(FD-350), The Columbian re Harold Dwayne Ingram (file copy)
This copy: Part 63 p. 17Also filed at Part 44 p. 16 (primary) · Part 63 p. 99 · Part 65 p. 147 · Part 67 p. 47 · Part 70 p. 173
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FD-350 clipping: 'Worst may be over' — Harold Dwayne Ingram, The Columbian, Vancouver WA
Document date 21 March 1980
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 63 p. 17 (DB Cooper-26314), News clipping, dated 21 Mar 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A017-017
(Indicate page, name of paper, city and state.) p.A1 Columbian Vancouver, Wa. Date: 3/21/80 Edition: Final Title: Worjak [guess: notation/case reference] Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle
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Worst may be over
By CYNTHIA TANK Columbian Staff Writer
"I hate to think the thoughts people will be thinking about me all over the United States," said Harold Dwayne Ingram as he sat in his boss's office Thursday afternoon.
The 28-year-old Vancouver resident said he now regrets his 8-year-old son Brian's finding of D.B. Cooper's hijack ransom money last month.
"I regret it for myself, but not for Brian," who, he said, has enjoyed all the attention.
Brian and his family made national headlines after a family outing on a Columbia River beach near Vancouver Feb. 10 turned into a major media and FBI event. Brian was preparing a campfire when he scooped out about $5,000 of the $200,000 Cooper had demanded and received before jumping out of an airliner in 1971.
Since last month Ingram has:
O Lost 1½ days pay — about $100 — in order to return the money and attend an FBI press conference.
O Watched as a fire caused about $1,000 damage to the upper floor of his home at 1500 Markle St. Saturday.
O Been arrested Monday on an Oklahoma warrant alleging he left that state unlawfully
with mortgaged property — a car.
Officials in Oklahoma said they recognized Ingram from newspaper photographs that appeared after the famous find. Ingram had been wanted for about six months before the story first appeared in the paper, they said.
The warrant was issued because Ingram allegedly is behind in payments for his car.
"I have every receipt," Ingram said Thursday. "I don't have a payment due on that car until the 20th of next month."
"I feel confused, really confused," Ingram said Thursday. "And I feel pretty unlucky. I'm not angry; I'm kind of hurt. I really care what people think about me."
Ingram said he bought his car from a new car salesman, paid $200 or $300 down, and arranged for financing. He said he notified the finance company when he and his family moved here from Oklahoma last winter.
His arrest Monday was an unhappy surprise, he said.
"I had no idea I had a warrant on me," he said. "That's obvious, or I wouldn't be flashing my face all over the world."
He might have been late with a payment or two, he said, "but rich people do that, too, don't they?"
But things were looking up for Ingram
today. His boss and attorney, Joe Tanner, said this morning he has been told by the Pittsburg County, Okla., district attorney that that office now has verification of Ingram's car payments. Ingram, in fact, is paid ahead to July on the car, Tanner said.
Tanner said a few details need to be worked out, but when they are the district attorney has told him the charges will be dropped. That will not occur until Monday, Tanner said he was told. The district attorney was unavailable for comment this morning.
As for Ingram's other bad fortune, just before midnight Saturday, two bedrooms on the upper floor burned, and his landlord — who bailed him out of jail Tuesday — started remodeling the next day.
Tanner, vice president of U-Cart Concrete Systems Inc. of Vancouver, where Ingram is employed, said the company is behind him. Tanner, a lawyer, said he will represent Ingram without charge.
Until the charges against him are dropped, Ingram faces an April 17 identification hearing in Clark County District Court.
"These people are great here," Ingram said of his fellow employees. "They want to back me 100 percent."
"He's been treated unfairly," Tanner said.
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