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I September 19, 2001 (Elje JJortlanh © h sm w r Page A2 g POIICE/VANCOUVER Gabriel Park Trees Chopped Down Sentencing postponed for Millennium Terrorist (A P)— Sentencing for con victed terrorist Ahmed Ressam, the man arrested in Port Ange les before the 2000 millennium celebrations, has been post poned until Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Seattle. R e ssa m an d M o k h ta r H aouari, both A lgerian na tionals, w ere convicted in a plot to set o ff a bom b at Los A ngeles In tern atio n al A ir port. Ressam , 34, was co n victed of conspiracy in April in Los A ngeles and later tes tified against Haouari at his trial in New Y orkCity. The plot was foiled when Ressam was arrested in December 1999 at Port Angeles while trying to enter this country from Canada with explosives in his car. Ressam, who wa&to have been sentenced Sept. 20, faces up to 130 years in prison, but has coop erated with prosecutors in a bid to reduce that term. Deputy U.S. Attorney Steve Gonzales said Thursday that the sentencing delay was not due to Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, but had been granted last week at the request of defense lawyers. Ressam has said he had owed his allegiance to Haydar Abu Doha, a London resident close to Osama bin Laden. Abu Doha has been charged with conspir ing to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Haouari, 32, faces up to 50 years in prison for supplying fake identification and $3,000to Ressam to buy bomb-making chemicals. Haouari is to be sen tenced Oct. 17. Dialogue to Tackle Racial Profiling The Vancouver campus of Washington State Uni versity and the YWCA of Clark County are hosting a Day of Dialogue from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, S ept. 22, on the W SU Vancouver campus. The day features presen tations and discussions on racial profiling, valuing di versity, immigrant popula tions and the community’s future commitments to di versity. Participants and present ers include representatives from the local human rights commission; Galina Boyechko, events coordinator for the city of Vancouver; representatives from the Playback Theater; WSU faculty; and Earl Ford, president of the Vancouver branch of the NAACP. Clay Mosher, associate pro fessor of political science at WSU Vancouver, will give the keynote presentation. Regis tration takes place from 9-9:30 a.m. Cost is $30, which in cludes a Caribbean-style lunch. Scholarships are available on a c a se -b y -c a se need b asis. WSU Vancouver and Clark College students can receive credit for participation. Sponsors include WSU V an co u v er, the city of V ancou ver, YWCA of Clark County, Hewlett Packard and Soroptim ists Interna tional of Vancouver. For more information, con tact Pat Stryker at YWCA of Clark County, 360-696- 0167, or A ngela G uess- W estb ro o k s, hum an r e sources and diversity coor dinator at WSU Vancouver, 360-546-9587. The Portland Police Bureau in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, is asking for your help in identify ing and apprehending the sus pect or suspects responsible for two cases of extensive vandalism at a city park. Sometime between 10 p.m. on the evening of Monday, Aug. 6 and 5 a.m. the next morning, over 15 young trees were chopped down near the Community Center parking lot of Gabriel Park, 6820 S.W. 45th Ave. Vandals struck the park again on the night of Friday, Aug 24, when numerous trees were tom down near the tennis court park ing area. Damage to the park is e stim a te d at a p p ro x im a te ly $45,000. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information, reported to Crime Stoppers, which leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you can remain anonymous. Call Crime Stoppers at(5O3)823-HELP. One o f many young trees a t Gabriel Park in southwest Portland ruined by vandalism. Wanted Driver Has Local Ties The FBI and the Warm Springs Police Department, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, are asking for your help in identifying and apprehending the suspect in a fatal hit and run incident. On Saturday, Aug. 11 at about 9:25 p.m., ahit and run driver struck and killed 40-year-old Lorraine Hoptowit at the intersection of Tenino Road and Highway 26 on Some banks charge for every check you write on free checking accounts. the Warm Springs Indian Reser vation. W itnesses described the ve hicle as a small light-colored truck or SUV, possibly a Chevrolet S -10 pick-up or Blazer. The vehicle was towing a 10 to 12 foot long flatbed trailer, and was last seen heading westbound on Highway 26. The truck may have front-end dam age. Investigators believe the driver responsible may be in the Port land area. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward o f up to $1,000 for information, reported to Crime Stoppers, which leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you can remain anonymous. Call Crime Stoppers at(503)823-HELP. Inmate Breaks Into Prison (AP) - An armed man who had just been released from the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem is accused of trying to force his way back into the prison by cutting a razor-wire fence. 26-year-old Joel Damon Montoya tried to re-enter the prison just hours after his re lease. M ontoya was found be tween two perimeter fences at Joel Montoya the medium-security facility at about 9:30 p.m. Aug. 5, said Perrin Damon, a corrections department spokeswoman. Montoya was in the process of cutting through the interiorfence. She said a weapon and “escape devices” were found, but she would not elaborate. Officers also found a white pow dery su b sta n c e a fter searching Montoya, Damon said. Montoya, who had just com pleted a year in prison for sex abuse, was in the custody of the Oregon State Police. He had previous misde meanor convictions in Oregon of false application for a driver’s license and contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor. Former Coach Charged With Abuse * players, said Capt. Marc Galloway. Detectives are trying to gather a list of the soccer leagues C ohen w orked with, Gallow ay said. “We have had isolated cases of this nature,” he said. “But I don’t want to burn the good coaches out there. T here’s many more of those out there than this kind.” (AP) - A man who coached youth soccer for at least 20 years faces charges of sexu ally abusing one of his players. Lake O sw ego police said Lawrence Cohen, 60, a self- em ployed jew eler, abused a p la y e r fiv e y e a rs a g o at C ohen’s hom e, when the boy was 12. 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