PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Jon Harder had access to it all.

At the height of his “success,” he touted his wealth to be $300 million. He maintained an “obscene” standard of living, according to federal prosecutors.

Private jets. Six homes. Luxury vehicles. Even diamond rings worth far more than a typical down payment on an average priced American home.

Harder, according to federal prosecutors, was a man fueled by greed. They described his crimes as a “weapon of mass financial destruction.”

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Simons sentenced Harder to 15 years in prison, which is the amount of time Assistant United States Attorneys Michelle Holman Kerin and Allan M. Garten had sought. Harder’s attorneys asked for 5 years.

Harder, according to court documents, is responsible for what federal authorities believe is the state’s largest investor fraud. Federal prosecutors describe Harder’s crime as “egregious” and say the damage is “truly stunning” in its breadth and scope.

By conservative estimates, Harder siphoned $130 million from more than 1,200 investors and banks.

Harder was the former president and CEO of Sunwest Management Inc. The company was founded in February 1992. It eventually became the fourth largest senior housing facility in the country.

The scheme, officials say, ran undetected for several years. According to the FBI, agents opened an investigation in 2008. Special agents conducted “hundreds of interviews and gathered and reviewed more than a million pages of documents,” the bureau said in a press release.

In January 2015, Harder plead guilty in federal court to one count of mail fraud and one count of felony money laundering.

His plea deal led him to admit that beginning in late 2007 through February 2008, he lied to more than 50 investors to obtain more than $5 million.

Federal prosecutors say Harder portrayed himself as an ethical and honest businessman who controlled a network of companies that bought, constructed and managed a nationwide portfolio of assisted living facilities.

His house of cards toppled when investigators from the U.S Postal Service, FBI, IRS, and U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee’s Office discovered Harder was running what prosecutors describe as a “Ponzi scheme.”

The scheme was based on false promises Harder made to investors. They were promised annual returns of 8-10%.

Those investors were left devastated and in a perilous financial situation. Victims were told they would be investing money in specific assisted living facilities and that Sunwest was on solid footing.

In reality, the money investors thought was going into specific facilities was actually commingled into bank accounts that Harder had access to, and would end up diverting millions to support his lavish lifestyle.

Investigators learned by 2006, Sunwest was losing millions of dollars a year. The company was in disarray, hemorrhaging cash, but investors had no idea. Some of the facilities run by Sunwest were only partially filled and often in disrepair. Payments to vendors were delayed. But Harder was able to cover his tracks.

He relied on cash infusions from investors in order to mask the failing business practices. Harder traveled the country to solicit new investors and bank loans.

The duping continued until June 2008 when the scheme came to a head.

“Knowing the full extent of the dire financial predicament of Southwest, Harder continued to defraud and mislead,” a federal sentencing memorandum states.

Many of his loans were in default and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. The company collapsed into the deep cash hole Harder had dug.

The vast majority of Harder’s victims were elderly. The pitch to these elderly investors was deliberate and calculated. Harder’s marketing strategy was to target individuals who were retiring and wanted a simplistic investment experience.

These people could not afford to lose the money they were investing in Sunwest.

“Jon Harder deceived the very people (who) depended on him to care for their investment, paid for by monies that in many instances took lifetimes to acquire,” federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

The scheme “decimated” the savings of many investors and destroyed countless lives.

One of the investors, a 68-year-old man with polio, met with Harder and explained that he was disabled and needed the income from the investment to live.

The man handed Harder a check for $1 million. The man now lives off social security and the little money he has borrowed from family and friends.

“Calculating.  Deceitful.  Greedy.  Audacious.  These are all terms that aptly describe the defendant’s actions in this case,” stated Special Agent in Charge Teri Alexander of IRS Criminal Investigation.  “In order to maintain the health of our economy, the law demands that we keep these characteristics in check.  IRS CI special agents will continue to bring their unique financial expertise to prosecution teams whose goal it is to root out unchecked greed and to bring some sense of justice to the victims left in the perilous wake of the unscrupulous.”

“Jon Harder targeted some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Retirees who invested their life savings. Seniors who depended on the assisted living facilities to care for them and keep them safe. Harder’s greed led to a lavish lifestyle of homes and cars and trips that most people could only imagine. It is only fitting that that greed now will lead him to years behind bars,” Greg Bretzing, the Special Agent in Charge for the FBI in Oregon, said in a news release.

