In brief: Man faces forgery, possession charges

A man arrested after he allegedly attempted to enter a federal building with marijuana also is being investigated for forgery.

Danny Trice, 54, attempted to enter the Spokane Social Security office, 714 N. Iron Bridge Way, Wednesday morning, according to a Spokane police news release. During a routine search of his backpack, a security officer found a substance he believed to be marijuana, as well as three checkbooks belonging to dead people, two forged driver’s licenses with Trice’s picture on them and another ID card with someone else’s name on it.

Trice was cited for marijuana possession and booked into jail on an unrelated warrant for trespass and investigation of forgery. Police are continuing to investigate how Trice acquired the ID cards.

American woman held in East Timor

PORTLAND – A U.S. woman has been detained for two months in East Timor after apparently getting in the wrong vehicle at the wrong time, and two senators say partisan gridlock has complicated efforts to free her.

Stacey Addison, 41, a veterinarian from Portland, was arrested shortly after crossing the border into the Southeast Asia nation. She was sharing a taxi with a stranger who asked the driver to stop the car so he could pick up a package. Police stopped the vehicle, determined the package contained methamphetamine and took everybody to the station.

Addison was released from jail after a few days, but was ordered to remain in East Timor during the investigation. Her passport was confiscated and she stayed in a hostel.

A prosecutor last week persuaded a court to rescind Addison’s conditional release. She is being held in a women’s prison and has not been charged with a crime.

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon have been working to get Addison out of the country. They say the effort has been hindered by the lack of a U.S. ambassador to East Timor.

COOS BAY, Ore. – Federal regulators have concluded that a terminal on the Oregon coast to export natural gas to Asia and its supply pipeline would cause some limited environmental damage, but nothing that cannot be dealt with by mitigation measures offered by the builders and regulators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission came to that conclusion in a draft environmental impact statement released Friday on the Jordan Cove Energy Project and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, The World newspaper reported. The final report is due in February.

The project would load superchilled natural gas from the Rockies onto ships at Coos Bay for transport overseas.