A Bend homicide victim’s missing SUV has been found unoccupied by a member of the public in Southern Oregon, police said Thursday, as detectives headed to the scene to collect it and to investigate the area where it was found.
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TUMALO, Ore. (KTVZ) – Twice in two days this week, men fleeing Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies jumped in the Deschutes and Little Deschutes rivers and hid along the riverbanks. But both men were found and arrested with the help of sheriff’s K-9 teams – one with the dog’s bite.
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Deschutes County commissioners will hear from residents Wednesday afternoon on a proposed camping ban first brought forth on June 7th by Sheriff Shane Nelson.
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A man living in a transient camp at Juniper Ridge known as “Dirt World” has died of injuries from being attacked by up to three dogs early Wednesday morning, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The announcement that authorities are holding a person of interest in the case of four women found dead this year in northwest Oregon has their mothers hoping they may finally get answers about what happened to their daughters. Melissa Smith, the mother of
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man considered a person of interest in the deaths of four women whose bodies were found in northwestern Oregon is being held in a state prison after Gov. Tina Kotek reinstated a prison sentence that was commuted by her predecessor. Jesse Lee
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After a day of plea negotiations, a Bend man accused of fatally stabbing a man last June and setting his townhome on fire pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree manslaughter and arson charges and was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The city of Bend won a judge’s legal backing Monday for its plans to clear the Hunnell Road homeless encampment, but the city has been notified of another planned lawsuit in coming months that will claim the city’s “camping code” is “not objectively reasonable,” is unconstitutional and violates state law.
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The Bend City Attorney’s Office issued a statement Monday after Deschutes County Circuit Judge Wells Ashby declined to issue an injunction sought by a group of Hunnell and Clausen road residents to block this week’s removal of a long-time homeless encampment along the two streets.
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A Deschutes County judge late Monday afternoon denied an injunction sought by homeless residents along Hunnell and Clausen roads to block a planned clearing and closure of their years-old encampment, due to start at midnight, saying the city followed its camping code and rules in legal fashion.
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In partnership with local law enforcement agencies and Deschutes 9-1-1, Deschutes County Behavioral Health has launched a new Community Crisis Response program.
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A suspected drunk driver without a valid license drove away from a Bend Police traffic stop Sunday evening and hit 75 mph while weaving down the Bend Parkway before he got off, stopped and gave a false name when arrested, police said.
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A Bend man who was denied a glass of wine from a closed downtown Bend restaurant Sunday night robbed the server of about $300, punched another employee and ran away, but was caught by police after a chase on foot, officers said.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The bodies of four women began appearing in wooded areas in northwest Oregon in February, though police initially said the cases appeared to be unconnected. But on Monday, prosecutors dropped a bombshell, saying they are linked and “at least one person of interest”
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A 23-year-old Bend man was arrested in a La Pine-area traffic stop Friday, accused in the stabbing of another man late last month at Cascade West Grub & Ale House, police said.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure – one of the toughest in the nation – is constitutional. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled that banning large capacity magazines and requiring a permit to purchase a gun falls in line with “the nation’s history and tradition of regulating
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Deschutes County Circuit Judge Wells Ashby held an emergency hearing late Friday afternoon on a request for an injunction to block the city’s planned clearing of a homeless encampment next week on Hunnell and Clausen roads, then set another hearing for Monday, saying he needs more information.
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“Great news from the federal court today!” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said of a judge’s ruling Friday upholding controversial gun Ballot Measure 114. But a gun-rights group had a decidedly different reaction and said it expects to prevail upon appeal.
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A 57-year-old woman was cited on reckless burning, offensive littering and criminal mischief charges after her unattended burn barrel sparked a quarter-acre wildfire off China Hat Road southeast of Bend, authorities said.
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A Gresham man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday after he was arrested transporting methamphetamine to Deschutes County.
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