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Pawn shop owner Jimmy Pearson found dead in his riverfront home; death ruled homicide, no arrests made
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Detectives are investigating the death of Jimmy A. Pearson, 63, who was found dead in his riverfront home last week.
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Clackamas County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the suspicious death last week of a Milwaukie businessman who owned a chain of pawn shops, held a marijuana producer license and had been befriended by a federal prosecutor who sent him to prison in the 1990s on a drug-related crime.
Jimmy A. Pearson, 63, was found dead in his home last Wednesday morning, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
Marijuana dispensaries in the Portland metro area have been targeted in a surge of robberies in the last year, which some industry experts say underscores the need for banking access in the burgeoning cannabis industry.
Longtime public official Lee Moore Sr., former chairman of Home Forward board, dies
Updated Mar 06, 2021;
Posted Mar 06, 2021
Lee Moore, then chair of the Housing Authority of Portland (now Home Forward) talks about the intersection of race and gentrification as it pertains to the city s plans to make North Williams Avenue safer. The proposed project is drawing concerns from some residents and members of the Black community who say that the thoroughfare had been ignored for years, but is now a city priority because of bike advocates. Proponents of the plan say while bicyclists are spurring efforts, that doesn t mean safety is solely a white cultural value. Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian LC- The Oregonian
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