Oregon
Man who escaped from Oregon prison 30 years ago found in Georgia using dead child’s identity, officials say
A fugitive was arrested this week in central Georgia after being on the run for nearly 30 years, authorities said. The man escaped from an Oregon prison in 1994 and subsequently stole the identity of a child who had died in Texas decades earlier, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Steven Craig Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday by members of a regional task force in Macon, Georgia, who found him at around 2 p.m. at an apartment complex in the city, the Marshals Service said in a news release. Now 70, Johnson had been living under the alias William Cox since 2011.
He fled from a prison work crew in Oregon on Nov. 29, 1994, while serving a state sentence for sexual abuse and sodomy. His convictions more specifically included three counts of first-degree sex abuse and one count of first-degree attempted sodomy, CBS affiliate KOIN-TV reported.
Johnson had been serving his sentence at the Mill Creek Correctional Facility in Salem, about halfway between Portland and Eugene, the Oregon Department of Corrections said. The Mill Creek facility was a minimum security prison located just a few miles outside of the city of Salem, on an unfenced property covering around 2,000 acres, according to the department. Before it closed in 2021, the facility housed roughly 290 inmates who were within four years of release.
Johnson was wanted on an arrest warrant for escape in Oregon, where he has been listed for years among six of the state’s most wanted people. A wanted poster for Johnson issued by the Oregon Department of Corrections noted Texas as one potential location where he had fled, although authorities did not give more details as to his connection to Texas, if any. The poster said Johnson is “a pedophile and presents a high probability of victimizing pre-teen boys.” It cautioned that he “should not be allowed contact with children.”
The Marshals Service said that it took on Johnson’s fugitive case in 2015 at the request of the Oregon Department of Corrections. After spending nine years trying to find him, the agency said that “new investigative technology employed by the Diplomatic Security Service” finally helped develop meaningful leads in 2024.
In addition to adopting a fake name, the investigation also revealed that Johnson had stolen the identity of a child after escaping prison. The child died in Texas in January 1962, the Marshals Service said. Johnson obtained a copy of the child’s birth certificate and, soon after, obtained a Social Security number in Texas in 1995. The earliest record of Johnson with a Georgia driver’s license came in 1998.
Following his arrest in Georgia, Johnson was booked into the Bibb County Jail in Macon. He is awaiting extradition back to Oregon.
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The Oregon Ducks were fairly stunned when freshman outfielder Angel Laya announced he was entering the transfer portal last week. Now, the likely suspects are lining up around the corner for the freshman All-American slugger’s services.
On3’s Pete Nakos revealed that Laya has garnered interest from several SEC programs since entering the transfer portal, which won’t come as a shock to many Oregon baseball fans. Nakos reports that Texas, Texas A&M, LSU and Georgia have shown interest and appear to be frontrunners for one of the top available players in the portal.
The SEC was rumored to be a likely landing spot for Laya and other Oregon transfers given the NIL resources that the conference’s top programs have in comparison to the Ducks.
The Ducks’ season came to an end in SEC territory, being swept by Texas in the Austin Super Regional. After an otherwise stellar freshman campaign, Laya went 1-for-11 against the Longhorns with four strikeouts.
Laya starred for the Ducks from day one. He cranked two home runs in just his second game at PK Park and never took his foot off the gas after that. Laya finished the season slashing .296/.396/.538 with a .934 OPS and 47 RBIs. He set Oregon freshman records with 14 home runs, 49 runs scored and 120 total bases. Laya also showed rare patience at the plate for a young slugger, drawing 27 walks and 10 hit-by-pitches while striking out 34 times.
Oregon had hoped to build upon a Super Regional finish with a trio of terrific freshmen in the lineup. However, Laya’s decision to transfer was followed soon after by freshman designated hitter Naulivou Lauaki Jr. and sophomore catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus.
The Ducks have made a few additions in the portal so far, but their main goal is retaining valuable pieces like freshman catcher Brayden Jaksa and keeping their top committed recruits out of the MLB draft.
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Oakridge has been recognized as one of the top U.S. destinations for mountain bikers.
The 3,200-person city in the Cascade Range was ranked fifth on Outside Magazine’s list of the country’s best mountain biking towns, placing it in a category that includes places like Moab, Utah; Bentonville, Ark. and Durango, Colo.
The ranking cited the city’s more than 300 miles of trails into the Umpqua and Willamette national forests that surround it, and a vibe that is “timber town transitioned to tourism.”
Eugene Cathcart, part-owner of Willamette Mountain Mercantile, a bike shop in Oakridge, said the area has a hub and spoke layout.
“There’s all of these trails that act like spokes going out into the wilderness around us here, and they’re long,” he said. “A lot of them run through old-growth forest, and they have a really fun, playful character that works really well for mountain biking.”
Outside Magazine cited Oakridge as a prime location for enduro riding, a style of riding that often includes courses with steep terrain and challenging downhills.
“The combination of riding in steep, wooded areas and some of the technical features like roots and rocks make a lot of our trails not too beginner-friendly,” Cathcart said. “Some of our trails are accessible to beginners and range all the way up to quite challenging.”
Oakridge has adopted mountain bike tourism as part of its economy, with multiple companies offering guided tours and shuttle services for those who don’t want to take on long climbs to get to the downhills.
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