The victims were forced to make new plans to support themselves. Many of the investors were already at, or close to, retirement age. Making matters worse, the 2008 stock market crash caused some victims to lose significant portions of their other financial investments. The housing market slowed. Investors looking to sell their homes just to “get by” found the value at a lower price.

While the victims struggled — many having to come out of retirement — Harder used their money to maintain his “incredibly lavish lifestyle,” federal prosecutors said. Records show Harder had monthly personal expenses that ranged from $200,000 to $600,000 a month.

The company maintained three aircraft, including a high performance “Bombardier” jet that cost $20 million. Harder used those planes to fly into vacation resorts in Alaska and the Cayman Islands.

“He lived as well as one could possibly live,” Allan M. Garten: Assistant United States Attorney

Harder had six homes — including one in the Pronghorn development — an exclusive, gated golf country club in Bend. His main residence, in Salem was situated on the banks of a private lake. He had a large staff at his home, including private tutors — at the rate of $6,200 per month — for his daughter.

“No extravagance was too much — when (Harder’s) daughter studied Ireland, he flew the teacher and the whole family flew first class to Ireland,” according to the federal sentencing memorandum. In February 2008, when his daughter started studying turtles, Harder flew the family down to the Galapagos Islands.

Some would say the scheme even had “deadly” consequences.

One victim “believed his wife died, in part, due to the stresses associated with the money they lost after 50 years of hard work,” according to the sentencing memorandum. Another victim told federal prosecutors she “believes the stress associated with the money her father lost, shortened his life.”

Federal prosecutors say Harder “has not accepted responsibility” for his crimes. He shifts blame to everyone else and “utilized clever mechanisms” to ensure his victims don’t further recoup their significant losses.

In a letter to the court, Harder apologizes for the collapse of Sunwest but not for his lies and deceit which caused people to invest in the company in the first place, according to federal prosecutors.

“There are no words that can adequately convey the pain I feel for the collapse of Sunwest, the investment losses sustained by the investors and the relationships destroyed,” Harder wrote in a statement to the court.

“(Harder) has done little, if anything, to acknowledge the lies he told investors,” federal prosecutors wrote.

Harder, born in Kansas, moved to Canyonville, Oregon with his family when he was 4 1/2 years old. He was first introduced to assisted living facilities around the age of 12 when his father worked as a plumber at a senior home. He graduated Walla Walla College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

His attorneys wrote in court filings that “there is no evidence that Mr. Harder committed the scheme to defraud…simply to gain and aggrandize personal wealth…Nor is there any evidence that Mr. Harder intended or foresaw the loss suffered by the Sunwest investors as a result of Sunwest’s collapse.”

Harder and his defense attorney dispute the claims that Harder’s crimes are the hallmark of a classic Ponzi scheme.

“For years, the SEC, the government and the media have portrayed Sunwest as a Ponzi operation despite the fact that the evidence does not support this claim,” his attorneys wrote.

His attorneys provided the court with a clearer picture of the reality Harder has faced since his indictment. For the past four years, he has lived in a shared, small house in North Dakota with seven other men.

Harder’s defense team sought a 5 year prison sentence — calling it “sufficient but not greater than necessary.”

They point out that this is Harder’s first conviction and that a five year sentence is “not a slap on the wrist: it is 260 weeks, 1,825 days. Anyone who thinks five years incarnation is a slap on the wrist has not visited a federal prison lately.”

For his part, Harder writes to the court that he is “sorry” for letting down his longtime friends, investors, employees and banks. “I feel incredibly badly for all the carnage and problems that I have caused.”

“I know I was reckless by growing so quickly, and in using other people’s money to do so, but I never intended to harm anyone,” Harder wrote.

The formal sentencing of Harder was in itself atypical. There had already been a “Phase One” that lasted three weeks. That itself is longer than most trials  in the district of Oregon. Harder has already acknowledged he intends to appeal, according to court filings.

“Phase Two” of Harder’s sentencing concluded in federal court in downtown Portland on Tuesday.

“From our stand point, basically, this was a weapon of mass financial destruction,” Garten said. “There were thousands upon thousands of people who were directly or indirectly impacted by the crimes committed Jon Harder.”

