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...vanished after that, for months. He stayed in Portland mostly, sleeping at a friend's place or in Washington Park, showering at the Multnomah Athletic Club. There was no plan; he just stayed a step ahead, carrying a bag of his stuff and scraping by on a few bucks here and there. Inexplicably, it took several days for police to issue a warrant for his arrest. So, when his parents and friends helped him at first, they weren't breaking the law. But after the warrant was issued, the cops hunted him with increasing fervor. One time the entire robbery...
...Back in Portland, the cops looked like idiots for letting the 18-year-old slip through their fingers, especially after the Oregonian in July reported the Mazatlan trip. They called in the big guns of U.S. law enforcement: America's Most Wanted. Detective Kelly Krohn, a tall, goateed man running the investigation, appeared on the TV show on July 25. Tom saw the segment and freaked. He ran again, to Las Vegas. But he knew it was over. He called his dad from a casino, told him he wanted to come in, and three FBI agents arrested...
...city lashed out. Commentators complained that Tom's friends hadn't turned him in during the Mazatlan trip--"Portland, we have a problem," a columnist lamented. Prosecutors were even harsher. Five of the six people involved have now pleaded guilty, and because of mandatory-sentencing laws, most have received at least four years. Even Celia Reynolds, who reluctantly drove Tom and Ethan to and from a supermarket robbery (and somewhat less reluctantly took a share of the proceeds afterward) will spend a full two years in prison for her role...
...last October, Brian Hanson knew he had to hurry up and expand the operations of the Portland, Maine, seafood store that had been in his family for three generations. Space wasn't exactly the problem; he and one of his partners, Walter Compare Jr., had just moved Hanson Bros. Fresh Seafood to larger quarters in the newly built Portland Public Market. But there were rumors floating around town of a new digital form of competition. "One guy sold $1 million worth of live Maine lobsters online around Christmas," says Hanson. "That's when we do most of our business...
...more than six times what he made in his first week online and a solid showing during a time of year when business is traditionally slow. Customers from as far away as Alaska are using the Web to purchase the same 78 products the store sells in Portland, including jumbo gulf shrimp, live Maine lobsters and even Alaskan king-crab legs. Just as importantly, from Hanson's point of view, taking orders over the Internet has freed up some of his 30 employees to help customers at the store's counter. "I couldn't afford to have people...