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Portland resident Destin Nichols was arrested for stealing PGE power lines after construction workers called to report his suspicious looking truck.
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West Linn Police officers arrested a Portland man, who claimed to work for Portland General Electric, for stealing downed power lines after construction workers called to report the man's suspicious mode of transporting the wires.
The two men, who arrived at their job site at S.W. 110th and Boeckman Road in Wilsonville, stopped the suspect, Destin Nichols, and questioned him about the power lines spilling out of the bed of his truck. Nichols reportedly told the men he was a PGE employee and was taking the wire to a PGE lot.
The workers, not convinced by Nichols' explanation, called in the suspicious activity and vehicle description to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office.
Nichols was pulled over at 7:45 a.m. by officers from the West Linn Police department and arrested and charged with a felony count of criminal mischief and theft as well as a misdemeanor count of failing to maintain a metal purchase record.
Nichols, 37, a Portland resident with criminal history of theft and controlled substance charges, will be arraigned March 31 in the Clackamas County Circuit Court. His bail has been set at $33,500.
Tweekers suck, if they put as much effort in to working as they do stealing they'd be pretty well off!!!
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:28 AM
At least he was smart enough not to plop a pole or two on top of everything.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:41 AM
each time a tweaker gets arrested and convicted for a theft crime we should chop off a finger, one for each convicton. hey, it's not the whole hand and i bet a lot of them would find god pretty quickly. these middle-aged, toothless, zit-faced tweakers are the worst, their non-paying, ungrateful butts are filling up hospitals and jails, why not just get an old oil tanker, put a thousand or so gakkers on it and set it adrift on the pacific? after 4 or 5 months w/o water or food the inevitable will occur and then we can fill it up again.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:51 AM
While I am glad they caught this person. I am more disturbed by one of the charges: the
"misdemeanor count of failing to maintain a metal purchase record"
We now need to keep records of all thing paid for?
Our own local goverment cant keep track of money spent, and we have this made up law??
Charge the man with real crimes and quit adding on crimes that aren't relevent
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Should of put a PGE sticker on his car door. What did this guy go to career criminal university.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:57 AM
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE DOGS!!!!!
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Oh man, this guy is hilarious. One nice thing about this, is that people this stupid usually do'nt live very long. They take plug in radios in the shower or pass out on train tracks. That picture made my day.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM
I'd like to know why his criminal past is even relevant to the story? Under our system of law, you are considered innocent until proven guilty. If you want to report his criminal past after convicted on this theft accusation fine, however reporting it prior to conviction in this and so many other stories really is not appropriate.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Dear "Ed" Welcome to the real world .
then end .
/you are welcome
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Dear Bill your assumption that we need to keep records for "all thing[s] paid for " is down right weird.
also Laws are in fact "Made Up" by the people for the people . they just don't show up at your house one day with a sixpack and tracking collar like the rest of your family
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM
"Nichols, 37, a Portland resident with criminal history of theft and controlled substance charges"
wow....there's some originality there for ya. Too bad he didn't get fried whilst picking up said power lines.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Incredibly smooth. I wonder who he'd sell it to?
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Ed said:
"I'd like to know why his criminal past is even relevant to the story? Under our system of law, you are considered innocent until proven guilty."
Its relevant because this is a newspaper, not a trial.
Dont taze me bro.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM
"DOGS ON PARADE" I wish you were a judge in our criminal justice system I bet you a lot of this drug users will not be around here anymore.
Be ready for the liberals hippies here in PDX to defend this poor drug user since is not his fault, in their minds it its society that failed this poor soul.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:24 PM
I'm from Western Australia and you all made me laff.
Get a dog upyaz!
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:45 PM
We need to start a tweeker vigilante group...go looking for these guys with a huge magnet or something.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:28 PM
"Upton O Goode" I totally agree with ya! Journalists needs to do something or write something in the paper or the tweb.:):):)
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Charge the man with real crimes and quit adding on crimes that aren't relevent - "Bill"
You know why they do that. If you don't, they pile on junk like that, so they can let you off on it, and then have the main one "stick" and look good for the government (sic) teat. It was a big mistake to let them become a business.
BTW, the paperwork thing would never fly anyway. You don't need to keep any information on what you buy. It is a good idea to keep it to CYA though.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:34 PM
I wonder how hard the cop was laughing when he pulled em over...LOL. If you're ever feeling down on yourself, read this story. It's a BIG self-esteem booster.
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 06:57 PM
That picture is classic. Look at how the wires are wound around the rack and on top of the canopy...that really took this guy some time. Which means no one questioned him for quite a while, either this guy looks really legit or society is really blind to their rotting surroundings. I'm willing to bet the latter is the case.
The Meth Zombie's are slowly being able to take over. Watch any George Romero movie and you know how this one will eventually end...I hope those construction workers are in my survival group - they were willing to do something for the good of their community...even if the Zombie is released due to over crowding and back wondering the streets for scrap metal by Saturday night...lets just hope its not your kids braces or the gold fillings in grandma's teeth next time.
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM
picture funny. still wetting.
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:23 AM
You have to love the ad on this page.
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Makes it all worth it.
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:50 AM
Aw, come on, man! We all do it. LOL!
Bet the guy votes Republican.
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:20 AM
33,500! haha he will make that in under a week after they let him out. when will we begin to be harder on these meth heads! as long as bush is in office and over looks it, probably never. only a couple of months before he is gone, woo woo!
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:28 AM
I'll bet he has friends,at junk yards,still wondering around.
News flash,he will be out before you know it and it will cost tax payers to defend him.
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Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:30 AM
After seeing the picture, I can't imagine why the construction workers didn't believe he was with PGE. I mean I see their trucks driving around filled with wire like that all the time (NOT).
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Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:28 AM
How did this get anti-bush comments in it?
It deserves a little fine tuning. Just remember, i'll bet a large sum of money, that when this guy was arrested he was carrying an Oregon Trail card and an uncashed SSI disability check. Brought to him courtesy of the liberals. Ask any officer you know how many folks that are booked for drug related crimes are packing the omnipotent Oregon Trail card. Believe me the response will sicken you. Yes Mr. and Mrs. Tax payer, you fund their habit. For this guy the metal is a supplemental income.
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Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 06:09 AM
Why can't the tweakers go haul away the remnants of The New Carissa? There is the mother lode of metal right there waiting to be taken to the scrapper!
It is true, if they worked half as hard at a legitimate job as they do stealing metal, they would probably have an OK life. Then again, they would be part of the machine- would have to pay taxes, SS, and worker's comp. Plus they would have to answer to someone, a boss or other supervisor. Not nearly as fun as stealing from others, eh?
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Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 06:27 AM
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Re: Portland resident arrested for stealing downed power lines
Hmmmmmm, was he going to sell those power lines for crack.....NO must be for meth. Ahh, what a good, contributing member of our society. :(
"Not surprised"
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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:04 AM