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-------------------------------------- Che $ortlani> (ßbseruer----------------------------- December w , 2001 B o x in g R e fe re e C h a rg e d w ith Sex A b u s e o f M i n o r (AP) - A 6 1 -year-old Port land man who has worked for years as a boxing referee and volunteer with sports and rec reation program s has been charged with four counts of sex abuse. Jerry R. Dusenberry is be ing held in the M ultnom ah C ounty D etention C enter on $1 m illion bail. P o rtla n d p o lice say the m other o f an eight-year-old boy in the Portland area re ported in late N ovem ber her child may have been molested. A fter interview s with the child and D usenberry, detec tives searched D usenberry’s home and found evidence link ing him to sexual activity with children, officials said. Since the initial investiga tion, police say they have iden tified additional victims. Jerry R. Dusenberry Dusenberry m ost recently was a volunteer with Portland Impact. He was form erly con nected with Portland Parks and Recreation program s, the U.S. O ly m p ic C o m m itte e a n d O lym pic team, the USA A m a teur Boxing Association, Babe Ruth Baseball, the Boy Scouts and the B oy’s C lub o f Port land. Woman Guilty of Forcing Prostitution (A P ) — A P o rtla n d w om an has pleaded guilty to taking an 11-year-old girl to V ancouver, British C olum bia and m aking her w ork “the kiddie stroll,” a street know n for underage prostitutes. M elinda M ae Carter, 25, faces a maximum o f five years in jail, but prosecutors will rec om m end a lighter sentence in exchange for her testimony against co-defendants, Jabari M cCrory, 26, and David M ar tin Walker, 26. M cC rory and W alker are scheduled to be tried on Jan. 14 on charges o f conspiracy and transporting a m inor across state lines to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors say M cCrory m et the victim at a Portland mall, and then introduced her OREGON’S SMOKEFREE WORKPLACE LAW A NEW LAW EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1. 2 0 0 2 UNDER OREGON'S NEW LAW MOST WORKPLACES ARE REQUIRED TO BE SMOKEFREE. For more information about the law, contact: www.heaithoregon.org/tobacco or call toll-free 1-866-621-6107 to W alker and C arter, who devised a plan to go to C anada so the girl and C arter could w ork as prostitutes. The girl was arrested in February, while on “the kiddie stroll.” Once in custody, she told her story to police. A C anadian ju dge dropped c h a rg e s a g a in s t C a rte r , M cC rory and W alk er b e cause officials from O regon’s O ffice for Services to C h il dren and Fam ilies would only let the girl testify through a videotaped statem ent. The O regon officials knew that A m erican prosecutors w ere pu rsu in g ch arg es in Portland and did not want the girl to testify tw ice, said John F. Deits, an assistant U.S. attorney. Vancouver Most Wanted Captured Binh “Jim m y” Nguyen, 29, a m an on the Vancou ver Police D epartm ent’s M ost W anted w eb page was cap tured Dec. 4 by detectives w ho located him at a finger n ail sh o p in d o w n to w n Gresham . N guyen is charged with a hom e invasion robbery at tempt. D e te c tiv e s fro m V ancouver’s M ajor Crim es Unit, acting on confidential in fo rm a tio n , lo c a te d N guyen at the nail shop and via a cell phone, m ade an appointm ent for services. W hen detectives entered the shop, they took Nguyen intocustody without incident Police Raid Nets Two Arrests in Vancouver Two men were arrested on drug charges and face investigation for mail theft after the Clark County Regional Swat team made a tacti cal entry Dec. 5 to serve a search warrant on a home at 15906N.E.4“1 Way in Vancouver. Police said the search resulted in discovery and seizure of binary explosives and blasting caps, methamphetamine, heroin, U.S. Postal “arrow keys,” mail lock mechanisms, a large quantity of stolen mail, counterfeit identities, counterfeit and washed checks, credit card production machinery and stolen or fraudulent credit cards. Thomas Dale Peterson, 24, of Hillsboro was arrested on an out standing felony warrant and a charge of possession of metham phetamine with the intent to de liver. Ahmed Mohammed Matia, J7, of Vancouver was arrested for * possession of methamphetamine. U.S. Postal Inspectors are con sidering federal charges against both men. Gun Records Lead to Arrest, (AP) — A sedfch warrant that led to the Portland arrest of a Leba nese native with terrorist training was issued on the basis of four felony convictions and his own ing and trying to buy firearms, federal court documents show. A Tigard gun dealer tipped au thorities after Ali Khaled Steitiye allegedly gave false information and refused to return a purchase application form. Steitiye, 39, was arrested early on the morning of Oct. 24 at his Beaverton apartment after agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms searched it and his vehicles, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. It is illegal for a convicted felon to possess a firearm or make a false statement to a dealer when attempt ing to buy one. The ATF affidavit contends Steitiye did both. Federal agents confiscated weapons, ammunition, computers, computer discs and components, documents and other material. Ali Khaled Steitiye They found $20,000 in cash in bundles of $2,000. Steitiye was convicted in 1984 in Tulsa, Okla., on felony counts o f larceny and jumping bond and in 1986 in Oregon for forgery o f a federal treasury check and ob struction o f correspondence, court documents show. Investigators say Steitiye told them he had received training at guerrilla camps in Lebanon. Dur ing the search of Steitiye’s apart ment, police found a plaque bear ing the word “Hamas,” a terrorist group that has been conducting su icid e b o m b in g s in Israel. Steitiye has not been charged with any terrorist activity. Man Wanted for 10 Store Robberies Portland Police Bureau Rob bery Detectives, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, are asking for your help in identifying an apprehending an individual be lieved responsible for a series of at least ten armed robberies to b u sin e sse s in n o rth east and southeast Portland and Gresham. The robberies were committed between Nov. 14 and Nov. 22. The suspect, who carries and displays a black colored handgun inside his coat, is described as a male white in his twenties, 5’7” to 5’9”, 160 to 180 pounds, with A surveillance camera shows a suspect for the robbery o f a Subway store. brown or light brown hair. 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Beginning Jan. 1, only O r egon residents will be given DMV identification cards. Ap plicants will have to show the same proof o f residency as needed for a driver’s license. Among the proofs of resi dency acceptable to the DMV are a bill with a residence ad dress, a utility bill, a checkbook with a printed address, canceled mail addressed to the applicant or a voter registration card. The DMV will accept as proof o f identity an original or certified copy o f a birth certifi cate, a photo identification card issu e d by a g o v e rn m e n t agency, such as a branch of the armed forces, a passport, an alien registration card, or a valid state or Canadian identification card. A hospital birth document is not acceptable. DMV director Loma Y oungs said applicants for ID cards or replacement drivers' licenses will be compared with digital photos on file in the DMV sys tem. About 75 percent of DMV license and cardholders have such photos, which are printed on the face of the card.
