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PaScA 2_______________________________________________ (E lli? ^ o r t l a n b ( f i b u m r __________________________________ November 13. 2002
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Winona Ryder Found Guilty
Celebrity will get probation and community service, not jail time
(A P) Winona Ryder has been
convicted of felony theft charges
for her now-famous shopping ex­
cursion at a Saks Fifth Avenue store,
but that doesn't mean the actress
will spend any time behind bars.
Pr<isecutor Ann Rundle said pro­
bation, c<immunity service and res­
titution are the probable penalties
for Ryder after she was found guilty
W ednesday of stealing more than
$5,500 worth of merchandise at the
Beverly Hills store last year.
“This case was never about jail
lime," Rundle said. “We wanted
Ms. Ryder to take responsibility for
her conduct.”
The jury convicted her of grand
theft and vandalism , the latter
charge for cutting sensor tags off
merchandise. The charges carried a
maximum sentence of three years in
prison, but Rundle pointed out it
was Ryder’s first offense and not a
violent crime.
The group of six men and six
women jurors deliberated less than
six hours.
Juror Walter Fox told NBC’s
"Today" show Thursday that ju ­
dressing rooms.
The tapes did not show Ryder
cutting off sensor tags with scis­
sors, but a security guard testified
she kxiked through door slats and
witnessed the vandalism.
Security staff testified that after
The tapes did not show Ryder cutting off'
sensor tags with scissors, hut a security •
guard testified she looked through door
slats and witnessed the vandalism.
rors had “some heated conversa­ Ryder was caught, she claimed a
tions, but there were really no major director had told her to shoplift to
prepare for a movie role.
differences.”
The most damaging evidence,
The jury was shown videotapes
of Ryder wandering through the Fox said, was the videotape of her
store’s designer boutiques and tak­ leaving the store and the testimony
ing a large number of items into from staff that when she wps appre­
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hended “she had merchandise that
belonged in the store that had not
been paid for and some o f it had
been vandalized."
Ryder was a portrait of com po­
sure as the verdicts were read. She
showed no emotion.
When asked about the verdict,
Ryder and her attorney, M ark
Geragos, declined tocomment until
after the Dec. 6 sentencing.
“Thanks for asking,” she said. “I
ju st can’t talk right now.”
Rundle, who sometimes chatted
with the defendant during the trial,
said, "I found Ms. Ryder to be a very
nice individual. Thi s was never about
her character, only her conduct.”
Ryder, who began her film career
as a teenager in 1986, earned Acad­
emy Award nominations for “Little
W om en” and “The Age of Inno­
cence.”
Winona Ryder is at the table ‘with her defense attorney as the
verdict is read in her trial in Beverly Hills.
Crimes Up for First Time in a Decade
New figures by the FBI show
that murder, rape and every other
violent criminal act except aggra­
vated assault rose last year, the
first year-to-year increase in over­
all crime in a decade.
The num ber o f m urders in­
creased for the second straight year,
following several years of decline,
according to the FBI, which com ­
piles its annual survey from crimes
reported by 17,(XX) law enforcement
agencies nationwide.
The 15,980 murders represented
a 2.5 percent increase over 2000,
while forcible rapes were up less
than 1 percent and robberies rose
Stripper Pleads
Guilty, Will Testify
Against Boyfriend
(AP) — A stripper pleaded
guilty T uesday to luring a m il­
lionaire auto glass businessm an
to a hotel room w here he was
robbed and shot to death.
B randi L. H u n g erfo rd , 26,
struck a deal in which she pleaded
to second-degree m urder in the
slay ing of Rick Chance and agreed
to testify against her boyfriend,
Robert D onald Lemke.
L em k e a lle g e d ly ro b b e d
Chance of a suitcase filled with $ 1
million in jew els and w atches and
killed him. The businessm an’s
body was found Aug. 9 in a hotel
room in suburban Phoenix.
3.7 percent. Aggravated assaults
fell by a half-percentage point,
reaching its lowest level since 1987.
The FBI did not include the Sept.
11 deaths at the World Trade C en­
ter, the Pentagon and the plane
crash in P en n sy lv an ia. T hese
deaths, the FBI said, “are different
from the day-to-day cfimes com ­
mitted in this country.”
The total number of crimes rose
2.1 percent last year, the first in­
crease from year to year since 1991,
the FBI said. But overall crime still
is down 10 percent compared with
1997, according to the report.
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Man Sought for Attempted Murder
Kenneth Wayne Phillip
Portland Police Bureau Detectives,
in cooperation with C rim e S toppers,
are asking for your help in locating
and apprehending K enneth W ayne
Phillips.
A felony arrest w arrant, charging
P hillips with A ttem pt'M urder, is on
file in M ultnom ah C ounty. In ad d i­
tion, a felony arrest w arrant on file in
C lackam as County charges Phillips
with Possession o f a C ontrolled S ub­
stance and the O regon Parole Board
has issued a w arrant for his arrest for
P robation V iolation. A ccording to
in v e stig ato rs, P h illip s should be
considered armed and extremely dan­
gerous.
Kenneth Wayne Phillips is a 45-
year old white male with a date of birth
ofM arch3,2002. Phillipsis5’7” tall and
weighs approximately 175 pounds with
brown hair and blue eyes.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 fo r information, reported to Crime Stoppers,
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