March 29, 2000
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Police News/Vancouver
Crime Stoppers
2 kids killed in
bus, train crash
TENNGA.Ga. -Twochildrenwere
killed and five critically injured
when a train slammed into a school
bus near the Georgia-Tennessee
line, splitting it in two. Officials
said the CSX train hit the bus just
inside Tennessee and dragged it
into Georgia. No one on the train
was injured, said a spokeswoman
for CSX. The bus had crossed into
Polk County, Tenn., to turn around
and head back to Georgia when it
was hit. The bus driver is in stable
condition at a hospital. A witness
says th e crash so u n d ed like
thunder or a bomb blowing up.
Elian’s Miami
relatives lash out
at INS
MI A M I- Elian Gonzalez’s Miami
relatives lashed out at immigration
authorities, saying they had not
signed an agreement demanded
by the government to promise to
surrender the 6-year-old if they
lose their court fight. Through a
sp o k e sm a n , th ey said the
authorities vowed to remove Elian
if an agreement w asn’t signed
soon. The relatives met with the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service and said no agreement had
been signed to let the boy return to
Cuba if the family loses the court
fig h t. T he INS says E lia n ’s
temporary permission to stay in
the United States would end at 9
am. on Thursday, March 30 unless
the fam ily provided a w ritten
guarantee to give him up.
Court cuts police
power to search
W ASHINGTON - The Supreme
C ourt ruled unanim ously that
police generally cannot stop and
search someone for a gun based
on an anonymous tip accurately
d escrib in g only that p e rso n ’s
location and clothing. The justices
said Miami police acted unlawfully
in 1995 when they searched and
arrested a juvenile, identified in
court records as J.L., who was
carrying a gun. Police had received
an anonymous tip that three black
youths were standing in front o f a
pawn shop and that the one in a
plaid shirt was carrying a concealed
gun.
Court sidesteps
student
bankruptcy
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court steered clear o f a dispute
over people who file for federal
bankruptcy protection and then
try to avoid paying back student
loans from state-run colleges and
universities. The justices rejected
an appeal in which Kansas officials
said state schools are immune from
such m aneuvers b ecau se the
Constitution’s 11"' Amendment
shields them from being sued in
federal court. Lower courts ruled
a g a in st such im m u n ity , but
K ansas’ appeal was supported by
a fnend-of-the-court brief filed in
behalf o f 24 other states.
Iran holds out on
oil production
VIENNA, Austria - Iran is the only
OPEC member holding out against
an agreement to increase petroleum
output by as much as 7 percent, the
Saudi Arabian oil minister said.
The oil ministers are trying to reach
a consensus that could lead to
some reductions in gas prices.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have
backed a production increase o f
1.5 million to 1.7 million barrels a
day. Iran has proposed boosting
daily production by no more than
1.2 million barrels o f crude - an
amount that probably would do
little to reduce world oil prices.
A rson in v e stig a to rs from the
Portland Police Bureau and the
Portland Eire Bureau in cooperation
with Crime Stoppers are asking for
y o u r h e lp in lo c a tin g and
ap p re h e n d in g H um berto Lara
Fernandez. A felony arrest warrant
is on file charging Fernandez with
14 counts o f Arson in the First
D egree. Bail has been set at
$3,500,000.
The warrant stems from an incident
in which Fernandez is believed to
have set fire to an apartm ent
building with 11 occupants insides.
Although the residents were safely
evacuated, a firefighter was injured
fighting the blaze. Damage to the
building is estimated at $ 100,000.
H u m b erto L ara F ernandez is
described as a 31 -year-old H ispanic
male with a date o f birth o f August
23, 1968. Fernandez is 5 ’7” tall,
weighing 180 pounds with black
P ortland O bserver
The M J Murdock Charitable Trust
has announced a two-year grant of
$250,000 for Ecumenical Ministries of
O regon’s Hopewell House. The
funding will support care for patients
who have no insurance or need
financial assistance as well as an
expansion o f EMO volunteertraining
and end-of-life care com m unity
education program. As part o f the
grant, EMO has been challenged to
■ raise $50,000 in matching funds by
December 31,2000.
For over ten years, Hopewell House
has provided com passionate and
comprehensive end-of-life care to
Oregonians.
As a part o f EM O ’s compassionate
care and education division; Hopewell
House also offers grief education and
support groups as well as education
Inform ation from Captain Brain
Martinek 251-2515; pager271-1217
witnesses that lead to the indictment
and arrest o f Mr. Santmyer.
hair and brown eyes. Investigators
believe he may have grown a beard.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash
rew ard o f up to $ 1 ,0 0 0 for
information, reported to Crime
Stoppers, which leads to an arrest
in this case any unsolved felony
crime, can remain anonymous. Cal 1
Crime Stoppers at (503) 823-HELP.
Murdock Charitable Trust
awards EMO’s Hopewell
House $250,000
for T he
Arrest made on 1982 homicide
training for individuals interested in
providing hospice care. A two-day
workshop on hospice and end-of-
life-care will be held the weekend of
June 3 and 4.
Hopewell House is located at 6171
SW Capitol Highway in Southwest
Portland. Its -specially trained staff
members are skilled in the unique
needs o f hospice patients as well as
the emotional, spiritual and practical
concerns o f patients, fam ilies and
friends. Hopewell House is dedicated
to offering comfort and dignity to
patients.
EMO is an association o f 15 Christian
denominations including Orthodox,
Catholic and Protestant religious
bodies that work together to improve
the lives o f Oregonians.
For more information, call Melinda
S m ith , D ire c to r o f E M O ’s
Compassionate Care Division, at (503)
244-7890.
Police arrested a man Sunday (03/19/
OOjaccusedofthemurderofKimberly
Kae Basel. M ultnom ah C ounty
S heriff’s detectives obtained an
indictment for Murder against John
Albert Santmyer(04/22/63) last weeks.
Mr. Santm yer was subsequently
arrested on that indictment and on
two outstanding arrest warrants from
W ashington C ounty (P robation
Violations. Mr. Santmyer is lodged at
MCDC and will be arraigned at 10:30
today.
M u ltn o m ah C ounty s h e r if f ’s
detectives re-opened a homicide
investigation from 1982 involving the
disappearance and death o f Kimberly
Kae Basel (04/01/63). The case was
reopened in February o f 1998 when
detectives received a tip about the
whereabouts ofher body. Detectives
and OSP crime lab personnel went to
a rural sight in Wasco County where
they found the remain o f Ms.Basel
buried there. The medical examiners
office was not able to determine the
cause o f death.
M s. B asel w as liv in g in the
Multnomah county area at the time o f
her disappearance. She was last in
contact with her family in October o f
1982. During that time the Portland
police and the Clackamas County
S h e riffs office were investigating
Ms. Basel for unrelated incidents. In
1983 a missing person report was
filed with the Multnomah County
S h eriffs office based on her last
address being in Multnomah County
on NE 202 A ve. D e te c tiv e s
investigated the disappearance until
1990 when the case was suspended.
In February o f 1998 the sheriffs office
received the tip about Ms. Basel’s
body and the investigation was
reopened. Detectives had identified
persons who they believe to ue
suspects in the murder and/or removal
o f the body from the murder location
to W ascoCounty. Detectives believe
that Ms. Basel was murdered in
Multnomah County and transported
to Wasco County.
In the past two years Multnomah
County S h eriffs detectives, with
assistance from Portland Police,
Clackamas County S.O. and AFT,
fo llo w e d up lead s, C o n d u cted
interviews and found evidence and
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