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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
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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. The boy, now 17, told
his parents about it last month
a fter w atching a telev isio n Lawrence Cohen
show about coaches abusing
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