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High-speed chase ends after spike strip near Mt. Vernon
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JOHN DAY — Several
people were injured when
a high-speed chase on
Dec. 6 ended after officers
deployed a spike strip just
west of Mt. Vernon.
Two people from Col-
orado and one from Ore-
gon were transported to
the hospital after officers
ended the pursuit at mile-
post 145 on Highway 26,
according to Oregon State
Police Public Information
Officer Capt. Timothy R.
Fox.
The driver, Jeremy
McLaughlin, 29, Strasburg,
Colorado, received minor
injuries and was trans-
ported to jail after the hos-
pital. He was charged with
eluding in a vehicle, reck-
less driving, five counts
of reckless endangering,
driving under the influ-
ence of drugs, second-de-
gree assault, third-degree
assault, possession of meth-
amphetamine and posses-
sion of heroin, Fox said.
A 57-year-old male pas-
senger, Robert Malloy of
Strasburg, was transported
to the hospital with minor
injuries and later trans-
ported to the Grant County
Jail, where he was lodged
for felon in possession of
a restricted weapon. He
was carrying a dagger after
being convicted of first-de-
Malloy
McLaughlin
gree theft in Ohio in 2004,
according to information
filed Monday in Grant
County Circuit Court.
Nadia Runkle, a 27-year-
old female passenger of
Dallas, Oregon, was trans-
ported to the hospital with
serious injuries and later
airlifted to St. Charles in
Bend.
McLaughlin’s mother
reported he threatened
her with a knife on the
afternoon of Dec. 6 in
Prineville, according to
Prineville Police Depart-
ment Capt. Larry Seymour.
The mother told police
she was driving with her
husband in the front passen-
ger seat, while McLaugh-
lin and his girlfriend were
in the backseat injecting
heroin, Seymour said. The
mother threatened to call
the police on their drug
use, and when she did,
McLaughlin
reportedly
brandished a knife and
threatened to kill her, Sey-
mour said.
The mother was able
to exit the vehicle in
Prineville, and McLaugh-
Contributed photo
A 1999 Honda Accord crashed into two pickups on Dec. 6, 2019, after officers deployed spike
strips following a high-speed chase that ended just west of Mt. Vernon.
lin got out and threatened
her to get back in the vehi-
cle, Seymour said. The
mother screamed for some-
one to call the police, and
McLaughlin got back into
the driver’s seat and began
traveling east with the
other two passengers, Sey-
mour said.
All three people in the
vehicle had reportedly been
using heroin for a couple
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Pharmaceutical group files suit
against new prescription laws
Oregon laws
aim at pricing
transparency
By KRISTIAN
FODEN-VENCIL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
SALEM — The drug
company
trade
group
PhRMA has filed a legal
challenge to a pair of Oregon
laws designed to curb pre-
scription prices.
The
Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufactur-
ers of America filed suit in
Eugene against two bills that
passed the Oregon Legisla-
ture with bipartisan support.
PhRMA is challeng-
ing House Bill 4005, which
passed in 2018, requir-
ing drug companies to
“report annually informa-
tion to Department of Con-
sumer and Business Ser-
vices regarding prices of
prescription drugs and costs
associated with developing
and marketing prescription
drugs,” according to the bill’s
legislative summary.
The drug trade group is
also suing over House Bill
2658, which requires drug
companies to notify the
DCBS 60 days ahead of time
if they’re planning substan-
tial price increases on pre-
scription drugs.
Numi Lee Griffith with
the watchdog OSPIRG said
the suit was no surprise.
“They’re on extremely
flimsy legal basis and it’s just
a sign of desperation now
that we actually have the
requirements coming in and
kind of exposing the extent
of the price gouging that the
industry is engaged in,” said
Griffith.
“They tried a similar tac-
tic in California after the
Legislature there passed a
transparency law. It’s a des-
perate attempt to keep their
price-gouging
practices
going with no rules and reg-
ulation — practices that are
costing Oregonians their sav-
ings, their homes, and even
their lives.”
PhRMA executive James
Stansel said in a statement
there’s no doubt Oregonians
are struggling to afford health
care, but the two bills are mis-
guided and unconstitutional.
“Unfortunately, HB 4005
and HB 2658 do nothing to
help them. It is our hope that
these misguided and uncon-
stitutional policies are put
aside so that we can instead
focus on reforms that will
actually help people better
afford their medicines, such
as capping out-of-pocket
costs, making monthly costs
more predictable and sharing
negotiated savings on medi-
cines with patients,” Stansel
said.
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on the 1999 Honda Accord
McLaughlin was driving.
Later that afternoon,
OSP troopers received the
call, Fox said.
Law enforcement offi-
cers from OSP, Grant
County Sheriff’s Office,
Wheeler County Sheriff’s
Office and the Forest Ser-
vice located the suspect
vehicle at milepost 131 on
Highway 26. When officers
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days, Seymour said.
It was also reported there
were multiple knives in the
car, a handgun and pos-
sibly a homemade bomb,
Seymour said. Police con-
firmed McLaughlin had a
nationwide felony arrest
warrant out of Colorado
and were warned he would
not be cooperative.
Prineville police put
out an attempt to locate
attempted to stop the vehi-
cle, a pursuit ensued with
the suspect vehicle reach-
ing speeds of about 95 mph
and traveling into oncom-
ing traffic at least five
times, running oncoming
vehicles off the roadway,
Fox said.
At about milepost 138,
the driver instructed his
female passenger to cut
the straps that were hold-
ing down several plastic
containers to the roof of
the car, which sent them
directly into the path of the
pursuing police vehicles,
nearly causing a crash, Fox
said.
At about milepost 145,
OSP and John Day police
officers
successfully
deployed spike strips on
the suspect vehicle, which
traveled a short distance
and crashed into two pick-
ups that had stopped on the
side of the roadway, Fox
said.
The OSP Bomb Squad
responded to the scene to
search for a reported explo-
sive device, but none was
found, Fox said.
The westbound lane
was shut down for about
10 hours. Traffic control
was conducted by the Ore-
gon Department of Trans-
portation. Frontier Tow-
ing responded and towed
the three involved crashed
vehicles from the scene.
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