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On July 20, 2011, Larry Ma sat in his car in Southeast Portland. Gunshots rang out and Ma drove south for a few blocks.

He crashed into a yard at 2214 SE 135th Avenue where officers found him bleeding and wounded from a gunshot. He was rushed to a  nearby hospital but later died from his injuries.

Larry Ma was 18.

The shots were fired around 10:20 p.m. that night 4 years ago in the area of SE 135th and Sherman. An immediate search for suspects did not find anyone, and since that time no one has been arrested in connection with the crime.

A $2500 reward has now been offered by Crime Stoppers of Oregon for information in the case that leads to an arrest. Tipsters can remain anonymous.

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GRESHAM, Ore. (KOIN) — A registered sex offender was arrested Wednesday for allegedly posing as a teen and sending explicit photos to a 13-year-old girl, police said.

Christopher Michael Scott, 22, first met the girl in August on meetme.com, a social networking site, Gresham Police Dept. said.

According to the girl’s mother, Scott posed as “Jake Wolf”, a 16-year-old boy, and chatted with her for just about an hour before asking to meet up.

“I looked through the messages and was just completely disgusted with what I saw,” the girl’s mother, who chose to remain anonymous, said. “On those apps you can be pretty much whoever you want to be.”

The registered sex offender allegedly sent the girl explicit photos of himself and asked for pictures of her in return.

Detectives believe there may be more victims. They’re urging parents to take certain steps in order to prevent their kids from getting into dangerous situations online.

“I think all parents should have passwords to their kids’ social media,” the girl’s mother said. She recalled having a “gut instinct” something was wrong when she found her daughter’s tablet hidden under a pillow.

“The more involved you get, the better off you are,” she said.

Police agree, saying parents should require kids to give them their passwords, in addition to restricting them from chatting online after certain hours and syncing their phones with a family computer.

If you think your child is a victim, you’re asked to call Gresham Police at 503.618.2719.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Investigators say when they entered a motel room in Southeast Portland they found two children huddling under blankets inside a room that was filthy with bugs flying all over.

The father — Rory Gene Phillips — appeared in court on Wednesday and was charged with burglary, theft, unlawful possession of heroin, child neglect, and endangering the welfare of a minor.

According to court documents, on Nov. 5, police responded to a bar in the 3200 block of Southeast Hawthorne. The bar had been ransacked and $400 in cash was missing from the office. Another $300 from the cash register had been taken. The investigation revealed that an employee who had been fired was dating Phillips. Another employee said she was “100%” certain the person in the video was Phillips.

On Nov. 17 officers responded to a motel in the 3100 block of Southeast Powell. They were met by an employee who told them she could hear two children crying. While police were on the phone with DHS, Phillips returned, according to court documents. He told them he went to a nearby grocery store. While police were talking with Phillips, they “immediately observed him to be under the influence of an opiate,” according to court documents.

Phillips, records show, admitted he had just used heroin. He also admitted he left the children in the motel room without any supervision.

Officers say the boy, 3, had feces on his leg and in his diaper. The boy wasn’t wearing any other clothing.

When police were looking through the motel room, they found drug residue and evidence, according to records.

“Those are my dad’s pipes,” the girl, 6, told police, according to court documents.

Phillips is scheduled to be back in court later this month.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The contraband was carefully wrapped in corn husks and concealed in the luggage of a traveler when authorities moved in for a tamale takedown at Los Angeles International Airport.

The search by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents turned up 450 pork tamales individually packaged in plastic bags.

“Although tamales are a popular holiday tradition, foreign meat products can carry serious animal diseases,” said Anne Maricich, CBP acting director of field operations in Los Angeles.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday the customs form filed by the traveler from Mexico acknowledged the person was carrying food but had lied when asked if there was any meat.

Tamales contain cornmeal, meat or other fillings cooked in husks or leaves.

The tamales seized Nov. 2 at the airport were destroyed under CBP supervision. The traveler was assessed a $1,000 civil penalty for commercial activity with the intent to distribute.

During fiscal year 2014, CBP agriculture specialists nationwide issued 75,330 civil violations and intercepted more than 1.6 million animal by-product, meat and plant/soil quarantine products.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes, with the judge describing his “perversion and lawlessness” as “extreme.”

