David Ross Nonnemaker, 46, pleaded guilty Nov. 6 to seven counts related to a timber and mining scam.
Nonemaker, of Longview, Wash., pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree aggravated theft and six counts of first-degree theft.
Three counts of first-degree theft in the case were removed, with no plea entered on five counts of first-degree aggravated theft and one count of racketeering.
He also pleaded guilty in an Albany Police Department case to one of two counts of first-degree theft.
He is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on Dec. 1 at Linn County Courthouse.
He remains lodged at Linn County Jail.
Nonnemaker, who was a Sweet Home area resident at the time, was arrested just over a year ago and accused of obtaining money from investors to develop mining claims and harvest timber at the Quartzville townsite, where he allegedly had no authority to harvest timber or mine.
Sheriff’s detectives identified four landowners in the area who were unaware that the mining operation and timber harvest was going on, and six investors who, Sheriff Tim Mueller said, gave Nonnemaker “large sums of money” in the belief that he was authorized to work in the area.
Investors and landowners victimized in the case include individuals in Germany, New York, Missouri, Oregon, California and Alaska, the sheriff said. Nonnemaker, who operated under the business name of “Western Sand and Gravel” and “Western Mining” Western Sand and Gravel was incorporated in Oregon in May 2004.
Victims listed in the case include Yvonne Hurst, John Howard, Weyerhaeuser, Mary’s River Lumber, Bald Knob Veneer Company, Zip-I Log Mills, Pacific Lumber Company, Sheik Rahman, Stacey Passeri, Rick Grenz and Gary Ashley, according to Circuit Court records.