Medina declined to speak with OPB in June about his involvement with the complaint, other than to say that he filed a report with police in February and that police had asked him not to discuss an open investigation. “He said, ‘OK, I didn’t know that.’ A few hours later … he gave me a call and said, ‘I have to get something off my chest.
“I felt like I needed to tell him what happened,” Medina told a detective. In that police interview, Medina told a detective he’d explained what happened to Swenson, after running into the mayor in a coffee shop. 15, Medina identified the woman who’d given him the massage from a photo lineup. In a brief taped interview with a police detective on Feb.
The woman abruptly ended the massage when he declined sexual contact, he said. Medina described a masseuse straddling him at one point, and said he asked her to stop when she grabbed him inappropriately. He said he decided to try The Woodburn Spa, which had recently opened and offered walk-in appointments.
9, records show, shortly after he said what he expected to be a routine massage turned unexpectedly into an offer of sexual contact.Īccording to a police report, Medina explained that he routinely got massages through a chiropractor, but the service was booked up. Medina, the school board chairman and a policy analyst at the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission, went to police first to report inappropriate contact at the massage parlor. “If it did, I did not think that fulfilling my civic duty by reporting an incident to help an investigation into possible illegal activity would play a major factor in a political race, even if the circumstances might seem newsworthy to some.” “I entered the senate race having already reported this - and knowing there was some possibility it might become public,” Swenson wrote. In an email to OPB Tuesday, Swenson reiterated that he’d gone to police in February to report the spa incident, before he filed to run for the Legislature. Swenson told OPB in late June that the police matter was “way way down” his list of reasons for withdrawing, but declined to go into specifics about what he’d actually told police. “I don’t know anything factually, specifically, if that’s what you’re asking,” said Courtney, who is not seeking reelection. Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, whose seat Swenson was seeking, declined to say in June whether unflattering details had emerged about the mayor. But Muggli said Democrats had not asked Swenson to step aside. The head of the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, Oliver Muggli, acknowledged Wednesday that that matter had emerged as the party began preparing to support Swenson in the general election. The Woodburn mayor has stuck by that story, but his connection to the police investigation had been whispered about in political circles ahead of his announcement. Swenson surprised many political watchers in June when he abandoned his race for Senate District 11 abruptly, telling supporters he’d decided to seek another term as mayor instead. They also show that the FBI is not looking into allegations of sexual trafficking at the business.Įven without charges, the twin incidents could have political reverberations in an election year. Documents obtained via the state’s public records laws show police arrested and ticketed two people for practicing massage without a license, but suggest they do not plan on pursuing further charges. No charges have been filed in the matter. Swenson and Medina both said they were caught off guard and left the building. Both told police they’d gone to The Woodburn Spa for a massage, and were surprised when a staff member initiated erotic contact, according to their police interviews, which OPB obtained through a public records request. The men, who serve together on the Woodburn school board, offered similar tales. Woodburn Mayor Eric Swenson abandoned his bid for state Senate, despite winning the Democratic nomination in May.Īccording to videos of police interviews, Swenson and Medina went to police separately in February, and their visits to spa were separate and unrelated. To be named on the Dean’s List, a student must have a semester (full-time students) or cumulative (part-time students) grade point average of at least 3.5.But the two men have something else in common that could slow their momentum: Both told Woodburn police they had sexual contact with employees at a local spa, then voluntarily reported that conduct to authorities. Sussex County Community College is proud to announce the students who showed the academic achievement required to make the Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 semester.
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