The Bellingham Herald from Bellingham, Washington • 7

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V'Y rirww mfurav mzmerei rrs'ritmm-wrmi iiiiri ae ar 71 i The Bellingham Herald Wednesday March 30 1988 A7 Cocaine takes blame for rise in Oregon drug deaths havior is such that someone is going to call Lewman said Three of the 11 cocaine-related Other drug deatha in Oregon tide include three attributed to methamphetamine overdoee collect your reward for passing 55 With a free checking account at InterWest Savings Bank BlStSit72St SavingsEIziiIi Banking on a Human Scale Luiyhilil Rick Hargraves says the danger to his children and wife Jill has persuaded the family to move The Hargraves had organized their Yakima neighborhood against an influx of street drugs InterWest Savings Bank announces another free service that the big banks have: free checking for anyone lucky enough to be over 55 That means no-cost checking no service fees no charges for InterWest checks no minimum balance required No kidding Plus you get 5 Yakima drug dealers force family out of neighborhood PORTLAND Ora (AP) Deatha attributed to cocaine over-dooea are up aharply in Oregon ao far this year with cocaine responsible for half of the deatha the atate medical examiner mm Tuesday had more cocaine deaths in the first three months of this year already than we did in all of Dr Larry Lewman said There have been 11 cocaine-caused deaths in 1988 including one Tuesday Cocaine-caused deaths in Oregon last year totaled only eight Lewman said The drug has replaced tar heroin as the worst in the state hut the rate of tar heroin deatha alao is up the medical examiner said Six deaths have been attributed to tar heroin overdoses equaling the number of tar heroin deatha in 1987 Lewman said the way drug abusers use cocaine alao is changing with use of a form that comes in small nuggets and can be smoked showing up more frequently as a cause of death "What seeing is not only an increase in numbers but a change in the Lewman said our cocaine deatha in the past were almost always by the intravenous route where they take a needle and shoot (the cocaine) Into the vein half of those during the first part of this year are bum inhaling the free base or crack form Officials also are seeing more cases of cocaine psychosis a mental disorder brought on by heavy cocaine uae Lewman said typical cocaine psychosis is an individual who is using heavy over a aeries of days ussually by the freebase or crack ha aid get progressively more agitated (their) heart rate goes up and respiratory rate goes up behavior la Increasingly paranoid bizarre They go around breaking windows they take off their clothes their be CHECKOUT THE SPORTS SECTION The Bellingham Herald dsSfcsry iw Hwmm 4-v Hargraves an unemployed mechanic was outspoken He talked with reporters about the committee's effort to record license plates of suspicious vehicles and the anger of homeowners at seeing their property values decreasing On Monday while Hargraves and his wife Jill were standing outside their bouse talking with a television reporter a vehicle pulled up to the curb and the passenger rolled down the window Hargraves said The driver leaned over pointed a gun at them made three sounds like shots being fired and then drove away he said Police arrested two men a short time later but Hargraves said things have gone too far The family purchaaed a houae outside of town about two months ago intending to leave the neighborhood as soon as they sold their present home Jill Hargraves said they wanted to leave before then for fear drug dealers would take over the empty house After incident however they decided to move out rifU away and found a friend who waa willing to live there ahe minds her own business not going to bother Jill Hargraves said were tine until we started fighting Police Chief Pleas Green said Hargraves made the mistake of becoming a focal point in the anti-drug efforts especially through media interviews and photographs The average citizen is not equipped to fight drug dealers Dreisbach said this area most of the drug traffickers are armed with loaded automatic and semi-automatic he said number of drug-related homicides and assaults shows they do use them YAKIMA (AP) A mu who helped organise a revolt against drug dealing In his neighborhood says he and his family are being chased out of town by drug traffickers because he dared to speak out Rick Hargraves said Tuesday he decided to speed up Ms previous plans to move after he was threatened with a pistol outside hie home this week really scare IU6 worried about my wife and said Hargraves unemployed mechanic who has owned a house on once-qulet South Naches Avenue for six years The plight illustrates the rising frustrations of residents on the East Side who are faced with discarded hypodermic syringes on lawns open drug dealing on sidewalks and violence in the alleys Central Washington la a drug hotbed with cocaine and heroin carried north from Mexico by people posing migrant farmworkers officials say The Influence of drugs has sent the Yakima County crime rate particularly murder and burglary skyrocketing are a very serious problem over here It far exceeds what I thought I would get into when I got a year ago said Robert Dreisbach head of the UA Drug Enforcement Administration office in Yakima The local DEA task force in place Just over a year has made arrests many of them upper echelon dealers and suppliers he said used to be a beautiful neighborhood" said Teresa Ocampo Hargraves neighbor and like him a member of the kweek-old South Naches Cleanup Committee kids go outside to play and find syringes and put them in their While many committee members have preferred anonymity deatha so for this year have been attributed to cocaine psychosis he said interest on the money in your account That means instead of subtracting from your balance you could be adding to it So if over 55 stop And save up to $86 a year on monthly service fees and check printing charges Itfe time for you to pass up the big banks And FREE AT MENU Pregnant teen-age murder suspect released to testify against boyfriend Munday haa been charged with kidnapping and murder but those charges would be dropped when she testifies against Strickland said assistant county prosecutor Charles Toby A tentative trial date for Strickland is set for August before Circuit Judge James Thorbum DeBoer was a courier for Leemon Oil Co and waa robbed when he picked up receipts at a Union 78 gas station where Munday worked Police have said that after the robbery and kidnapping DeBoer waa taken to a remote field and shot twice in Ms head PONTIAC Mich (AP) A murder suspect praised a deal that allows his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend to go bee pending her testimony kgalnat him Jerry Strickland is charged with robbing kidnapping and killing Elmer DeBoer last May He and Melissa Munday were arrested last month in Washington state after the nationally broadcast television program detailed the case just carrying out what I told her to Strickland said in a telephone 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