Judge Tanya Walton Pratt disregarded prosecutors’ recommendation that Fogle get 12½ years behind bars, opting for a stiffer term of 15 years and eight months in prison. She could have sentenced him to up to 50 years.

In explaining her sentence, the federal judge noted how fortunate Fogle was to land his lucrative deal to be the face of Subway after he lost more than 200 pounds in college, partly by eating the chain’s sandwiches.

“What a gift, to have such a professional windfall fall in your lap,” she said. But Pratt said Fogle blew the chance he’d been given by living a double life and pointed out that the crimes he committed weren’t victimless.

“The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme,” Pratt said, who also ordered Fogle to submit to a lifetime of post-prison supervision and pay a $175,000 fine. She recommended that Fogle receive sex offender treatment in prison and said she’ll recommend he serve his time at a federal lockup in Littleton, Colorado, that specializes in such treatment.

Fogle didn’t show any visible reaction when he heard his sentence, but some family members who were in the courtroom began crying and hugging each other after judge ordered Fogle taken into custody.

Before he was sentenced, the 38-year-old father of two addressed the court, apologizing to his victims and his family and vowing to be a better person.

“I so regret that I let so many of you down,” he told the court.

“I want to redeem my life. I want to become a good, decent person. I want to rebuild my life,” he said.

Fogle pleaded guilty to one count each of travelling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography, as per a deal he struck with prosecutors in August, a month after his suburban Indianapolis home was raided.

Fogle’s lawyers called John Bradford, a professor of forensic psychiatry at the University of Ottawa in Canada, to testify at Thursday’s hearing.

Speaking by phone, Bradford said he analyzed Fogle on Aug. 17 and concluded that Fogle suffers from hypersexuality, mild pedophilia, and alcohol abuse and dependency.

He said he took Fogle’s sexual history, including his sexual interests and tested him to determine what images caused Fogle to be sexually aroused. He said Fogle also told him that he had “a fairly extensive history” of using prostitutes for sex. Under cross-examination, Bradford said Fogle admitted to paying a minimum of about $12,000 a year for sex.

Bradford said Fogle told him he had engaged in sex with minors of 16 and 17 years of age, referring to two teenage prostitutes Fogle had admitted paying for sex, and said that he had a sexual interest in teenagers.

“He started viewing pornography in college and had a fairly extensive collection of pornography in college,” Bradford said.

Bradford said Fogle apparently had a compulsive eating disorder before he lost all of the weight that led to him becoming the face of Subway, and that his hypersexuality seemed to develop shortly after he shed the extra pounds.

He also said Fogle, whose wife filed for divorce on the day he agreed to plead guilty, admitted that he occasionally fantasized about children. “His main interest was in young females and some interest in adolescent males.”

Bradford said he concluded that Fogle suffered from “mild pedophilia.”

“I did believe that he did suffer from pedophilia, but it was pedophilia that did not involve acting out that with a child.”

Bradford said that Fogle told him he had fantasies about prepubescent females and had masturbated to those fantasies.

“There’s no evidence I have that he actually engaged in sex” with such children.

In his plea deal, Fogle admitted that had sex at New York City hotels with two girls under age 18 — one of whom was 16 at the time — and paid them for that sex. He also acknowledged receiving child pornography produced by Russell Taylor, the former executive director of The Jared Foundation, a nonprofit Fogle started to raise awareness and money to fight childhood obesity.

Authorities said Taylor secretly filmed 12 minors as they were nude, changing clothes, or engaged in other activities using hidden cameras in his Indianapolis-area residences to produce child pornography. Taylor has agreed to plead guilty to child exploitation and child pornography charges.

Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum filed last week that Fogle received photos or videos from Taylor of eight of those 12 youths, and that some of those images were of girls as young as 12. Fogle could have stopped Taylor from victimizing some of minors, prosecutors have said, but he instead encouraged Taylor to produce additional child pornography.

Fogle agreed to pay a total of $1.4 million to his 14 victims, with each getting $100,000. Before Fogle entered his guilty pleas Thursday, one of his attorneys told the judge that Fogle had paid 12 of the 14 victims and turned over the checks for the last two victims before the proceedings began.

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VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — An attempt to steal a trailer from the driveway of a Vancouver home was thwarted by neighbors and caught on surveillance cameras.

