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August 3, 2016
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Prescription Trafficking Busted
20 defendants charged with opiate distribution
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Julie Ann Demille
A federal grand jury in Portland
has indicted a licensed Oregon
nurse practitioner and her office
manager along with 18 co-con-
spirators for unlawfully disbursing
oxycodone and hydrocodone out
of a southeast Portland wellness
center.
Julie Ann Demille, 58, and
Osasuyi Kenneth Idumwonyi, 55,
are at the forefront of the case for
Holding Ground
borhoods - even more estranged
from social services.”
net is simply insufficient to catch
While the mayor seeks to keep
these people. They will be dis- the evacuation benevolent and
persed into surrounding neigh- symbiotic between the housed
and the houseless, some of the
campers feel quite the opposite
effect is in place.
Tyrone, a minority camper
that occupies a section on the
Springwater just underneath
where the I-205 meets Southeast
92nd, expressed a mild inequali-
ty in treatment during these first
stages of the removal process.
“They got favoritism out
here,” Tyrone told the Portland
Observer, sharing pictures on his
shattered phone screen of parts
of his camp that had been stepped
on and ripped apart by city code
enforcement officials who didn’t
do that to other camps.
Word of the eviction extension
blew through the encampment
shortly after it was announced
last week, but a combination of
rumors and previous behavior
by the city still leave Tyrone and
other campers uneasy.
“Thirty days is still just 30
days,” Tyrone said. “I hear
they’re going to have military
forces out here to do it.”
Another
camper
named
Damien expressed more wor-
ry over plans to accommodate
some homeless individuals to a
nearby vacant property, the so-
called Kalbrenner site off South-
east 105th Avenue and Reedway.
Advocates for the homeless say
the property has environmental
and human health risks due to
contaminated soil.
Damien also shows frustration
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conspiring to provide the co-con-
spirator defendants with prescrip-
tion opiates at the price of $200
per visit at their Fusion Wellness
Clinic, 2442 S.E. 101st Ave.
Demille has also been charged
with two counts of falsifying state-
ments to the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration, which worked with the
Oregon State Board of Nursing on
the 15 month long investigation.
The co-conspirators involved in
the case range in ages from 30-63
and are accused of helping Demi-
lle and Idumwonyi distribute the
drugs to at least 400 customers
while the Fusion Wellness Clinic
was still open for business.
If found guilty, each defendant
could face a maximum sentence of
20 years in prison and a $250,000
fine, authorities said.
with some of the camps on the
Springwater Corridor that are
not kept clean. As garbage and
waste collects, the bad image the
campers are receiving grows.
“People just need to keep their
camps clean and there wouldn’t
be a problem,” Damien said.
He also mentions how the
corridor offers more in terms of
nooks and crannies for campers
to set up and have more priva-
cy, which is to him something
the 5-acre Kalbrenner property
lacks.
Both men admitted that theft
and altercations are fluidic oc-
currences throughout the en-
campment and haven’t been al-
leviated with the recent tensions.
“I knew this girl whose boy
would beat her every day and
I tried helping her but she kept
running back to him. I can’t
stand that,” Tyrone added, also
bringing up a shooting and a fire
that happened along the trail.
“I guarantee if my kids were
still out here that shooting and
that fire wouldn’t have hap-
pened,” Tyrone said.
He asserted that his children
were taken from him during a
social service provider walk-
through at the beginning of the
mayor’s sweep process. He’s
unsure of where his children are
currently located.
Hales said a major cleanup in
one month will balance our need
to treat people humanely, with
the “need to restore the Spring-
water to a public asset.”
For Tyrone, at least, the city’s
restorative attempts may be
fruitless efforts.
“Peoples’ still not gonna
leave,” Tyrone says. “We’re
gonna hold our ground.”