PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury on Friday convicted a Portland, Oregon, man of murder in the shooting deaths of three of his neighbors. Brett Pruett, 61, was found guilty of first-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, burglary and assault, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release. Police found three
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Five people were arrested on Wednesday in a large-scale drug and gun bust throughout three states, the FBI in Portland announced Friday.
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A $27.6 million claim for recovery of damages was filed Friday in the Douglas County Circuit Court against the Winchester Water Control District and associated contractors for the loss of at least 550,000 juvenile Pacific lamprey during the district’s recent repairs to Winchester Dam.
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A Bend man recently charged with stealing five-dozen bottles of alcohol from area stores after he was caught on security camera putting three bottles of tequila in his pants is now also charged with stealing 125 items from Harbor Freight Tools, found in a raid on his home, police said Friday.
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A nearly year-long investigation of the death of a 76-year-old Bend man after an incident at a northwest Bend roundabout that police had called a likely hit-and-run crash led to Thursday’s arrest of his son-in-law on misdemeanor DUII and other charges. But authorities now say there’s no evidence a crash occurred.
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Lawyers for three police officers charged in the death of Manny Ellis on Thursday challenged a forensic video analyst’s interpretation of videos shot by witnesses that show the Black man’s fatal arrest in Tacoma, Washington. Later in the afternoon, Ellis’ sister, Monét Carter-Mixon, said weeks went
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A Central Oregon insurance agent was the target of scammers seeking $2,700, but it wasn’t just a phone or email scam. Instead, someone claiming to be with Pacific Power’s billing department walked into a tenant’s office, demanding immediate payment of a “past due bill” or the power would be turned off.
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A 43-year-old Bend man entered not-guilty pleas Thursday to second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal shooting last May of a Powell Butte man whose car he allegedly stole, later engaging in a police chase on Highway 97 north of Bend and shooting himself several times.
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Crook County said Wednesday it filed a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment against the Oregon Judicial Department on Monday, requesting a ruling on which party is responsible for maintenance and utility costs for the state court offices in the county’s new Justice Center.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The FBI on Tuesday announced the results of Operation Not Forgotten, which dedicated over 40 FBI Special Agents, Intelligence Analysts, Staff Operations Specialists, and Victim Specialists to 10 FBI Field Offices whose designated regions support women and children in indigenous communities, including the FBI Portland Field Office. During Operation Not Forgotten,
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The Ochoco National Forest closed the Walton Lake Campground Sunday to implement its Walton Lake Restoration Project, but environmentalists who have fought the tree removals in federal court for eight years said Friday it’s again appealing a negative ruling issued this summer.
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A parent’s disturbing report that a Ponderosa Elementary School first-grader had made violent threats spread quickly online Monday morning, but a Bend-La Pine Schools official said it was determined to not be “a credible threat.”
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A 25-year-old Terrebonne man pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 charges of kidnap, assault and sexual abuse involving two women who were at a downtown Bend bar in August of last year and said they blacked out and later awakened in a motel room with a male stranger.
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Eight months after he was fired – or in his view, retired – from a 27-year career with the Oregon Department of Corrections, the last 15 as assistant superintendent of Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras, a Prineville man was charged with being paid some $20,000 in his final year, for time he didn’t work.
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A La Pine man is back in the Deschutes County jail — this time ordered held without bail, and a possible suspect in the killing of a 33-year-old woman at a motel in The Dalles that he reportedly confessed to earlier this month, days after his release from the Bend jail.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A group of homeless people in Portland, Oregon, filed a class action lawsuit on Friday challenging new restrictions the city placed on daytime camping in an attempt to address safety issues stemming from a crisis of people living on the streets. The lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges the
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The Sunriver Police Department warned citizens Thursday about a rise in fraudulent / scam reports of vacation rentals in the area.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nearly a dozen children, including a 1-year-old, have overdosed on fentanyl since June in Portland, Oregon, its police bureau said Thursday, intensifying alarm in a city like so many others that has struggled to address the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history. Police said 10 minors have overdosed since June and
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday that he and Senate colleagues have introduced legislation that would prevent firearms trafficking from the United States to Mexico. “International firearms trafficking puts lives in danger and helps criminals sell narcotics. This must end now,” Wyden said. “It’s time for Congress to address the proliferation of firearms trafficking
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In November 2020, Oregon voters, by a 17% margin, approved Ballot Measure 110, which aimed to reduce penalties for possession of hard drugs such as meth, heroin and fentanyl, while at the same time directing more funding toward treatment of drug abuse.
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