Portland News

A Portland man, who knowingly and intentionally used personal identification and bank account information to steal more than $426,000 in life savings of an intellectually disabled victim, has been sentenced to three years in prison.…

In a joint operation organized by the Portland Police Bureau, 24 people were arrested, a stolen vehicle was recovered, 19 grams of illicit drugs were seized, and stolen merchandise worth more than $2,600 was recovered in the Jantzen Beach…

After the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) indicated earlier this week that a suspicious body had been found in a trailer in the Lents neighborhood, near Southeast 84th Avenue and Southeast Insley Street, on Thursday, February 20, reports have…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Following a guilty finding by a Multnomah County jury in December on multiple counts, a  Multnomah County judge has now sentenced Dwayne Rayshon Driver, 29, to over 17 years in prison for a March 2023 shooting on a party…

PORTLAND, Ore. — After responding to reports on Thursday, February 20, of an unresponsive woman in the driver seat of a car in the parking lot of a church in the 4500 block of Northeast 116th Avenue A, Portland,  American Medical Response…

Joseph Chastain (33), who was given a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence on Friday, was described as a ‘rage-filled manic’ by victim Matt Griffin, who he attacked and injured with a hatchet. The road rage incident occurred on 12 August…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland's Hawthorne Bridge experienced an extended shutdown on Thursday, February 20, after a man, Rashawn L. Anderson, 44, climbed into the bridge structure and refused to cooperate with police, who attempted to get him…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Responding to a report on Thursday, February 20, at 9:12 p.m., that paramedics at the scene of a medical call had found a dead man in a travel trailer near Southeast 84th Avenue and Southeast Insley Street, in the Lents…

A forensic criminalist with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), whose blood alcohol content was more than double the legal limit while investigating a homicide, has been given a lifetime revocation of his police certification by a state…

A frail 74-year-old woman who pleaded no contest to shooting her husband in Southeast Portland has been sentenced to two years of probation by Circuit Court Judge Kelly Skye. The judge said the mandatory seven-and-a-half-year sentence for…