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Oregon fugitive found in Georgia 30 years later, using the identity of a dead child
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Steven Johnson escaped from Mill Creek Correctional Facility in Salem, Ore., during a prison work detail in 1994. He was arrested on Tuesday in Macon, Ga., where had had assumed the identity of a dead child.
Oregon Department of Corrections/Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
An Oregon fugitive that escaped from prison 30 years ago was arrested at his apartment on Tuesday afternoon in Macon, Ga. According to authorities, he had been living under the identity of a dead child.
Steven Craig Johnson, 70, fled from a prison work detail at the Mill Creek Correctional Facility in Salem, Ore., in 1994. He was serving a state prison sentence for three counts of sex abuse and one count of attempted sodomy.
Johnson was listed on the Oregon Department of Corrections “Most Wanted” list. He was described as a pedophile who “presents a high probability of victimizing pre-teen boys.”
At the time of his arrest, Johnson was using the alias William Cox. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Johnson stole the identity of a child who died in Texas in 1962 after obtaining the child’s birth certificate and Social Security number in 1995.
Johnson secured a Georgia driver’s license in 1998, and had been living in Macon since 2011. The Oregon Corrections Department requested the U.S. Marshals to take on the search for Johnson in 2015. After pursuing multiple leads, new technology used by the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service helped uncover new leads this year.
The facility Johnson escaped from was a minimum-security prison with no fence around it. Mill Creek prison closed in June 2021 under an order from former Gov. Kate Brown.
Johnson was booked into Bibb County Jail after arrest. He currently awaits extradition to Oregon.
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Oregon Ducks Football’s Daylen Austin’s Trial Set
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On February 19 of next year, Oregon Ducks Football redshirt defensive back Daylen Austin will face a 12-man trial.
Austin is currently accused of Failure to Perform Duties of Driver, a Class B Felony. According to the Oregon Judicial Department online database, both the prosecuting team and Austin’s lawyers could not come to an agreement for a settlement yesterday, which leads this case to trial.
Austin’s trail will occur at 9:30 a.m. PST that morning.
In that hit-and-run incident, 46-year-old Frank William Seaman of Eugene was killed, which is why Austin’s charge is a class B felony.
According to the Eugene Police Department, the fatal incident occurred at West 4th and Polk on Monday, April 15 around 9:10 p.m. PDT.
“This is a complex investigation and EPD is still gathering information to be submitted to the Lane County District Attorney’s Office for a final charging decision,” the Eugene Police Department Facebook post said regarding this initial incident.
“I know Daylen’s character and I think there are a lot of details that will continue to play out. Beyond that, I’m not going to speak on it any more than that,” said Oregon Football head coach Dan Lanning in April about the incident.
There is currently no word on how these legal troubles will affect Austin’s status on the team.
Austin played three games and 33 snaps with the Ducks last season while utilizing a redshirt. He was a four-star high school recruit from Long Beach, California.
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Fire reported on McKenzie View Drive north of Springfield
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Oregon wildfires: Tips to know, things to bring during an evacuation
Oregon has three evacuations levels. Here are some tips on what the levels mean and what to take with you if you have to evacuate.
Ben Lonergan, Register-Guard
A vehicle-turned-vegetation fire estimated to be 10 to 15 acres on McKenzie View Drive near Hill Road north of Springfield was reported Thursday night.
The wildfire reporting app Watch Duty reported that the fire, which started at a vehicle, “jumped the road.” The fire was traveling north uphill.
Oregon State Police had blocked off McKenzie View Drive eastbound in Mohawk Valley, directing drivers to turn around.
The Oregon Department of Forestry said the fire started around milepost 5 of McKenzie View Drive where a car was fully engulfed in flames. Officers began going door-to-door to evacuate nearby homes at approximately 7:30 p.m.
This story will be updated.
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Oregon Ducks Favored in Big Ten: ‘We Don’t Care’ says Michigan
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Oregon Ducks Football might be entering the Big Ten Conference among the favorites to win the league, but that doesn’t mean the old guard has to like it.
Michigan has reeled off three Big Ten titles in a row, finishing last season with a national title as well. Several popular betting sites have the Wolverines as third or fourth for best odds to win the league again, sometimes behind Penn State but never ahead of Oregon or Ohio State.
“Honestly, I don’t think that we care,” Michigan running back Donovan Edwards said. “I’d say we don’t care, in the sense that it’s us against everybody as it was last year.”
Edwards was joining former Wolverine tight end Jake Butt on his podcast, The L.A.B., where he was asked about the Buckeyes and Ducks being favored was a good motivator for the defending champs. The Wolverines lost their head coach, Jim Harbaugh, as well as nearly 20 players to the NFL.
“The way that I’ve been looking at it is, you can look at the offensive side of the ball — a lot of guys, including myself, haven’t been in a position to where your number is called on every single play,” Edwards said. “I want to be one of those guys where my number is called on every single play. I want the coaches to rely on me.
“It’s the same thing with all the guys on the offense. C-Love [tight end Colston Loveland] is the only returner on the offense, so it’s like — you want that pressure. You want that expectation, and guys are going to rise to that.”
Of course, talk in July won’t mean much when November rolls around. By then, Ohio State will have already travelled to Eugene (Oct. 12). Then in the final month of the regular season, the Ducks are in Ann Arbor on Nov. 2 with The Game slated for Nov. 30.
In the new Big Ten, Oregon could face either Ohio State or Michigan twice this fall. With the removal of divisions, the top two teams in the league standings will mean for the Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis on Dec. 7.
No matter who emerges from the round-robin between these three schools in the regular season, or who ultimately wins the Big Ten title, all three programs could see themselves in the College Football Playoff. An Oregon-Michigan rematch for the conference crown followed by an Oregon-Ohio State rematch for all the marbles? Count me in.
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