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    32 year old twins arrested for terrorizing and assaulting the homeless.

      They didn't have myspaces, But i wanted to post these losers anyways.

      There are a lot of evil people out there, But these guys have to be near the top of the list... They have no rhyme or reason for their cruelty, they just do it because they can. I mean come on... Throwing homeless women down stairs? Beating a sleeping person with a bike? can someone please off these fuckers BEFORE they become murderers?!?!?

    On Portland's streets, police say, James and Michael Johnson are known as the "Twin Towers" because the brawny brothers are always together and the sight of them strikes terror among the homeless.

    Police said they have linked the 32-year-old twins to five unprovoked assaults against transients, all at Colonel Summers Park in Southeast Portland, where they've become known for their bullying and beatings.

    "They're always picking on people who are older and frailer. There's no fair fights here," Portland Detective Kevin Warren said. "For the most part, it's just a beat-down. They're just beating people up because they're thinking they'll get away with it."

    One man sleeping on a bench near the park's gazebo was pounded with his own bicycle, police said. Another homeless man who yelled at the Johnson twins to stop the bicycle clubbing was then stabbed in the leg, police said.

    One of the brothers last month threw a woman in her 50s down a flight of stairs at the park after she started to question why the pair kept hurting the homeless. A witness who tried to intervene was then assaulted.

    "They seem to be able to do their acts with impunity," Warren said. "I've never seen a couple of guys doing serial assaults like this with no apparent motivation ... which got us motivated to find and locate other victims."

    A Multnomah County grand jury has indicted the Johnsons on second-degree and third-degree assault charges. Since their arrests Nov. 16, they've each pleaded not guilty to the charges. Since the brothers were taken into custody, other victims have come forward, encouraged by the knowledge their attackers are locked up, police said.

    Detectives continue to reach out to the homeless at local shelters and church kitchens to determine whether others have been assaulted.

    Marc Jolin, executive director of JOIN, a nonprofit agency that works to help the homeless into housing, said he learned about some of the beatings from staffers.

    "People who are homeless are often victims of violence because they are vulnerable," Jolin said. "They're outside. They don't have a lot of resources, and they're not always comfortable going to the police and asking for help."

    In fact, many of those assaulted by the Johnsons never called police, but were found by officers some time after the attacks.

    Court records show a lengthy criminal history for the brothers, dating to when they were juveniles, and prior alcohol, anger management and domestic violence problems. They haven't had a steady address and have been described as transient at times. They have bounced among friends, listing addresses in Portland, St. Helens and Gresham over the past several years.

    According to police reports, shortly after midnight July19, a man sleeping on a bench near the gazebo in Colonel Summers Park awakened to one of the brothers pounding him with his bicycle. The homeless man, Jeffrey Paul Mason, 55, suffered a bloody nose and lost consciousness.

    When a fellow transient, Charles Vaughn, 42, tried to come to Mason's aid, one of the brothers turned on Vaughn and stabbed him in the leg, according to police reports.

    Vaughn told police he limped off and watched the man who stabbed him return and continue beating Mason. Vaughn tied something around his leg to stanch the bleeding. When the bleeding didn't stop after an hour, he went to a phone booth at Southeast 11th Avenue and Harrison Street to call an ambulance. Vaughn suffered a 2-inch gash on his right thigh and was treated at OHSU Hospital.

    Vaughn told officers he usually spends his nights at the park and has seen the twin brothers assault others. "I can spot those guys from across the park," he told detectives.

    By August, detectives distributed a wanted flier to all Portland police precincts, seeking the arrest of the Johnson brothers.

    Months passed. It wasn't until Nov. 16 that patrol officers found the twins at Colonel Summers Park, arrested them and took them into custody on warrants stemming from the July beating and stabbing.

    By then, investigators said, the twins had struck again.

    In fact, a day earlier, police learned, the Johnsons had attacked a homeless woman who stood up for herself and others at the park. Witnesses told police the twins threw her down a steep staircase on the north edge of the park at Southeast 18th Avenue, off Belmont Street. She was found near the park's gazebo the next day by police making routine checks. The officers found she had a warrant on a minor park violation. They drove her to jail but soon realized she had suffered a recent injury and called an ambulance to take her to a hospital.

