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Love, Sex and Violence KO Oregon Deputies, Jailers and Prison Guards
Loaded on March 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2008, page 40
On August 16, 2007, in separate incidents, two Clackamas County, Oregon sheriff?s deputies were arrested on job-related criminal offenses.Deputy Bryan Lavigne, 36, used excessive force on a juvenile by strangling him during an arrest on July 15, 2007. Other officers witnessed the incident and reported it to supervisors. The …
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