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Roseburg motel fined $31k for overcharging wildfire evacuees
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
By Scott Carroll, The News-Review
The Days Inn by Wyndham in Roseburg has been fined $31,000 for overcharging dozens of area residents who sought rooms after fleeing the Archie Creek Fire.
SUBH Investment LLC, which does business as Days Inn by Wyndham in Roseburg, entered into an agreement, known as an assurance of voluntary compliance, with the Oregon Department of Justice on Monday. The hotel is located at 790 NW Garden Valley Blvd.
Devon Kumar, who lives in a suburb of Portland, is listed with the state as the owner of the Days Inn. He declined to comment Wednesday. Kumar was represented in the agreement by Portland attorney James Dowell.
JOHN DAY â A sheriffâs deputy who was fired before entering a plea on criminal charges is suing Grant County and several employees.
Former Grant County Sheriffâs Office deputy Tyler Smith claims the county and its employees violated his constitutional rights under the First and 14th amendments, retaliated against him as a whistleblower and wrongfully discharged him from employment in a complaint filed Dec. 21, 2020, in U.S. District Court in Pendleton.
In addition to the county, the suit names former Sheriff Glenn Palmer, District Attorney Jim Carpenter, Undersheriff Zach Mobley and former deputy Abigail Mobley as defendants and seeks damages for lost wages and distress as well as punitive damages and attorney fees.
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