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C HALLENGING P EOPLE TO S HAPE A B ETTER F UTURE N OW
Woman
Beaten
at Bar
BIRTHDAY
The family of Krystal
Guinn seeks the man
who assaulted her
By Lisa Loving
Of The Skanner News
See ASSAULT on page 3
INDEX
News ................2,3,5,6
Opinion .....................4
A & E ......................5,8
Food..........................6
Bids/Classifieds ..........7
PHOTO BY JERRY FOSTER
T
he family of a young woman assault-
ed at an Old Town “micro-bar” has
put up a $2,750 reward for informa-
tion leading to the arrest and conviction of
her attacker.
Krystal Guinn, 25, was punched in the
face early in the morning of Jan. 5 at the
Black Book after turning down the advances
of a young man who was sexually harassing
her, her family says, and could lose the
range of vision in her right eye.
The attacker is described as a black male
between 21 and 27 years old, slight to medi-
um build; 5’6”-5’8”tall, medium/ dark com-
plexion skin, little or no facial hair; wearing
a snap-back Oakland A’s hat, and a plaid
shirt, either green or red in color, with jeans
and white athletic shoes.
Portland Police are investigating and ask-
ing for tipsters to send info to
crimetips@portlandoregon.gov.
The Guinn family has also put out numer-
ous appeals, and Krystal’s father, Chris
Guinn III, has put out his cell phone number
in the hopes someone will call or text him
with clues, that number is 503-703-4462.
Black Book owner Peter Webb did not
return calls for comment this week.
Krystal has had major eye surgery since
the incident (and she may require more),
which happened days before the start of her
last term at Portland State University and
she has been unable to work.
Still recovering from her latest surgery,
her family was waiting for the latest word
from her doctor on Friday.
“She’s afraid, she can’t work, she had to
quit school,” said her father this week. “She
couldn’t start her last term in college
because this happened right before she was
about to go back – which caused her to lose
her health insurance as well, because she
had her medical insurance through school.
“So it’s been a domino effect of things in
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales celebrated his birthday last week, Wednesday, Jan. 22, with a local student who has
the same birthday, Justece Kinney-Craig, a Big Brothers/Big Sisters “little,” at St. Andrew Nativity School on Northeast
Portland. Pictured above at left, Hales’ staffer Grace Uwagbae, Justece and Hales at the school-wide celebration.
State Indicts Men on Sex Charges
Department of Justice, FBI crack down using interstate laws
Of The Skanner News
Federal officials this week
charged more than half a dozen
Portland-area men with pimping
offenses. The men are accused
of transporting sex workers
across state lines to engage in
prostitution.
One, Mark Miles, 35, is
accused of bringing Ivanice
Harris, 29, to Hawaii last year,
where she was murdered, appar-
ently while working.
U.S. Marines Master Sgt.
Nathaniel Crosby, 39, faces a
military trial March 17 in the
case. He has been charged with
unpremeditated murder, volun-
tary manslaughter, obstructing
justice, and attempting to
patronize a prostitute.
In Oregon, federal officials
today said another seven local
pimps are charged with trans-
porting sex workers across state
lines to Hawaii, Alaska,
Nevada, Idaho, and Minnesota.
No trial date has been
announced for the men.
They are, in addition to Miles:
Steven Huffman, Jr., 40, Jorge
Ortega, Jr., 32, Jermaine Hank-
ins, 38, Michael Willis, Jr., 28,
DeShawne Howard, 23, Samuel
Howard, Jr., 32, and Camillio
Carradine, 33.
The Department of Justice
press release on the indictments
listed each defendant along with
his colorful street name, such
“Meezilini,”
“Chocolate,”
“Flawless,” “Mackin Mike” and
“Killa.”
“Local traffickers are sending
young Portland-area women all
over the country to have sex
with strangers for money,” said
U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall
in a statement. “These young
women, far from home, are
being placed in grave danger, so
that their pimp can buy himself
a Mercedes, or a Cadillac, or an
expensive pair of jeans. The rea-
son traffickers do what they do
is because they think they can
get away with it; we are here to
show them they are wrong.”
The FBI led the investiga-
tions. Officials said two more
individuals have not yet been
See PIMPS on page 3
New Group Screens Kwame Ture Film
Pan-African People’s Revolutionary Party comes together in Portland
By Lisa Loving
Of The Skanner News
A
uthor and community organizer
Ahjamu Umi is building a new
chapter of the international All
African People’s Revolutionary Party in
Portland, starting with Pan-African
Film/Discussion Nights on the last Wednes-
day of every month. Their first event is,
“From Black Power, Forward to Pan-
Africanism! A Tribute to the Life and Con-
tributions of Kwame Ture (formally Stokely
Carmichael),” on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 6 to 9
p.m. at the Smith Memorial Student Center
at Portland State University, Room #329.
Umi is well-known to readers of The
Skanner News for his work in support of
elderly homeowners facing foreclosure and
also his writing, which includes a novel
about race and racism in rural Oregon,
“Find the Flower That Blooms.”
Kwame Ture was born in Trinidad and at
the age of 10, moved with his family to New
York City. While attending Howard Univer-
sity he joined the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee, enduring dozens
of beatings in the 1960s while organizing in
See TURE on page 3