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05-13-2007, 09:39 PM
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Roseburg, Oregon - Randy Wing, the owner of Roseburg Cycle Center and Roseburg Power Sports, is considering his options now that his attorney has negotiated a deal that will keep him in business in Roseburg until June 30.
Wing has yet to make his next move, which could include relocation to Sutherlin or Green.
Roseburg had given Wing a final notice that his business license would be revoked April 30 for violating a portion of the municipal code that prohibits business operation by those who have been convicted of a felony, or in Wing’s case, a misdemeanor conviction of theft in the past five years.
The deal worked out between Roseburg’s attorney, Bruce Coalwell, and Wing’s attorney, Charles F. Lee, will allow the two motorcycle businesses to remain in Roseburg until June 30 as Wing prepares another property.
“I’m happy as can be,” Wing said, before deferring all comments to Lee.
“I said to the city, ‘Why don’t we just stop fighting?’” recalled Lee. “I think there’s just going to be a vacant business on Diamond Lake.”
“They offered a resolution,” said Roseburg City Manager Eric Swanson. “We’re agreeable.”
The city first gave notice to Wing that his business license was being revoked in August 2005, but he was allowed to stay pending his appeal of his conviction. His appeals have since been exhausted.
Wing was convicted November 2004 in Washington County Court of three misdemeanor counts: theft, attempted theft and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Wing had purchased motorcycle parts from a Beaverton man in March 2004 for $1,200 off eBay.
Upon closer examination once he got the parts to Roseburg, he saw that several serial code numbers had been scratched off, with the exception of the motor’s. Wing contacted a Suzuki distributor, where he was told the motor belonged to Hillsboro Motorcycles.
He called Hillsboro Motorcycles to let them know he had their bike parts, but he wanted to recoup the $1,200 he had spent in the bogus transaction.
According to court records, when the Hillsboro Police came down to Roseburg to retrieve the parts, he pretended not to have them, so he was placed under arrest.
“He’s the one that determined that he had this bike with the serial numbers scratched off. He was being a Boy Scout,” Lee said. “(But) If you’re going to be a Boy Scout, you’ve got to be a Boy Scout all the way through.”
Wing appealed his conviction to the Oregon Court of Appeals after hiring Lee, who had not been his trial attorney. On Jan. 17 of this year, the higher court affirmed the lower court’s decision without opinion. The Oregon Supreme Court chose not to review his case.
Roseburg’s municipal code calls for business license revocation from any merchant who has been convicted of a felony or has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving fraud or theft in the past five years.
The Roseburg City Council unanimously affirmed and simplified the city’s business registration restrictions in June 2005 after an appeal by Lee in February of that year in which he made the case that the language of the ordinance was unclear and would “discourage business development in Roseburg.”
Lee said he could find a similar ordinance nowhere, from Albany to Central Point, that was like Roseburg’s. Sutherlin does not require business registration.
He also said Roseburg did not seem to enforce the ordinance before 2003, though it had been on the books for years.
Swanson said Wing was the only active business owner who lost his business because of the ordinance, but Swanson had denied registrations to potential businesses because of criminal charges.
He said such an ordinance was to protect the consumer.
“It’s one of those ordinances that was in place before I got here,” Swanson said. “Hopefully, it goes to show that we have a good overall climate for business.”
Source: Oregon News
Roseburg, Oregon - Randy Wing, the owner of Roseburg Cycle Center and Roseburg Power Sports, is considering his options now that his attorney has negotiated a deal that will keep him in business in Roseburg until June 30.
Wing has yet to make his next move, which could include relocation to Sutherlin or Green.
Roseburg had given Wing a final notice that his business license would be revoked April 30 for violating a portion of the municipal code that prohibits business operation by those who have been convicted of a felony, or in Wing’s case, a misdemeanor conviction of theft in the past five years.
The deal worked out between Roseburg’s attorney, Bruce Coalwell, and Wing’s attorney, Charles F. Lee, will allow the two motorcycle businesses to remain in Roseburg until June 30 as Wing prepares another property.
“I’m happy as can be,” Wing said, before deferring all comments to Lee.
“I said to the city, ‘Why don’t we just stop fighting?’” recalled Lee. “I think there’s just going to be a vacant business on Diamond Lake.”
“They offered a resolution,” said Roseburg City Manager Eric Swanson. “We’re agreeable.”
The city first gave notice to Wing that his business license was being revoked in August 2005, but he was allowed to stay pending his appeal of his conviction. His appeals have since been exhausted.
Wing was convicted November 2004 in Washington County Court of three misdemeanor counts: theft, attempted theft and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Wing had purchased motorcycle parts from a Beaverton man in March 2004 for $1,200 off eBay.
Upon closer examination once he got the parts to Roseburg, he saw that several serial code numbers had been scratched off, with the exception of the motor’s. Wing contacted a Suzuki distributor, where he was told the motor belonged to Hillsboro Motorcycles.
He called Hillsboro Motorcycles to let them know he had their bike parts, but he wanted to recoup the $1,200 he had spent in the bogus transaction.
According to court records, when the Hillsboro Police came down to Roseburg to retrieve the parts, he pretended not to have them, so he was placed under arrest.
“He’s the one that determined that he had this bike with the serial numbers scratched off. He was being a Boy Scout,” Lee said. “(But) If you’re going to be a Boy Scout, you’ve got to be a Boy Scout all the way through.”
Wing appealed his conviction to the Oregon Court of Appeals after hiring Lee, who had not been his trial attorney. On Jan. 17 of this year, the higher court affirmed the lower court’s decision without opinion. The Oregon Supreme Court chose not to review his case.
Roseburg’s municipal code calls for business license revocation from any merchant who has been convicted of a felony or has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving fraud or theft in the past five years.
The Roseburg City Council unanimously affirmed and simplified the city’s business registration restrictions in June 2005 after an appeal by Lee in February of that year in which he made the case that the language of the ordinance was unclear and would “discourage business development in Roseburg.”
Lee said he could find a similar ordinance nowhere, from Albany to Central Point, that was like Roseburg’s. Sutherlin does not require business registration.
He also said Roseburg did not seem to enforce the ordinance before 2003, though it had been on the books for years.
Swanson said Wing was the only active business owner who lost his business because of the ordinance, but Swanson had denied registrations to potential businesses because of criminal charges.
He said such an ordinance was to protect the consumer.
“It’s one of those ordinances that was in place before I got here,” Swanson said. “Hopefully, it goes to show that we have a good overall climate for business.”
Source: Oregon News