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The Portland Tribune, Aug 5, 2005, Updated Oct 30, 2009

CRIME

Murder suspect nabbed

The victim of a Monday afternoon shooting died Wednesday of his injuries and his roommate has been charged with murder.

Clair David Olsen, 51, became Portland’s 18th homicide victim this year, two days after being shot at the Ruttinger Mobile Home Park near Southeast 72nd Avenue and Flavel Street around 1:15 p.m. Olsen was conscious and walking despite the wound in his head when police arrived, but his condition deteriorated rapidly.

Portland police arrested his roommate, Matthew William Evans, 27, after an initial investigation Monday and charged him at first with attempted murder. Police upgraded the charge to murder Wednesday following Olsen’s death.

It was the seventh 2005 homicide to take place in Southeast Portland, one of which was an officer-involved shooting.

Police ask that anyone with information about the Olsen shooting call homicide detectives Ken Whattam, 503-823-0696, or Steve Ober, 503-823-4033.

Tip follows hit-and-run

Portland police arrested a Longview man Tuesday in the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist on an Interstate 5 onramp near Delta Park the previous evening.

Acting on a tip, Portland police visited George Hoff, 51, at home Tuesday afternoon. After speaking with him, police arrested Hoff and charged him with second-degree manslaughter and felony hit-and-run. They also seized his teal 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse, which had front-end damage.

Frank Vanerstrom, 44, died Monday around 7:40 p.m. after a teal or turquoise sports car with a spoiler hit his bike at high speed and took off north on I-5.

Hoff’s Eclipse has a spoiler.

Vanerstrom was the 10th person killed by a car while walking or riding in a Portland roadway this year. He was the third bicyclist killed.

Pills and $100,000 seized

Police from three agencies made two arrests and seized more than 22,000 prescription pain pills and $100,000 in cash after serving four search warrants Wednesday in Portland.

A nine-month investigation netted Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet and Soma that investigators believe was to be distributed illegally. Police arrested Marcella Manning, 37, and her boyfriend, Brad Lockett, 49, after undercover officers bought pills illegally from their cache.

The two sold cocaine together in the 1980s, which resulted in a federal conviction.

Officers in the Portland police Drugs & Vice Division, Tactical Operations Division, Northeast Precinct Neighborhood Response Team and Special Emergency Reaction Team worked with the Regional Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, state police SWAT and U.S. Agriculture Department investigators to build the case and serve the warrants.

Lockett faces a charge of distribution of a controlled substance and is in state custody. Manning faces a federal charge, also for distribution.

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