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Byline: The Register-Guard

Man arrested after meth makings are found in RV

A California fugitive was arrested this week by agents investigating a meth lab in a motor home parked behind Wal-Mart in west Eugene.

The state police methamphetamine task force and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant at the 20-foot-long, 1963 Ford motor home at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Inside, they found chemicals used for making meth but no active cooking lab.

Claude Raymond Neier, 60, was arrested and lodged in the Lane County Jail. He was wanted in California for violating parole on a conviction for drug manufacturing. He faces local charges of making, distributing and possessing meth. He was being held without bail.

West Eugene shooting leaves one man injured

Police saturated a west Eugene neighborhood Friday night after a shooting near a convenience store injured one man.

A 27-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder about 8:15 p.m. near the intersection of Elmira Road and Wood Avenue. He fled in his car and flagged down an officer several blocks away at a Roosevelt Boulevard tire store.

Medics took the man to Sacred Heart Medical Center. He was expected to survive.

The incident began when a car being driven by the shooting victim came upon a group of men blocking the road. After a verbal confrontation, one of the men in the road shot the car's driver, Eugene police Lt. Scott Fellman said.

Officers arrived and learned that a 6-foot-2-inch-tall black man between 18 and 25 years old with a medium build, wearing a "do-rag" on his head, blue jeans and a dark jacket pulled a handgun from the front of his waistband and fired at the victim.

A passenger in the car returned fire with a .45-caliber handgun and missed. Everyone involved scattered.

Meanwhile, residents, who heard the shots, called police and reported people running down the street screaming. Witnesses said two to four shots were fired.

Officers were interviewing the victim and the passenger. The suspect had not been located late Friday.

Father arraigned

on more charges

A Springfield man arrested last week for allegedly soliciting the murder of the police officer who fatally shot his son was arraigned Friday on additional charges.

Charles Lesley Porter, 50, pleaded not guilty to one count of soliciting aggravated murder, four counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, eight counts of possession or delivery of illegal drugs, and nine counts of using a minor in commission of a drug crime.

Porter is being held in lieu of a $1.5 million security deposit.

No trial date is set.

Springfield officer Ethan Spencer was cleared of any wrongdoing in the June 26 shooting of Jason Michael Porter.

REGION

Shooting outside market sends man to hospital

DEADWOOD - Deputies were investigating a shooting Friday outside the Deadwood Country Market that sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh.

Witnesses told Lane County deputies that a copper-colored Chevy Nova pulled up to another car parked near the store at 14699 Highway 36 about 5 p.m. and opened fire. A man inside the second car fired back. He was shot in the leg. The injury was not life-threatening.