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Child Prostitution Case Continues to Unfold
(AP) - Charges against three
Americans accused o f bringing
an 11-year-old girl to Vancouver,
British Columbia and forcing her
into prostitution were dismissed
Tuesday after a judge rejected
the child’s videotaped statement.
Provincial court Judge William
Kitchen ruled the girl’s video
taped statement was credible but
not compelling enough by itself to
sustain charges against the two
men and one woman.
The girl, who lives in Portland,
is a ward o f the state and her legal
guardian said it wouldn't be in the
child's best interest to return to
testify.
But Kitchen said that although
the girl was told by police in the
Police say a MAX light rail
em ployee may have sexually
abused a teenager while he was
operating a train. On July 24,36
year old Patrick VanHorn of
northeast Portland was ar
rested.
Police say the incident
involving the 14 year old
girl took place on July 19
while the MAX train was
headed towards Gresham.
I n v e s tig a to rs
say
VanHorn knew the alleged
victim.
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Man Wanted for
Armed Robberies
On July 19,2001 the Clark County
Inter-Agency Gang Task Force served
three search warrants looking for the
suspects and evidence related to the
beating o f an African American man
by four white males that occurred on
the July 16. The warrants were served
at3101 Q S t.,3 2 1 4 Q S t.,a n d 5 1 5 W.
Evergreen Blvd. These locations are
the homes o f three o f the subjects
involved in the assault.
During the investigation o f this hate
crime, detectives from die Clark County
Inter-Agency Gang Task Force deter
mined several o f the assailants appear
to be members o f the skinhead/white
supremacist sub-culture and that this
was a racially-motivated attack.
At this time, two o f the four subjects
are in the Clark County Jail. However,
two are still outstanding, and appears
to be fleeing the authorities Still wanted
for Assault II Malicious Harassment,
Malicious M ischief II are these two
men: Brent W. Luyster, also known as
‘/B J'andR oyJ. Thompson, also known
as “Roy Boy." If you have any infor
mation to the whereabouts o f these
two or were a witness to the assault,
please ca ll d e te c tiv e s M arshall
Henderson at 360-397-2211 ext. 4227.
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stolen item s from H /P to his
hom e.
The investigation is continu
ing and future arrests are a n
ticipated.
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Robbery investiga
tors from the Portland
Police Bureau, in coop
eration with Crime Stop
pers, are asking for help
identifying and appre
hending the suspect in
volved in a series o f
armed robberies.
Investigators believe
the same individual is
responsible for robber
ies at three o ff track bet
ting locations in south
west, southeast, and
northeast Portland.
The suspect is de
scribed as a black male,
30to40yearsofage,5’4” 4 sketch shows (he suspect in a series <
to5’ 8” tall,stockybuild, armed robberies.
with a medium complex
ion and short hair, armed with a dark
jolored handgun.
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reward ofup to $ 1,000 for information,
reported to Crime Stoppers, which leads
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R ogers at 110 SE 3rd S treet in
B a ttle G ro u n d . R e c o v e re d
w ere n u m e ro u s s to le n H /P
p rin te rs, and co m p u te r sy s
tem s, w ith an estim ated value
o f $30,000. Seized d u ring th is
p o lice o p eratio n w as a p p ro x i
m ately $ 10,000 in cash as p ro
from the V ancouver site and
selling them to a Battle Ground
com puter retail company.
On the «ame day, Vancouver
police detectives and B attle
G round P o lice o ffic e rs e x
ecuted a search w arrant on
th e r e s i d e n c e o f W a rre n
On July 18, Detectives o f the
V ancouver
P o lic e
D epartm ent’s Fraud, Forgery
and E -crim es U nit, arrested
W arren Gene Rogers, a Hewlett
Packard contract em ployee.
Rogers is alleged to have sto
len quantities o f H/P products
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Search Continues
for Suspects in
Hate Crime
Vancouver, to sell herself and
was loaded with acid, speed, caf
feine and Ecstasy.
A Vancouver police officer
spotted the girl on a street known
for prostitution - “the kiddie stroll”
- and stopped to check on her.
The girl quickly told her story,
including the fact that she was
only 11.
Suspect Arrested for Stolen Computer Goods
MAX Train Employee
Arrested in Sex Case
Patrick VanHorn
U.S. authorities have indicted
them on similar charges.
The girl told Canadian authori
ties in February that she met her
captors in a Portland shopping
mall and they promised she would
make money by going with them
to Canada.
Police said the girl was then
dum ped onto the s tre e ts o f
Walker and Melinda Mae Carter
aren’t in the clear yet.
The accused, all in their 20s,
have been held since February on
charges o f abduction o f a minor
under the age o f 14, living off the
avails of prostitution, sexual inter
ference and assault.
They will remain in custody
and be returned to Portland where
videotape that she may be re
quired to appear as a witness,
they and the Crown didn't do
enough to bring her here to testify
against the three.
“Much, much more should have
been done to attempt to secure
her attendance,” Kitchen said.
However, the three accused -
Jabari McCrory, David Martin
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