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Hillsboro Search Turns Grim as Investigators Recover Body Parts From Tualatin River
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Responding to reports from a kayaker that they had found a body part in the Tualatin River on Friday, Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) searchers found another body part the next day.
Deputies went to…
Portland Couple Faces Drug and Gun Charges After Police Use Stop Sticks to Foil Escape
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland couple was arrested and charged after officers from the North Precinct found them in possession of large quantities of fentanyl and methamphetamine, $10,000 in cash, a semiautomatic pistol, several firearm…
Coos Bay Mother Files Wrongful Death Suit Over Son’s Death in Back of Police Car
COOS COUNTY, Ore. — Jennifer Smith, the mother of Nathan Bradford Smith (33), has filed a wrongful death civil rights lawsuit against the City of Coos Bay, claiming her son died in the back of a patrol car while a Coos Bay Police officer…
Douglas County Crash Leaves Passenger Dead as Police Seek Armed DUI Suspect
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — A warrant was issued for the arrest of a Merlin, Douglas County man, 65-year-old Craig Hindle, on Thursday. Hindle faces six charges arising from the fatal crash in April that resulted in the death of his passenger.…
Las Vegas Man With Oregon Drug Convictions Gets Six Years for Firearms Heist in Nevada
A convicted felon, who previously committed drug trafficking crimes in the Oregon counties of Douglas, Clackamas, and Coos, has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of theft of firearms from a licensee…
Fentanyl Dealer Brought Down by Wiretaps Gets Five Years in Jackson County Court
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — 32-year-old John Steven Diaz of Eagle Point, one of the 15-member drug trafficking family arrested in January on fentanyl trafficking charges, was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday.
Diaz played a…
Oregon Man Fakes EV Project and Walks Away With $1.8 Million in Carbon Credit Cash
A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge has ruled that Merlin K. Thompson of Tillamook must repay $1.8 million in monthly installments of $50 to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that he admitted defrauding.
He…
Honduran Fentanyl Dealer Caught With 6,000 Pills in Downtown Portland Gets 70 Months in Prison
PORTLAND, Ore. — As part of a crackdown on fentanyl trafficking in downtown Portland, police officers arrested a Honduran national living illegally in Oregon who was this week sentenced to 70 months in a federal prison.
Ermin…
Feds Give 14-Year Sentence to California Man Who Delivered Meth to Oregon Customers
A 34-year-old Californian has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for trafficking 11 pounds of methamphetamine in Oregon.
Banuelos was the target of a drug trafficking investigation by the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE)…
Oregon Woman Spent Seven Years Taking Dead Mother’s Social Security Checks to Pay Her Bills
A 51-year-old Salem woman who stole $101,000 Social Security benefits from her dead mother’s bank account did so to pay her bills, an Oregon U.S. District Judge was told yesterday.
Judge Adrienne Nelson sentenced Donna J. Royston to…