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August 20. 2003 Page A2 P olice Protest Plans Grow for Bush Visit CRIME STOPPEBS A Thursday March to ( 5 0 3 ) 823-H E LP 1 1 1 S.W. 2nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 0 4 take off from North Portland park Clues Sought in Man’s Murder Portland Police H om icide Investiga- had several bullets holes. ors, in cooperation w ith C rim e Stop- Investigators have yet to establish s jers, are asking for your help in solving i murder. On M onday, July 7, at about 3 :20 a.m., motive for the shooting. 23-yearold Andrew Ray M ikes, arrived was reportedly the passenger in the cai jy private vehicle at a local hospital when someone opened fire on the vehicle vith a fatal gunshot, injury. T he car, a near the intersection o f Northeast 44"' Av 1999 maroon, 4-door Ford Escort, driven (AP) — Both police and protest ers are planning for a possible rau cous day Thursday when Presi dent Bush visits for a fund-raiser on the University o f Portland cam pus in north Portland. Portland police are coordinating security with the U.S. Secret Ser vice and a White House advance team, hoping to avoid some pitfalls that led to major pol ice c lashes with dem onstrators a year ago at a money-raiser for Sen. Gordon Smith in Portland. Bush is expected to spend less by a 24-year old male friend o f the victim Mikes lived in southeast Portland anc Andrew Ray Mikes enue and Sandy Boulevard. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward o f up to $1,000fo r information, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you can remain anonymous. Call Crime Stoppers at 503-823-4357. A uthorities in M ontana have arrested a serial bank robbery sus pect from Portland. Joseph Alan Stevens, 23, was taken into custody last week after a traffic stop for driving under the influence o f intoxicants and reck less driving. On Aug. 5, a federal grand ju ry indicted Stevens for six bank rob beries in the greater Portland m et ropolitan area. A ccording to the charges o f assault and intim idation. served as a peacekeeper in the M iddle East has The N ational G uard is in the process o f dis been sentenced to alm ost six years in prison for charging the tw o m en, said K ay Fristad, a spokes beating tw o hom eless men. w om an for the G uard in Salem. Patterson and his best friend, 21-year-old A ndrew Lee Patterson, 24, o f Eagle Point w as fellow G uard m em ber C hadw ick Jam es Ritchie, sentenced last w eek in M edord. A lso charged in the case, 26-year-old Aaron targeted hom eless men and an East Indian motel A ndrew St. Jam es, o f M edford, w as released on ow ner in a series o f January attacks that police July 29 after serving m ore than 100 days in jail. A labeled hate crim es. Ritchie com m itted suicide National G uard m em ber, he pleaded guilty to after the motel ow ner assault. sting balls during last year’s Bush protest, said he hopes police are respectful o f citizens’ rights this time. Police C hief Mark K roekersaid the bureau’s main responsibility will be to safeguard the president. The Portland Peaceful Response Coalition and another coalition o f protest groups plan to gather about 10 a.m. Thursday at Columbia Park on North Lom bard and march southw est to the university on Willamette Boulevard, and to dem onstrate until 5 p.m. A counter-group that supports the president is also planning a rally during the visit at the same time on the comer o f North Willamette and Portsmouth Boulevards. Suspected Serial Bank Robber Captured Guardsman Sentenced in Homeless Attacks (A P) — An O regon N ational G uardsm an w ho time in Portland compared with last August, when his overnight stay at the downtown H ilton competed for attention with the disturbances outside. He is expected to fly in Thursday to attend a $2,000-a-person Bush- Cheney 2004 fund-raising luncheon at the Chiles Center on the Univer sity o f Portland campus, according to invitations. He then is scheduled to make a stop at a national forest in Central Oregon to draw attention to his “ Healthy Forest Initiative.” Alan Graf, a Portland lawyer who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city o f Portland and Portland and Beaverton police on behalf o f nine people who were pepper sprayed or hit with rubber FBI, he is a suspect in as m any^s 8 other robberies as well. Following his arrest, officers lo cated and arrested his companion Sara Mary Keup, 29, who also faces a grand jury indictment for her al leged involvement in one Portland bank robbery. Surveillance video shows the suspect in a series o f bank . robberies. A n y o n e w ith in fo rm a tio n about bank robberies in Oregon is asked to call the FBI at 503- 224-4181. W M O n M M N aM B IM S W M M N M O T M n N M M M N M M New Trial Scheduled in Police Beating W a itin g fo r yo ur PCC S c h e d u le to arrive? Forget about the mail, because we’ve made it easier. (AP) — A judge set a new trial Morse. “There is no reason to wait. The dateofO ct. 22 for the former police officer who was videotaped slam evidence is there. The witnesses ming a handcuffed teenager onto a are ready,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said car. 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Portland Community College LA Police Need New Ethic, Study Says (A P)— The Los Angeles Police Department needs to adopt a new professional ethic in its officer train ing programs to improve police performance in the field, a study released Thursday suggests. The nonprofit research group Rand Corp., which conducted the study for the city, also recom mended improving use-of-force, search-and-seizure and arrest pro- cedures. “The LAPD does not success fully communicate a unified mes sage to its officers, which creates a dangerous vacuum that individu als fill with their own interpreta tions o f proper behavior,” wrote study author Russell Glenn. The city commissioned the study for $350,000 as part o f a federal con sent decree after the Rampart cor Extra Lean Ground Beef Attention SENIORS Safeway Senior Shuttle Servicel Valu Pack. 85% Lean. O r 3-lb. Chub. 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