    The woman sustained a serious head injury, including bleeding in her brain, and was in the intensive care unit at OHSU Hospital for about 10 days, Warren said. "She's fortunate to be alive," Warren said.

    Another man who witnessed the woman's assault tried to intervene, police said. That's when at least one of the brothers turned on him. The man suffered facial fractures, a broken left wrist and a cut to his forehead.

    "None of these victims would be spoiling for a fight, especially against people who are younger and stronger than they are," Warren said. "It's pretty offensive."

    A 35-year-old man who lives on the streets and identified himself only as Jack said he's seen the Johnson brothers in the city for several years. He described James Johnson as the more violent of the two. His brother, Michael, whom friends described as a few minutes older than James, always seemed to come to his aid. "One starts it, and the other one backs him up," Jack said. The twins are each described as 5 feet 7 and 215 pounds, according to jail records.

    When interviewed by officers, James Johnson denied any involvement in the July 19 beating. "I never beat up anybody," he told police, "and I never stabbed anyone."

    James Lee Johnson has faced serious charges in the past, including a 1995 weapons conviction, a 1998 restraining order in an alcohol-induced domestic violence assault, and a 2004 harassment conviction after police say he spit on an officer. In 2004, court records show, James Johnson was ordered to complete counseling for domestic violence and anger management.
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/twin_brothers_face_charges_in.html

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    Re: 32 year old twins arrested for terrorizing and assaulting the homeless.

    $20 Says They're Fucking Each Other
    Oh God, Stop The Voices *SCREAM*

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    Re: 32 year old twins arrested for terrorizing and assaulting the homeless.

    There's only two ways this will end, they will get killed by a group of homeless people or they will be jailed for life.

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    Re: 32 year old twins arrested for terrorizing and assaulting the homeless.

    Just wanted to update this, as they were in the paper today:


    A man who targeted homeless people in Colonel Summers Park in Southeast Portland -- beating or stabbing them, then leaving them unconscious -- was sentenced Wednesday to nearly eight years in prison.

    But the man's twin brother, whom witnesses also had placed at the scene of the attacks, had all charges against him dismissed.

    Police had arrested James Lee Johnson, 32, and his twin brother, Michael Allen Johnson, last November under the belief both picked on older, weaker individuals in the park -- in one case beating a sleeping man with his bicycle and in another case pushing a woman down a steep staircase.

    But prosecutors dropped the case against Michael Johnson for lack of evidence that he participated in the attacks, and James Johnson pleaded guilty or no contest to two counts of second-degree assault and one count of attempted second-degree assault for the two separate incidents.

    Portland police Detective Kevin Warren said witnesses had placed the brothers at the scene of the beatings last July and November.

    "Every one of them will tell you that James has always been the aggressor ..who led Michael around," Warren said.

    Shortly after midnight on July 19, James Johnson awoke a man who'd been sleeping on a bench by beating the man with his bicycle. The man lost consciousness and suffered a bloody nose.

    One of the twins was then believed to have stabbed another transient man in the leg, after the man had come to the first man's aid. But neither was indicted for the stabbing, because witnesses couldn't tell which brother was responsible.

    Detectives distributed fliers seeking the arrest of the brothers, but it wasn't until November when patrol officers found the pair at Colonel Summers Park, which consists of nearly five acres that sprawl south of Southwest 20th Avenue and Belmont Street.

    The day before, on Nov. 15, a homeless woman said she was approached by the twins and thrown down a staircase, suffering a head injury that included bleeding in her brain. A man who came to her defense suffered a facial fractures and a broken wrist.

    "He was knocked unconscious and thrown in some bushes," Warren said.

    James Johnson pleaded no contest to the July bicycle beating, and guilty to his involvement in the November assaults. He has a criminal history that includes assault and harassment, police say for spitting on an officer. In the past, he'd been ordered to take anger-management classes.

    Warren said he's received a few phone calls from members of the homeless community who are comforted by news James Johnson is headed to prison.

    "There's definitely some relief on the street," Warren said.
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/one_twin_goes_to_prison_other.html

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