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Barriers to Fair Housing Fought
financing, purchasing or renting a home based
on race, color, religion, national origin, gender,
disability, sexual orientation source of income
or the presence of children in the household.
The public hearing is needed to evaluate
current housing barriers and make recommen
dations for addressing them, officials said.
The last time a sim ilar review was com
pleted, in 1996, discrim ination based on race
in both renting and purchasing hom es was
verified. It resulted in the developm ent of
Housing Connections, a w eb-based service
that allows users to search for a wide variety
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Barriers to fair housing will be the subject of
a public hearing by the Multnomah County
Housing and Community Development Com
mission on W ednesday, July 6 at 7 p.m. at the
Multnomah Building, 501 S.E. Hawthorne, in
the first floor Board Room.
Individuals and organizations are invited to
testify on any barriers to fair housing and
housing choice, including discrimination in
Medical Pot Crackdown in California
Suspects accused
of also trafficking
street drugs
(AP) - Federal drug agents launched a wide-
ranging crackdown on medical marijuana pro
viders in northern California, arresting at least
17 people last week in San Francisco and Sac
ramento.
Fifteen people were arrested in San Fran
cisco as drug agents searched three pot clubs
and more than 20 homes and businesses June
22. authorities said.
The searches capped a two-year investiga
tion into an alleged marijuana and ecstasy traf
ficking ring, Drug Enforcement Administration
agent Javier Pena said Thursday.
“It was a large scale operation” with ties to
other countries, Pena said. The pot clubs were
fronts for operations having to do with “illegal
cultivation of marijuana, money laundering and
distribution o f ecstasy,” he said.
An attorney for a Sacramento husband and
wife who were also arrested said he believed the
sweep may have been prompted by the U.S.
Supreme Court’s medical marijuana ruling two
weeks ago. The high court said federal law
prohibiting the sale and distribution of narcot
ics supersedes state medical marijuana laws.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence
Brown in Sacramento said the Supreme Court
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eral authorities have jurisdiction.”
California is one of 10 states, including Or
egon and Washington that allow the use of
marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Dr. Marion Fry. 48, and her husband, attor
ney Dale Schafer, 50, were arrested on a sealed
indictment handed up a week ago. It charged
them with conspiracy to grow and distribute
marijuana between August 1999 and Septem
ber 2001 from their storefront California Medi
cal Research Center in Cool, a Sierra foothill
community northeast of Sacramento.
“Marijuana (for medicinal purposes) was
legal in this part o f the United States until this
month, so any attempt to hold them as serious
criminals would have been, I think, inappropri
ate,” said their attorney, Laurence Lichter. “They
are charged with violating the old marijuana
laws, which are now back in effect, and I’m
hoping that the jury will s e e ... that Dr. Fry was
acting as a physician.”
sity efforts five years ago. “We commented that the city’s Diver
The City of Vancouver has been Champion of the Year.
“W e are extremely proud of this have worked very hard to take the sity Policy and Advisory Council
recognized for its efforts at respond
has stepped forward in the effort to
ing to the needs of its diverse popu award,” said Assistant City Man steps necessary to ensure that we
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In addition, testimony will be accepted about
a city of Portland policy that guides the location
o f new publicly funded affordable housing
units.
The hearing will be accessible to people
w ith m obility im pairm ents. T estim ony can
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testimony must be received by July 29.
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Police Looking
for Burglar
The Portland Police Bureau
asking the public for assistance in
locating 66-year-old W illiam
Clifford Grandy.
Grandy is currently wanted on
a no bail parole violation warrant
in connection with a prior convic
tion for burglary in the first de
gree.
Grandy is a transient and de
scribed as a 5-foot 7-inch tall black
male weighing approximately 200
pounds.
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Major Lottery Scam Letter Mailed
Elderly targeted to give personal information
An elderly woman recently lost
$7,000 to a lottery scam, along
with six other victims who were
duped by the elaborate scheme.
Letters have been sent out to
people in states such as Georgia,
Florida, California and Pennsyl
vania stating “our records indi
cated that we have not received a
claim for your last year’s shared
winnings” up to $750,000. The
letterheads list two Salem, Ore.-
area addressed fraudulent com
panies called “Golden Lotto Mega
Bucks” and “Top Hat Lotto.’
The Oregon State Police Detec
tives assigned to the Gaming En
forcement Division are investigat
ing the fraudulent letters.
The letters ask the victim to call
an “866” phone number, where they
are told a check equaling 1 percent
of the “unclaimed winnings” will be
sent to them to help pay the pre
mium prior to receiving the award.
Upon receipt of the check the vic
tim is asked to deposit the check
into their account, then withdraw
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Crack Cocaine,
Handguns Seized
Shawn Rashad Jones, 28, has
been charged with distribution
of a controlled substance, pos
session of a controlled substance
and being a felon in possession
of a firearm.
He was arrested May 25 af
ter local police and federal law
enforcement officers seized ap
proxim ately three ounces of
crack cocaine, three semi auto
matic handguns, a ballistic vest
and approximately $3,000 from
a home at 618 N.E. 93rd Ave.