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Byline: The Register-Guard

Man held as suspect in September bank robbery 

A man accused of shoplifting this week has been charged with the September robbery of a south Eugene bank.

Roger Caldera Vigueria, 49, of Eugene was detained Monday evening in connection with shoplifting at the Market of Choice grocery store at 1960 Franklin Blvd. The responding police officer conducted a routine check and discovered that Vigueria was wanted on a federal warrant for bank robbery. He was being held Wednesday in the Lane County Jail.

Police said he is a suspect in the Sept. 29 robbery of the Washington Mutual bank at 2840 Willamette St. In that case, a man carrying a blue backpack robbed the bank at 5 p.m. of an unspecified amount of cash and fled in a small blue hatchback.

Eugene civil rights trial postponed until January

The trial of three local men charged with violating civil rights by throwing stones through windows at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene almost three years ago has been postponed until Jan. 24. It was to have begun Wednesday.

Jacob Albert Laskey, 25, of Springfield; his brother, Gabriel Doyle Laskey, 20, of Eugene; and Gerald Anthony Poundstone, 27, of Springfield, are charged with conspiring to oppress, threaten and intimidate the 80 people attending the religious service on Oct. 25, 2002.

Jacob Laskey also is charged with attempting to intimidate witnesses in the case.

Federal court documents allege that the men are self-avowed white supremacists who advocated violence against Jews and other minorities. Trial postponements are common in federal court. The court docket does not state a reason for the delay.