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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.
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Police had asked that the names
o f customers be logged to thwart a
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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
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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.
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For all sales of medicine contain
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Meth cooks buy or
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Acting on the recommendation
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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,
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