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April 27-28, 2012
YOUR FRIDAY/SATURDAY WEEKEND PLANNER DRAMA:
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Chance of showers this weekend
Races, activities at Jefferson Expo
Lowland lakes open for fishing
‘Paragon Springs’ on Sequim stage
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Forks High School student Ismael Ramos Contreras has joined the ACLU lawsuit against the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border Patrol is accused of racial profiling Two from Forks plus man from Neah Bay join lawsuit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEATTLE — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol that focuses on the agency’s actions on the North Olympic Peninsula and seeks to bar agents from making traffic stops. The lawsuit says people are being pulled over and questioned “without reasonable suspicion.” Jose Sanchez and Ismael Ramos Contreras of Forks, and Ernest Grimes of Neah Bay, are the complainants in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal District Court in Seattle.
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Valerie Jackson of the Olympic Peninsula Equine Network tends to horses on Wednesday at a farm near Carlsborg that were seized from their previous owner by the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
Horses ready for homes Seized 2 months ago, the animals all are recovering
Expanded Peninsula presence The suit stems from tensions between immigrants and an expanded Border Patrol presence on the Peninsula, which, the lawsuit points out, doesn’t share a land border with Canada. The ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed the lawsuit on behalf of the three Peninsula residents. Two are Clallam Bay Corrections Center prison guards — one Latino, one African-American — while the third is a Latino Forks High School senior. All are U.S. citizens, the suit says. “People are being stopped based solely on their appearance and ethnicity,” said Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which also joined the suit. TURN
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SEQUIM — All but three of the 16 horses seized by the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office from a pasture near Sequim in February have been taken by rescue organizations and the horses’ former owners. The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office seized the horses Feb. 16, saying the animals were suffering from varying degrees of starvation and malnutrition and were estimated to be underweight by between 50 and 200 pounds each.
The horses were seized after a veterinarian certified that their condition represented severe neglect, said Deputy Tracey Kellas, Clallam County Sheriff’s Office’s animal control officer. All are recovering. Some are being sheltered temporarily and need permanent homes, Kellas said.
The horses were the responsibility of Buffy Campbell, 41, and her daughter, Heather Gouldart, 19, who kept the horses in a rented pasture off Olson Road southwest of Sequim. Campbell agreed to give up custody of the horses to the Sheriff’s Office on March 12. In February, the owner of the propNo charges filed erty rented by Campbell called the Sheriff’s Office, concerned that the Charges have not been filed. horses were in severely malnourished Prosecutors are making sure all of condition. the details in the case are perfect, KelTURN TO HORSES/A6 las said.
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Alert store manager saves woman from being scammed out of $1,900 BY JEFF CHEW PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — Jeff Lundstrom thought it was a little suspicious when a 79-year-old woman approached him to ask how she could wire $1,900 to her grandson who was in trouble and at the American embassy in Barcelona, Spain. She already had made a withdrawal from the bank and had cash in hand. “As soon as I hear that, it’s just a big red flag,” said Lundstrom, who has worked as an assistant store manager at the Sequim QFC supermarket in Bell Creek Plaza on East Wash-
ington Street for more than two years. QFC is a Western Union outlet that wires money for a fee. Lundstrom, who also owns Nelson’s Duckpond & Lavender Farm in Carlsborg and has worked for QFC stores for 20 years, talked her out of it last week. Before she forked over the money, Lundstrom recommended she find her grandson’s real whereabouts. “While she was here, she was able to call her son and found [her grandson] was not in Barcelona, Spain,” Lundstrom said. “She was so upset and rat-
Wrote a search warrant Green wrote a search warrant to track it down, found out when the call came in, contacted the phone company and was told the call was untraceable. He hasn’t heard of any other attempts since, he said Thursday.
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Port Angeles Deputy Chief Brian Smith said it’s a common scam but was not aware of a recent occurrence in town.
Learned to be suspicious The woman targeted at the Sequim QFC, Sylvia Latshaw of Sequim, said she has learned to be suspicious in the future of those who ask for money. Latshaw said she was victimized two times before for more than $50,000, one being an investment scam and the other a phone scam of “a few thousand dollars.”
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tled by the whole thing.” A similar scam was attempted in Port Townsend six months ago or longer, said Port Townsend Sgt. Ed Green. “They averted it,” he said. “When they got off the phone, they called their grandson and found out he was fine.”
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Jeff Lundstrom, assistant manager of the Sequim QFC, was asked by a 79-year-old woman to wire money to Barcelona, Spain.
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