Arthur Blood

Arthur Wayne Blood’s defense attorney got his wish to withdraw from the case Tuesday.

Umatilla Circuit Court Judge Garry Reynolds granted Thomas Gray’s motion to withdraw as Blood’s court-appointed attorney.

Blood faces a jury trial in September for multiple sex crimes against minors. Another public defender will be appointed, said Dean Gushwa, Umatilla County district attorney.

Blood, a Stanfield resident, faces 33 counts of sex crimes:

?Five counts of using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct (Class A felonies);

?10 counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse (Class B felonies);

?One count of sexual abuse of an animal (Class A misdemeanor);

?One count second-degree sexual abuse (Class C felony);

?11 counts third-degree sexual abuse (Class A misdemeanors);

?Four counts third-degree sodomy (Class C felonies);

?One count third-degree rape (Class C felony).

Computer court records list four female victims, all minors at the time of the abuse. In January one of the young women contacted the Oregon State Police, alleging Blood had abused her and another girl in 2001 when they were 15 and 16 years old, the OSP reported.

OSP obtained a search warrant for the suspect’s residence and found videos showing sex abuse. OSP Detective Seth Cooney arrested Blood, who remains in the Umatilla County Jail on a $470,000 bail.