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Police officer finds man choking woman in street

By Mark Bowder, Columbian Metro Editor
Published: December 12, 2009, 12:00am

A Vancouver police corporal driving in the outer Burton area late Thursday said he happened upon a man choking a woman in the street.

The officer intervened and stopped the attack, police said.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, the corporal radioed that, while headed to an unrelated call, he’d seen a man choking a woman in the 14300 block of Northeast 30th Street.

The assailant ran off toward Burton Elementary School but was captured minutes later by a K-9 team, said Officer Jason Beach with the Vancouver Police Department.

Morgan J. Justin, 21, was taken to the Clark County Jail on suspicion of second-degree domestic violence assault and violating a court protection order to stay away from the woman, Beach said.

Justin was being held without bail early Friday and was to make a first appearance in court Friday, a jail employee said.

Paramedics checked the woman was checked for injuries. Her relationship with Justin wasn’t known, Beach said early Friday.

Note-passing robber hits Hazel Dell bank

A note-passing bank robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash Friday from a Hazel Dell bank.

Clark County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Horch said the robbery occurred at 4:22 p.m. at the First Independent Bank at 8015 N.E. Highway 99, when the man handed over a note demanding money. He did not mention or show a weapon, and left on foot.

A tracking dog was unable to locate the suspect, described as white, 5-foot-8 and 230 pounds. He was clean-shaven and wearing glasses, a stocking cap, and a zip-up sweatshirt jacket.

Horch said it isn’t known if this case is related to other robberies. The FBI is also investigating.

No citations issued in three-vehicle crash

No citations were issued in the three-vehicle pile-up about 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon on Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard. All three drivers have since been released from the hospital.

Preliminary indications at the scene suggested one driver may have run a red light at the intersection of Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard and 98th Avenue. But police received conflicting information about who had a green light and did not issue citations, Vancouver Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said.

Police determined that Barbara Crook was driving a 1997 Mercury Cougar south on 98th Avenue. Her vehicle was broadsided by a Toyota Tundra pickup driven west on Mill Plain by Diego Nava-Alamilla. Roger Artola was driving a 1998 BMW 323 west on Mill Plain. His car went underneath the pickup in the collision, Kapp said.

All three drivers were treated and released from the hospital. No one was seriously injured, Kapp said.

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