Around 3:31 p.m. Wednesday, a pickup truck backed into the driveway of a home in the 1600 block of NE 107th and began hooking up the trailer to the pickup.

The woman who owns the trailer, Angela (who asked her last name not be used), told KOIN 6 News she and her husband were both at work when the trailer was nearly stolen.

She saw the video from their surveillance cameras, then took cell phone video of it and posted it online “to get it out there. Facebook moves pretty quick.”

Below is surveillance video provided to KOIN 6 News.

Neighbor Bob Boltz saw the pickup pull up and then drove his vehicle next to the truck, police said. The suspect driver took off but left behind the accomplice. Boltz then tackled the accomplice and briefly tangled in the street, but the accomplice managed to run away.

However, the accomplice left behind a shoe and his cell phone.

“I think it’s crazy that someone would actually come out in broad daylight and try and steal someone’s trailer,” said Boltz’s daughter-in-law Dayna Nichols.

She told KOIN 6 News her father-in-law was heading home after picking up Nichols’ sister from school when he saw the pickup truck back into the driveway.

He “didn’t recognize the truck and didn’t recognize who the people were,” she said, so he drove his own truck next to the suspect. He “hopped out of the truck, ran up and tackled the kid.”

As he did that the suspect drove off.

“So I pulled up to find out what the hell was going on, and that’s when the pickup took off, I mean big time fast, and this kid jumped up and took off running.”

Boltz and the accomplice fought in the street. “There’s basically a big mess of them rolling around hitting each other,” she said.

‘What the hell did you do that for?’

Boltz told KOIN 6 News they were coming back from grocery shopping at Walmart when he noticed the pickup backed up in the driveway.

“So I pulled up to find out what the hell was going on, and that’s when the pickup took off, I mean big time fast, and this kid jumped up and took off running,” he said.

He tackled the accomplice twice and then got hit in the side of the head. “I said, ‘What the hell did you do that for?'”

Boltz said he yelled for his daughter to call 911, but his phone was in his back pocket.

“So she grabs my phone, kicks the guy in the head, and then tries to call 911.”

He said he was trying to get the accomplice’s hands behind his back, but it didn’t work. “I’m 57-years-old. I mean, I ain’t no spring chicken anymore.”

Dayna Nichols said her father-in-law got punched in the eye and hurt his leg in the fracas, she said.

“I’m really proud of him because he actually got involved instead of being a bystander,” Nichols said.

Vancouver police responded with a K-9, but no one was located. The case remains active and 2 suspects are being sought.

The neighborhood

The families are long-time friends, she said, who share outings and keep an eye on each other all the time. “We’re just a big neighborhood unit.”

“I really hope he gets caught and that the neighborhood continues to look out for one another,” she said.  “We’re a really close neighborhood that if we continue to watch out, it will stop all this.”

Boltz said the reason he stepped in was because he’s known his neighbors a long time. “I’d do it for any one of my neighbors.”

Angela said she wants the bad guys caught.

“I want them to go to jail. That was my family, my property. He violated that,” she said. “I’m a very strong advocate for the homeless and people who need help. But if you need help, ask for it.”

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An adult film actress is suing Josh Duggar, claiming the reality TV star assaulted her on two occasions when consensual sex turned rough.

Ashley Stamm-Northup, known as Danica Dillon in movies, filed the lawsuit Tuesday. She says Duggar approached her at a Philadelphia strip club in March and paid $600 for lap dances. She alleges he then paid $1,500 for “her company” and they had sex at a hotel.

During the act, she claims, he “physically assaulted her to the point of causing her physical and emotional injuries.” A few days later, he came to a suburban Philadelphia strip club where she was performing, she says, and tried to apologize for his earlier actions. The lawsuit says she was then assaulted a second time. She’s seeking $500,000 in damages from the former star of TLC’s now-canceled “19 Kids and Counting” reality show.

Stamm-Northup’s lawyer, Marc Frumer, said Thursday his client didn’t go to police with her allegations.

Two calls to a Duggar family attorney and an email to a family spokeswoman weren’t returned Thursday.

The reality show chronicled the wholesome home life of Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their now-19 children. It was pulled from the network in May over revelations that Josh Duggar had molested four of his sisters and a babysitter. He’s the oldest of the Duggar siblings.

