Daughter denies accusations, tells KGW charges are ‘insane’ PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — The mother and daughter operators of a Tigard adult foster care home made their first appearance in federal court on Friday after they allegedly coerced three Haitian immigrants, including a minor, to work grueling hours amounting to indentured servitude, KGW reported. Marie Gertrude
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempted murder and other charges in last month’s baseball-bat attack on his roommate, having failed to convince a grand jury in a rare in-person appearance that he should not be indicted because he acted in self-defense. Deschutes County Circuit Judge Alycia Sykora set
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A Prineville woman has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for using stolen identities – some from jail rosters – to submit fraudulent health care claims, resulting in over $1.5 million in misappropriated funds from the Oregon Health Authority’s Medicaid program, and with filing false tax returns that failed to report earnings she received.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — The Justice Department has announced more than $86 million in grants administered by the Tribal Affairs Division within the Office on Violence Against Women to American Indian and Alaska Native communities to support survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. The grants provided through the Violence Against
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Redmond Police Department alerted the public on Tuesday about a familiar scam in which a person is representing themselves as a Redmond police officer. The caller specifically claims to be Sergeant Gautney, and is contacting individuals regarding “an urgent legal matter,” Lieutenant Eric Beckwith said. He said the contact has
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Judicial Department has announced that many online services for Oregon’s circuit courts and the Oregon Tax Court will be offline from 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 to 8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, for an essential case management software upgrade. In addition, Oregon’s Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Tax Court,
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — New civil rights lawsuits filed this week bring the total number of claims against current and former staffers of the Oregon Youth Authority to six, KGW reported Friday. The suits were filed on behalf of people who were incarcerated in an OYA facility between 2018 and 2022. Four of the named
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man accused of shooting at another man on a busy northeast Bend street last month has been indicted on federal charges of felon in possession of a firearm, a prosecutor said Friday as a Deschutes County judge agreed to dismiss three similar local charges. Aaron Polit, 41, still faces three
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Central Oregon couple say they feel defeated after learning their daughter’s year-long sex abuse case could be dropped, without their knowledge. “We were told that everything that’s going on in the last year has been for no reason, dismissed,” the victim’s stepmother said. “Absolutely devastated, heartbroken that our kid isn’t going
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Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Wasco County fugitive on a warrant for failing to appear in court on an arson charge, accused of starting the Larch Creek Fire that burned more than 18,000 acres in July. He later was released after posting bail.
Continue Reading MEDFORD, Ore. (KTVZ) —Three Oregon men were sentenced to five years to more than seven years in federal prison Thursday for distributing fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a Medford teenager, prosecutors said. Hunter Fenstermaker, 23, a Medford resident, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and six years’ supervised release; Napoleon Gomez,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon Community College recently received Pell Grant certification from the U.S. Department of Education for its newly designed associate degree prison education program at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras — one of several such programs in the entire country, and the first in Oregon to earn that distinction. The
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It’s been nearly three weeks since the new Measure 110 reforms and deflection program began in Deschutes County and across the state — and at this point, local treatment services are calling it a miracle.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man was arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop on Highway 97 near Terrebonne late Tuesday night, accused of transporting fentanyl from the Portland area to distribute in Central Oregon. A search of the car turned up fentanyl powder and related items under the passenger seat. The Central
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(Update: OSP confirms driver stopped for speeding) EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State Police trooper’s traffic stop of a speeding driver on Interstate 5 in Lane County last week turned up nearly 4 ½ pounds (2 kilograms) of powdered fentanyl, but the driver ran across the freeway into a wooded area and eluded capture.
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Portland man was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison Tuesday for breaking into a pawn shop and stealing 47 guns from the federal firearm licensee, federal prosecutors said. Kory Dean Boyd, 39, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. According to court
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Redmond police sought the public’s help Monday and have stepped up surveillance while they look for a male suspect in a string of fires intentionally set in the city’s popular Dry Canyon over the past 10 days, all caught and doused by fire crews at small sizes, but sparking neighbors’ worry.
Continue ReadingBy Meena Duerson and Meridith Edwards, CNN Wilsonville, Oregon (CNN) — The three women sit huddled together, hands and arms intertwined, heads on each other’s shoulders. For too long, each felt utterly alone and it’s as if their physical closeness gives them a boost of strength. Each tells CNN they were sexually abused by their
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The suspect in a vehicle-pedestrian crash in rural Linn County fired a gun after Oregon State Police found him early Saturday morning, sparking a standoff that ended when he pointed the gun at an approaching SWAT team and was shot and killed, Oregon State Police said.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KTVZ) – A California Highway Patrol officer’s traffic stop on Interstate 5 in Merced County led to the discovery of 37 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $1.3 million and led to the arrest of two Oregon men on several felony charges, CHP said Friday. The CHP officer pulled over
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