{"id":1515,"date":"2010-08-19T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:01:59","slug":"news-brief-morton-man-found-guilty-of-stealing-old-growth-cedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Morton man found guilty of stealing old growth cedar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; A Morton man was convicted yesterday of stealing old growth cedar from the National Forest and selling it to a local mill.<\/p>\n<p>James R. Van Renselaar, 45, was caught by a U.S. Forest Service officer with a chain saw and bolts of cedar northwest of Morton in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in March 2008, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney Mike Underwood said his client&#8217;s partner who took the wood to the shake mill had a permit which turned out not to be valid.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in Lewis County Superior Court deliberated less than\u00a0 two hours before finding Van Renselaar guilty of first-degree trafficking in stolen property and second-degree theft<\/p>\n<p>His sentencing date will be be decided next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; A Morton man was convicted yesterday of stealing old growth cedar from the National Forest and selling it to a local mill. James R. Van Renselaar, 45, was caught by a U.S. Forest Service officer with a chain saw and bolts of cedar northwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}