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March 13, 2020
Public safety calls
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• Speeding, 8:19 a.m. March 9,
location not given. After officer
smelled marijuana in car, minor
driver was given field sobriety
tests and failed. He was booked
at Clatsop County Jail for driving
under the influence of intoxicants
and cited for going 75 in a 55
mph zone and having no insur-
ance. Two passengers were cited
for being minors in possession of
marijuana.
• Equipment violation, 2:29 p.m.
March 10, Highway 202 south
of Tapiola Park, Astoria. James
George Walters, 49, of Astoria
was arrested on suspicion of
driving under the influence of
intoxicants and cited for having
no operator’s license. (OSP)
F ire and serViCe Calls
• Live power line onto road, 7:59
a.m. March 7, Highway 101 Busi-
ness just north of Old Youngs Bay
Bridge. Highway closed for more
than an hour. (OSP)
• Carbon monoxide alarm, 9:02
p.m. March 9, 700 block North-
west Warrenton Drive.
M ediCal Calls
• Emergency patient arriving by
helicopter, 5:26 p.m. March 4,
Coast Guard Station Astoria.
• Diabetic emergency, 8:30 p.m.
March 4, 200 block Southwest
Alder Avenue.
• Difficulty breathing, 10:23 a.m.
March 6, 100 block south High-
way 101.
• Heart issues, 3:45 p.m. March 7,
1600 block Ensign Lane.
• Chest pain, 8:36 p.m. March 7,
800 block Pacific Drive, Ham-
mond.
• Unconscious person, 9:05 a.m.
March 8, 33200 block Sunset
Beach Lane.
• Issues with high blood pressure,
11:49 p.m. March 8, 100 block
Northwest Fourth Street.
• Possible stroke, 12:16 p.m.
March 9, 1100 block Northwest
Warrenton Drive.
• Diabetic issues, 5:19 p.m. March
9, 500 block Date Avenue.
• Difficulty breathing, 8:02 p.m.
March 9, 33100 block Oregon
Lane.
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Five arts groups with local ties win state grants
Small grants that
can make a big dif-
ference in ensuring
residents have access
to the arts have been
awarded to 101 orga-
nizations statewide
by the Oregon Arts
Commission.
Five of those groups
are based in or have
ties to Clatsop Coun-
A class poses while taking a break at Astoria Arts
ty.
They are Astoria and Movement Center.
Arts and Movement
Center, Astoria Visual Arts, Hoffman Center for the Arts profit
in Manzanita, North Coast
Chorale, and 45th
Parallel of Portland,
which has been lend-
ing musicians and
performing this year
at the Liberty The-
atre.
The small operating
grants are designed
to provide operating
support to groups
with budgets under
$150,000.
Eligibility is limited
to established non-
groups that provide
ongoing, sustained artistic
programming and outreach
programs.
Each organization received
$1,494.
“This grant program was
developed to increase the
Arts Commission’s support
of Oregon’s small arts provid-
ers,” Arts Commission Chair
Anne Taylor said.
“These organizations fre-
quently represent the only
arts presenter for remote and
underserved regions of the
state,” she said.
Man pleads not guilty to 11 charges after downtown pursuit
male subject run to the driv-
er’s door and a female jump
The man who led officers on into the right front passenger
a high-speed chase through seat,” Sgt. Jim Pierce wrote in
downtown Warrenton on Feb. a probable cause declaration.
29 pleaded not guilty to nu- “I turned my patrol car broad-
merous charges this week.
side as the male driver … at-
Cody Alexander Arnett, 27, tempted to ram the side of my
of Vancouver was arrested af- patrol vehicle.”
ter a manhunt around the Pre-
A chase ensued through
marq Center and Shilo Inn.
downtown. A woman headed
According to police reports south on Main Avenue near
and court documents, Arnett the high school told police the
and a woman who was with white Audi came at her vehi-
him both were driv-
cle in her lane, nearly
ing vehicles stolen
striking her head-on
from the Vancouver
and forcing her to
area. At some point,
swerve quickly, ac-
while Arnett was
cording to a court
driving a white Audi
document.
and the woman was
The Audi contin-
driving a Ford Ex-
ued north on Main
plorer, a communi-
then headed toward
cation between them
Highway 101 along
prompted a witness
Harbor Drive, where
near the KOA camp-
police lost sight of
Arnett
ground on Ridge
him. A short time lat-
Road to call police to
er, a sheriff’s deputy
report a case of road rage.
spotted the car parked at Shi-
Arnett was swerving toward lo Inn. A clerk said the couple
the SUV as if he were trying came in and rented a room,
to run her down. When of- but took off running down
ficers arrived, she was near the hall before she could give
Parkview Apartments and the them a key, according to the
Audi was stopped beside her. declaration.
She got into his vehicle and he
The woman was found hiding
sped away as police arrived.
in a hallway off the lobby and
“I was approaching from told officers Arnett was her
the south and observed a boyfriend and she was afraid
The Columbia Press
of him, which is why she got in
the car. She claimed to have no
knowledge of the stolen Ford
Explorer. Yet a witness had
snapped a photo of her inside
the vehicle when the road rage
incident first began.
The Ford had been stolen
the previous day from a busi-
ness in Vancouver. A man
slipped into the back room at
Party City and stole the purs-
es of two female employees,
according to a police report.
He used the keys from one of
them to steal the SUV.
The white Audi had been sto-
len off the lot at REV Motors
in Beaverton.
Arnett has been charged with
six counts of recklessly endan-
gering others, two counts of
auto theft, fleeing/attempting
to elude police, reckless driv-
ing and attempting to commit
a Class A felony. He pleaded
not guilty to all charges during
an arraignment Monday.
The name of the woman has
been withheld pending issu-
ance of a warrant for her ar-
rest.