ore vulnerable w e are to ch arg es
that the zone d o esn ’t ad d ress the
(drug) p ro b lem .”
A p olice o ffic er can o rd er a p e r
son arrested for sale o r p o ssessio n
o f illegal drugs to be ex clu d ed from
all city drug free zones for 90 days.
A ju d g e can order so m eo n e c o n
v icted o f such offen ses ex clu d ed
for a year. A nyone ex clu d ed w ho is
found w ith in the zone is su b je ct to
a “ crim inal tresp ass” arrest. A n y
one ex clu d ed has seven d ay s to
ch allen g e the ex clu sio n , o r to seek
a variance to travel to o r from a jo b ,
treatm en t program o r th e ir ow n
hom e if it is w ith in a zone.
b e fo re O ct. 1.
F o r fam ily g o v e rn m e n t rev ise
fo o d -sta m p p a y m e n ts a n n u a lly to
re fle c t c h a n g e s in food, h o u sin g
an d o th e r c o sts. F o o d -sta m p r e
c ip ie n ts are low in c o m e, e ld e rly
o r d isa b le d . T he a v e ra g e am o u n t
o f food sta m p s re c e iv e d by an
O re g o n h o u se h o ld is a b o u t $150.
T h e f e d e ra l f in a n c e d fo o d -
sta m p p ro g ra m , in te n d e d to e n
sure ac c e ss to a n u tritio u s d ie t, is
a d m in iste re d in O re g o n by th e
A d u lt an d F a m ily S erv ice s and
th e S e n io r D isa b le d S e rv ic e s d i
v isio n o f th e s ta te D e p a rtm e n t o f
H u m an S erv ice s.
S in c e s p r in g 1 9 9 8 , O re g o n
fo o d -sta m p b e n e fits h av e b ee n
d e liv e re d e le c tro n ic a lly and r e
c ip ie n ts h av e b ee n ab le to o b ta in
funds u sin g c re d it card siz e d O r
eg o n T ra il c a rd . O re g o n , th e first
W est C o a st sta te to ad o p t w h at is
c a lle d e le c tro n ic b e n e fit tra n sfe r,
d id so to co m p ly w ith a fed eral
Sabin neighborhood said she feared
the zone w ould co n tin u e the p ro
cess o f “ d isresp ec t” o f A frican-
A m e r ic a n s b r o u g h t o n b y
g en trificatio n . S he cited several
cases o f A fric an -A m erica n s h a
rassed by p olice sim ply for being
on the street.
M ayor V era K atz, in response
to Skye an d oth ers, urged the p o
lice to m ake in fo rm atio n as under-
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Employee earns reward; forger gets
fine & probation
The watchful eyes o f a K inko’s
employee thwarted attempts o f a 23-
year-old man to forge Tri-Met passes
and will earn her a $200 reward for
bringing him to justice.
Jason Michael Merrigan pleaded
guilty to one count o f forgery in
Multnomah Clrcuit Court. He was fined
$200, had to pay court costs and was
placed under 18-months’ probation
through a plea bargain agreement.
In August, police caught Merrigan
after a second attempt at copying Tri-
Met monthly passes at two different
Kinko’s stores, according to Portland
Police records.
On Aug. 8, M em gan and a woman
entered a K inko’s in NE Vancouver
and began making color copies of
August monthly passes. W hen an em
ployee confronted Merrigan and told
him he was violating copyright laws,
he agreed to stop making the copies
req u irem en t e ffec tiv e in 2002 that
is in te n d ed to h elp re c ip ie n ts b u d
g et, to re d u c e fra u d an d to in
c re a se e ffic ie n c y fo r re ta ile rs.
standable, and legal redress as easy
to obtain, as possible.
Several zone supporters said the
exclusion actually helped reco v er
ing ad d icts stay clean. D aniele
Johnson o f Franciscan E nterprise
told o f being stopped for tresp ass
ing in a drug free zone. “ It show ed
m e my problem w as out o f co n
tro l,” she said. “I am a resu lt o f this
program , clean for two y ears.”
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Forger Stopped By
Kinko’s Employee -
Oregon food-stamp
recipients receive an
increase beginning in
October
O re g o n ’s 105,000 fo o d -sta m p
h o u se h o ld s w ill re c e iv e sm a ll in
c re a se s in O c to b e r in th e am o u n t
o f th e ir allo tm e n t and in how m uch
th e y c a n e a rn to q u a lify .
T he c h a n g e , a ffe c tin g ab o u t
2 2 0 ,0 0 0 p e o p le , b e c o m e s e f fe c
tiv e O ct. 1. A m o u n ts re c e iv e d are
b ased on h o u s e h o ld siz e , in c o m e
and e x p e n se s. F o r an in d iv id u a l,
the m o n th ly fo o d -stam p a llo tm e n t
w ill in c re a se by $2, from $125 to
$ 127, i f the in d iv id u al has no oth er
in c o m e o r e x p e n se s. T h e in d i
v id u a l also can e a rn m o re - g ro ss
in c o m e to q u a lify m u st be $893 a
m o n th o r less c o m p ared w ith $873
Sten, the only C ouncil m em ber
to vote ag ain st estab lish in g the
Beech zone tw o years ago, said he
was “pleasantly surprised by the
w ay this has gone. I f y o u ’re ar
rested and th e re ’s no room for in
carceration, it m akes sense to ex
clude.” He said that in two years
“there d o e s n 't seem to be a ton o f
evidence that th e re’s abuse going
on.”
D u rin g p u b lic te stim o n y the
week before. R epresentatives o f the
Boise, H um boldt, K ing, Piedm ont
and W oodlaw n neigh b o rh o o d as
sociations, the C o alitio n o f Black
Men, Portland Com m unity C ollege,
Jefferso n H igh S ch o o l, an d the
Hope and H ard W ork C om m ittee
spoke in favor o f the prop o sed
zones. Jack P aulson o f K ing called
for a six square b lock addition to
the Beech zone expansion to take
in a critical area on the north C oun
cil declined to approve this request.
Piedm ont chair B etsy R adigan
said that drug houses these days are
“ less likely to be rentals run by
clueless landlords than people w ith
now here to go but back to m a or
grandm a. T he tools have to change
w ith the problem .”
Several speakers, m ost o f them
law yers, opposed the zone as a
threat to civil liberties and discrim i
natory in its operation. K elly Skye
o f th e M e tr o p o lita n P u b lic
D efender’s O ffice said that the w rit
ten inform ation given to those ex
cluded is confusing, as is the map
o f the zones. E xclusion puts m ost
treatm ent and drug-free housing
off-lim its to recovering addicts, she
said.
F ra n c e s O ’H a llo rh a n o f the
and turned the copies over to the worker.
He then grabbed the originals and left
the building. The employee called other
K inko’s stores in the metro area and
advised them o f what happened.
Eight days later, M errigan en
tered a K inko’s in S W Portland near
Portland State U niversity and at
tem pted to m ake copies o f the pass
again. He was confronted again by
an em ployee who saw him copying
them.
The employee, Amy Thornton, took
most o f the copies away from Memgan,
who fled the copy shop, leaving behind
the original pass in the photocopier.
The employee called the police who
discovered Merrigan at a nearby res
taurant.
Merrigan was arrested on several
forgery counts and possession o f a
forged instrument. He has spent the
past 35 days in jail
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Chiropractic Physician
425 NW 18th Ave. • Portland, OR 97209 • (503) 228-6140
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