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Pervish Gets 37 Years
for Promoting Prostitution
Benjamin Pervish
Benjamin Edward Pervish,
33, of Portland was sentenced
on Oct. 2 to 450 months in
prison on 22 counts of promot­
ing prostitution, 14 counts of
compelling prostitution and one
Woman Charged in
Murder at Alberta Home
A woman turned herself in to
police Monday and was charged
with murdering a man whose body
was found Oct. 6 in a home in the
1500 block of North Alberta.
Portland police say Faafofoga
Havila Abelein came to the Port­
land Justice Center and was inter­
viewed by police before being
charged and held without bail in
the Justice Center Jail.
The victim was identified as 27-
year-old Jed Gavin Thomas.
An autopsy determ ined he
died o f a head injury. Police say
dental records were used to iden­
tify him.
Police went to the home after
someone reported a foul odor in
the basement. Officers got a war­
rant to search the property and
found G avin's body on the floor
of the unfinished basement, cov­
ered with a pile of clothes and
blankets.
Abelein reportedly knew Tho­
mas and had lived in the home
where the body was found.
count of tampering with a
witness.
In D ecem ber 2000, a
woman he had forced to work
as a prostitute becam e a
crime victim and went to po­
lice. A criminal investigation
was initiated based on the
victim’s statements.
During the investigation,
several more female victims
were identified and agreed to
speak with investigators.
They described in great de­
tail the devastation the crimes
caused to themselves and
their families.
D esp ite th e ir fe a r o f
Pervish, three victims agreed
to testify about his abuse,
leading to his conviction, po­
lice said.
The problem started more than
a decade ago, when the secretary
of state’s office started sending
out the incomplete oath to newly
elected judges.
“I have absolutely no under­
standing how that could happen,"
Carson said.
Legal experts say the failure to
take a complete oath does not
make ajudge invalid, nor would it
be a reason to overturn any deci­
sions. But no court has made a
ruling on the issue.
(AP) — The chief o f police at
Portland International A irport
resigned after an outside review
found his departm ent has suf­
fered from security lapses.
The Aug. 1 review found that
one officer left a loaded hand­
gun in a public airport restroom
last year, other officers were not
disciplined for sleeping on the
job, and some officers said they
were punished for carrying out
their law -enforcem ent duties.
A irport Police C hief Mike
Brant quit Sept. 4, days after
Port officials told him he could
keep his jo b only if he made
p ro g re ss to w a rd a d d re ssin g
problem s. He has agreed to stay
on the jo b until D ecem ber as the
airport’s security precautions
have increased follow ing the
Sept. 11 terro rists’ attacks on
the East Coast.'
Officials have recommended
main terminal. He took off his gun
belt that held a 9 nun pistol, hung
it in the restroom stall, and then
forgot to put it back on when he
left.
A member of the public then
went to use the same stall, shut
the door and saw the gun and belt
hanging there.
Still, the officer received the
same level of discipline— a w rit­
ten reprim and — as another
officer who m issed a training
seminar.
In another allegation, officers
reported that inappropriate re­
marks and actions were made by a
few officers about religion and
women. The report also said that
at least one current and one former
member of the command staff had
been vindictive toward certain
officers and inappropriately inter­
fered with promotions and inves­
tigations.
several changes with the airport
police, including monthly staff
meetings to improve communica­
tion, and written performance stan­
dards and annual evaluations.
Port officials commissioned the
review after getting a large num­
ber of complaints and grievances
from officers.
“Almost every person inter­
viewed reported that the work
environment is negative and mo­
rale is low,” Rhonda Hilyer of
Agreement Dynamics Inc., who
interviewed 27 o f the force's 40
members in June and July. “This
seems to have been a continual
state of affairs over the last sev­
eral years, with the situation con­
tinuing to spiral down.”
The most serious incident cited
involved an officer leaving his
loaded gun in a restroom. Accord­
ing to Schreiber, the officer went
to use a public restroom in the
Orozco Wanted for Lake Oswego Murder
The Lake O sw ego Police
D e p a r tm e n t a n d th e
M ultnom ah C ounty M ajor
Crim e Team , incooperation
withCrime Stoppers, areask-
ing for your help in locating
and apprehending M arcus
KeloOrozco.
A felony arrest w arrant is
onfilecharging O rozco with
a g g ra v a te d m u rd e r w ith a
fireann. robbery with a fire-
rum, burglary w ith a fiiearm
and felon in possession o f a
fireann.
Judges to Retake Oath for Impartially
(AP) — The Oregon Constitu­
tion requires judges to swear to
uphold the federal and state con­
stitutions and to discharge their
duties faithfully and impartially.
One problem: For more than a
decade, newly elected judges have
been taking a version of the oath
of office that omits the words "and
impartially.”
Now, Oregon Supreme Court
Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson
Jr. is suggesting that state judges
retake the oath.
Airport Police Chief to Leave
Under Cloud of Discontent
A group of activists has been
raising the oath issue since at
least the beginning of the year,
contending that judges who took
incomplete ones are invalid and
their rulings void.
Tw o w eeks ago, a litigant
raised the question during a hear­
ing before Multnomah Circuit
Judge Ellen Rosenblum. She re­
sponded by retaking the oath on
the spot.
•T hat’s one way to address it,”
Carson said.
anncd and dangerous.
According to investigators,
O rozco is w anted for the m ur­
der ofJosh L. T o o m ey , w hich
took place on Feb. 12 in Lake
' O sw ego. D etectives have al­
ready m ad e o n e arrest in the
case, w h ic h is b eliev ed to be
drug related.
Orozco isa26-year-old His­
panic m ale w ith a date ofbirth
o f S e p t. 2 6 , 1974. H e is d e -
scribed as 5 foot, 7 inches tall,
w e ig h in g 175 p o u n d s, w ith
b la c k h a ir a n d b ro w n ey e s.
O rozco should be considered
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Fourth Arrest in Eastgate
Theater Murders
Man Arrested in
Goody’s Market
Robbery
Frederick James Dorough,
26, has been arrested as a sus­
pect in the Oct. 1 armed robbery
o f Vancouver’s G oody’s M ar­
ket at 3814 Kauffmann.
Police officers were called to
the Value Inn to make the arrest
on Oct. 3. Because of the nature
of the crime and information re­
garding Dorough’s possession
of firearms, necessary areas of
the motel were evacuated.
Rakim Malik DuPriest. 41, has
been taken into custody in con­
nection with the slayings o f 34-
year-old Ramona L. McGee and
44-year-old Terry Lee Spencer.
Their bodies were found in a ve­
hicle in a parking lot at 2020 S.E.
82nd Ave, the site of the former
Eastgate Theater.
DuPriest was arrested at the
Multnomah County Courthouse,
where he was making a grand jury
appearance. He was lodged in the
Justice Center without bail and is
the fourth person to be charged in
connection with the case.
On May 24, 23-year-old M at­
thew Justice Propst was indicted
by a grand jury on multiple counts
of aggravated murder and first
degree robbery. Two juveniles,
whose names have not been re­
leased, have been charged with
first degree robbery.
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