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November 3. 2004 <riu |Jn rtlan h ©bscrticr Page B3 L aw & J ustice Minister Charged Meth Fight Targets Cold Remedies Cary. G. Pralt, resident and pastor o f E vangel Tem ple and Hope House in north Portland, w as a r r e s te d O c t. 26 on charges o f sexual abuse. Police said he is accused o f sexually abusing a child he met through his church. He was taken into custody during a traffic stop near North Portland B oulevard and Inter state A venue. Bail w as set at $500,000. Police ask that anyone with information about the case, call Cary G. Pratt them at 503-988-6400. Stores must put products behind counter trying to contain a growing meth for cold medicine containing pseu epidemic in Oregon, with the high doephedrine as the sole active in est per capita number of people gredient. undergoing meth addiction treat ment in the nation. (A P )— Retai I sales o f cold rem edies that can be readily converted into illegal methamphetamine will be restricted under new rules ap proved by state regulators. Retail sales of drugs such as Sudated had posed serious prob lems for law enforcement agencies Meth cooks buy or shoplift cold rem edies as a source o f p seu doephedrine, the active ingredient in both the legal medicine and the powerful illegal drug. Three people charged in murder case (AP) — Portland police say a local attorney who was found dead in a remote part of the Mount Hood National Forest was strangled after arranging a meeting with a woman he met through an adult telephone chat line. Two people are now facing charges in the death of Douglas Swanson. One is Lydia Marie Way, 22, whom police say fre quented pornographic phone and Internet chat services. The other is Stuwart Lueb, 32. Addition ally, police said Mark Hudgens was arrested and charged with theft in connection with the murder. Portland homicide detectives have traced Swanson's cell Douglas Swanson phone calls and found that his chat room contact with Way was not the first time he called women on adult telephone chat lines. Swanson, a married man with two sons, met Way sometime after leaving an evening confer ence on Oct. 19 at his 12-year- old son’s school in Portland. Police did not say where Serial Robber Arrested Bank Robbery Suspect Caught Portland police from the Central Precinct arrested N athan Keith M cNair on one count of robbery last month, after he left the scene of an armed robbery in downtown Portland. McNair is suspected o f target ing small businesses while only one or two female em ployees were on duty. During the robberies, he either implied that he had a hand gun or showed a large kitchen knife while demanding cash from the reg ister, police said. Nathan McNair Members of the FB I's Violent Crimes Task Force arrested James Goebel, 45, on bank robbery charges. Investigators suspect Goebel is responsible for as many as eight bank robberies in the Portland area between May 5 and Sept. 4. He currently faces one federal count o f bank robbery for the robbery o f U.S. Bank in Troutdale. Goebel was arrested at his home in the area of Southeast 51 Avenue and Hawthorne. K A f P II c o m m e r c ia l and r e s id e n t ia l c u s to m e rs in the P o r tla n d M e tr o p o lita n Personal & Group Photo Collages must show identification, accord ing to the rule. Police had asked that the names o f customers be logged to thwart a CRIME STOPPERS ( 5 0 3 ) 82 3 -H E L P 1 1 1 S.W. 2nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 0 4 Man Faces Arrest Warrants T he Portland Police Bureau and Crim e Stoppers need your help finding D ennis D ew ayne E lliott, 46, who is w anted for burglary and oth er w arrants. E llio tt has lived in n o rth east P o rtlan d , but m ay be s ta y in g w ith frie n d s a n y w h e re aro u n d the city . P o lice said he a lso co u ld be sta y in g on the stre e ts in the ce n tral p art o f the city . D etectives think he is likely to be unem ployed and using mass transit or borrow ed ve hicles to get around. He is described as a black m ale, about 5 feet 1 1 inches tall and 175 pounds. He has a scar on his chin, has been known to w ear his hair in braids or corn rows and often w ears a m us tache. He g enerally goes by “D enny" and has many aliases. Dennis Elliot Man Identified in House Robbery On Feb. 7, Robin into the house. The Lamont Thompson, friend fought his way 20, and another man free but was shot in are accused o f rob the hip as he exited bing two people at a the front door. Still, house in the 4600 he was able to call block o f Southeast police on his cell Taylor Street. phone as the sus The victims were pects fled. pistol whipped and Based on informa Robin Lamont b o u n d w ith d u ct tion provided by the Thompson ta p e in sid e the victim s, detectives house. During the attack, a friend were able to identify Thompson. o f the victims came to the front He faces multiple counts o f rob door. His knock was answered by bery, assault, kidnapping, burglary one o f the men who pulled him and other charges. Thompson is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 150 pounds, and has worn his hair in long braids. He has lived in northeast Portland, but his current address is un known. Detectives think he may have moved to Las Vegas where he might be enrolled in com mu nity college. He should be con sidered armed and dangerous. The second suspect is d e scribed as a black male between 18 and 25-years-old with a stocky build. He is about 5 feet lOinches tall with short hairorevenashaved head. 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 any unsolved felony crime, you need not give your name. Call Crime Stoppers at 503-823-HELP. 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The requirement was left out strict sales to licensed pharmacies erin that com plicates its conver o f the version of the new rule. Death Followed Adult Chat Swanson met Way, but authori ties suspect Way and Lueb, both methamphetamine addicts, had conspired to target Swanson and rip him off. T w enty-four hours after Swanson was last seen, two patrol officers found Lueb driv ing Swanson’s car on North Albina Avenue. That led detectives to Sw anson’s body near Fish Creek Road in the Mount Hood National Forest. An autopsy showed Swanson died of as phyxiation. Police say Lueb and Hudgens also made purchases and with drawals using Swanson's credit card soon after his death. The case will move to Clackamas County, largely be cause evidence so far indicates he was killed where his body was found in the Mount Hood N ational Forest, w ithin Clackamas County. sion into meth, can be sold by retail ers but only from behind a counter, the board ruled. 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