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File photo of an iPhone courtesy of William Hook.


WILSONVILLE, Ore. - She used an "app" to foil a theft. "I can't believe someone stole my phone," said Stephanie Davies.

Davies was able to turn the tables on the thief because of an option on the phone he stole.

It all started while she was sitting at her desk at Acumen Financial Services, at 8995 S.W. Miley Road in Wilsonville. She said a man "came up to the counter and handed me a Motel 6 business card, and asked me if i could give him directions to this address."

Davies turned around to draw the man a map, and when she turned back the man - and Davies' iPhone - was gone.

"A few minutes later, I [realized I] didn't have my phone," she said. "I felt pretty stupid."

Then she had an idea. Using AT&T's "family map" application, she could see an aerial photo of the phone's location.

As police zeroed in on the area, they spotted the location of the phone: The Motel 6 at 17950 S.W. McEwan Road in Lake Oswego.

WEST LINN, Ore. -- A southeast Portland man was arrested Tuesday afternoon on multiple charges following an alcohol-related injury crash on Interstate 205 in the West Linn area.

According to Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Yvette Shepard, a 1998 Honda Civic driven by southeast Portland resident James William Tomlinson IV, 30, was reportedly traveling southbound on Interstate 205 at 4 p.m. at a high rate of speed north of Oregon City. Witnesses described the Honda being driven at times on the inside shoulder and median, weaving in and out of traffic and nearly striking another vehicle.

Near milepost 6, the Honda struck the left rear side of a passenger car driven by Mark Kay, 60, from Wilsonville. Kay lost control of his car as it went airborne and came to rest on its side off the freeway.

Despite being damaged in the crash, the Honda continued southbound for about one-half of a mile before it stopped because of a mechanical problem related to the crash. A Clackamas County deputy detained the driver until Shephard arrived at the scene.

Join the Wilsonville Public Library at 6:30 p.m. March 3 for a conversation about "Your Land, My Land: Using and Preserving Oregon's Natural Resources" with Portland State University Professor Veronica Dujon.

Dujon, whose research focuses on gillnet fishermen on the Lower Columbia and the conflict over water rights in the Klamath Basin, invites you to consider the various meanings Oregonians have come to attach to different places in the state and to explore how these attachments shape our desire to both use and preserve natural resources.

For more information, call the library at 503-682-2744 or visit the calendar.

Wilsonville residents can get rid of those unwanted and expired medications on March 13 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the City's Public Works building.

Items to bring to the collection site are expired or unwanted prescription medications, unneeded over the counter medicines, drugs that didn't work or are no longer needed, medicine from deceased family members, and unknown tablets and capsules.

Leave all medicines in their original containers if possible. For more information contact Randy Watson, City of Wilsonville, 503-570-1551 or watson@ci.wilsonville.or.us.