The former commercial director of Eugene Weekly was arrested Tuesday for the alleged diversion of the newspaper.
Elisha Young, 37, was arrested in Ohio following an indictment by a great jury of the county of Lane. She faces three aggravated flight chiefs in the first degree and two first degree flight chiefs.
In an email in KLCC, the spokesman for the Eugene police department, Melinda McLaughlin, said that Young would be extradited to Oregon to face his accusations.
Young worked at the weekly from 2018 to the end of 2023, according to the publication website. She is now accused of stealing money in the newspaper and not paying some of her business partners.
After the weekly announced that he discovered the hijacking program in December 2023, he interrupted impression For several questions, quoting debt and financial disorders.
A weekly Eugene box in publication offices on December 28, 2023. The former commercial director of Eugene Weekly was arrested on Tuesday for the alleged diversion of the newspaper.
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However, the paper could have start printing in February 2024, after a effusion of public support and a Successful fund collection campaign.
The weekly was the first to report During arrest on Wednesday. Its editor -in -chief, Camilla Mortensen, told KLCC that the news brought a mixture of regret and relief.
“There are people who really wanted to know what happened and expressing doubt,” said Mortensen. “And therefore to finally be able to say:” This is what happened and here are the charges “is the main part of the relief.”
Mortensen previously shared his memory of diversion Weekly article From last April, although Young was not directly appointed in this room.
Today, Mortensen said that the weekly always reimbursed debts to his printer accumulated during the diversion. She said that she hoped for a court to grant the newspaper a certain financial restitution.
Nathan Wilk is a KLCC journalist. This story comes from the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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