Bend police and Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies waited outside a trailer off China Hat Road south of Bend for two people who allegedly stole a yellow Jeep early Friday morning.
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State Rep. Daniel Bonham, R-The Dalles, has reintroduced Ezra’s Law for the 2022 Legislative Session, a measure sought in the wake of a little Madras boy’s life-long injuries to ensure longer sentences for such criminals. But with little time left in the “short session,” a bipartisan work group has been created to get the bill passed next year.
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Deschutes County Circuit Court has partnered with the Oregon Judicial Department’s Office of Engagement, Equity, and Inclusion to highlight Black History Month. They have created banners and posters with a retrospective of the Black judges, Black attorneys and individuals who have contributed to Oregon’s legal history.
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Police turned to the public for help Thursday in finding a 35-year-old Redmond man who is a suspect in two injury hit-and-run crashes just seven minutes apart last week in southwest Redmond.
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Bend police on Thursday released the name of a 59-year-old Bend man who was found dead beside a Westside drive-thru coffee stand early Wednesday morning, as record-low temperatures plunged to near zero.
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Obsidian Middle School in southwest Redmond went into lockdown “out of an abundance of caution” for about an hour late Wednesday morning after staff received a report of a student on campus talking about having a gun, but police found no evidence of a gun on campus and no arrests were made, officials said.
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A 43-year-old man confronted protesters against police violence in a Portland park, told them to leave and then drew a pistol and opened fire, killing a woman and wounding four other people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment focuses on building a digital defense against reference scams.
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office detectives, aided by Oregon State Police Bomb Squad detectives, said Monday they found the location of the 2-3 very loud explosions that rocked residents over a wide area of the High Desert, near Fryrear Butte, and believe they may have been caused by Tannerite or other exploding-type targets.
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A woman was fatally shot and three others in her car — a man and two children — were injured in a shooting late Sunday in southeast Portland.
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A security guard working at a Prineville-area saloon was arrested early Sunday morning, accused of committing a sex crime in the parking lot, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
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A northeast Bend Chinese restaurant was robbed by a man with a covered face Saturday night, prompting a police search of the area and steady sirens for close to an hour, according to police, the owner’s son and area residents.
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Pooja Agrawal, CNN At least six people have been stabbed or slashed on the New York City subway since the unveiling of a new transit safety plan on Friday, the New York City Police Department said. Officials have vowed to combat crime and address homelessness in the city’s transit system as
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in northeast Portland Saturday night, sparked by a confrontation between an armed homeowner and armed protesters — about 90 minutes after another person died in a southwest Portland officer-involved shooting, police said.
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Michael Boyle, who owned the Sisters “Hop in the Spa” and faces numerous abuse charges, has been fined $13,000 by a state licensing board for providing massages without a license.
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At the conclusion of a trial held at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds, a jury on Friday convicted a 50-year-old La Pine man on 17 felony counts, including first-degree rape and sexual abuse, for the molestation of three young children, prosecutors said.
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Bend police arrested a 29-year-old fugitive at St. Charles Bend this week, accused in at least 11 recent cases of theft, burglary, mail theft and break-ins at storage facilities in the area since early January.
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Customers of Lucky Horseshoe Storage on the north end of Bend say they plan to file a class-action lawsuit against the former property owner, having just learned in recent weeks ODOT acquired the facility through court action and that they must move their belongings to make way for a road project.
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A homeless man who allegedly threatened to kill a woman with a loaded shotgun was arrested Wednesday morning on Hunnell Road and also was found to be responsible for other crimes in the area, police said.
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Black Butte Ranch police advised the public Wednesday that they are seeing an increase in scams involving people who are selling items on online marketplaces, such as Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.
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