In August, he publicly apologized for a pornography addiction and cheating on his wife.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) – A 63-year-old man will be arraigned on Friday on charges of criminal negligent homicide and driving while under the influence of intoxicants.

Records show that Richard Earl Dryden was indicted in October following the death of Thomas Gazzola.

The Oregonian/Oregonian Live reports that Gazzola was a Washington State University Vancouver math professor and was known nationally as a puzzle expert.

According to the indictment, Dryden “did unlawfully, and with criminal negligence, cause the death” of Gazzola. The crash happened at the intersection of Northeast 60th and Northeast Wasco on June 3.

Officers with the Major Crash Team responded and performed a field sobriety test on Dryden, which he failed, according to court documents. He admitted that he had consumed at least 3 alcoholic drinks.

Originally, Dryden had faced charges of third-degree assault and DUII.

Dryden, according to court records, lives in Longview, Wash. A criminal background check only shows a reckless driving citation in 1979.

BEND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say the Oregon State Police laboratories in Bend and Pendleton are temporarily closed while police investigate a forensic analyst who worked at both labs.

The East Oregonian and Bend Bulletin report that Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel says the analyst skimmed drugs from samples submitted to the Bend lab for testing. She worked at the Pendleton lab before moving to Bend in 2012.

State police told prosecutors in early September that they were investigating the analyst.

Hummel says evidence from Bend and Pendleton will be sent to one of the state’s other forensic laboratories in Clackamas, Central Point or Springfield

State police Sgt. Cari Boyd says the Bend and Pendleton labs were still accredited Thursday.

Oregon State Police declined to comment.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — A man who ran over two trick-or-treaters last year, killing one, was sentenced Friday to 200 months in prison.

On October 31, 2014, 48-year-old Duane Abbott lost control of his car, jumped a curb and hit 7-year-old Cadence Boyer, her mother Annie Boyer, another woman named Chelina Alsteen and a 6-year-old girl. Cadence was killed. Alsteen was badly hurt.

“He hurt us bad, doing drugs and driving on Halloween. Not ok.”

Alsteen was in a medically induced coma right after the crash. She had a collapsed lung and fractured spine. She is still going through physical therapy. She and Cadence’s parents confronted Abbott in court, where he did express remorse, crying at times.

“Today was bittersweet, kind of. He said what I was hoping he would say but he still didn’t look at us, didn’t make eye contact,” said Cadence’s mother. “It’s hard to judge him and know for sure what he’s feeling and how remorseful he really is because sometimes you can really feel it and really see it through people and what they say and how they act and how they engage with you.”

Cadence’s father, Kevin Boyer, wasn’t so sure.

“Seems like he was almost saying it on his own behalf to make sure that he got a lighter sentence if anything. That’s how I feel.”

Abbott plead guilty to vehicular homicide and got nearly the maximum sentence. Both Arnold and Alsteen think the sentence is fair but they’re still not sure if Abbott realizes how much his actions changed their lives.

“I’m glad it’s done. Now I have peace. Justice was done,” Alsteen said.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — When police arrived at the scene of a single car crash at 89th and Burnside on June 11, 2010, they found a man with life-threatening injuries. The car hit a power pole and stopped in the yard of a house in that area.

David Cosmo Jenkins was rushed to a hospital for treatment, though he later died from his injuries. But just before he crashed, the 32-year-old was shot.

An autopsy concluded Jenkins died from the gunshot wound.

Investigators pieced together information and learned he was headed west on Burnside near 89th when he was shot. There is no indication this was gang-related, police said.

No one has ever been connected with this killing. Now, Crime Stoppers is offering a $2500 reward for information that leads to an arrest.

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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) – A woman was undergoing a mental evaluation after authorities say she killed six of neighbor’s chickens near Shedd, Oregon.

Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley says a homeowner called Thursday night because a woman was on the property with a shovel and a knife. Deputies found the intruder stabbing chickens with a wooden stake.

Riley says the woman was ordered to leave the coop and drop the weapon. Instead, she came at deputies with the stake before they dropped her with a Taser.

Riley says the woman then grabbed a rag and tried to swallow it before deputies intervened to prevent her from choking.

The 55-year-old woman lives nearby and deputies noticed smoke coming from her house. Firefighters found an inflatable plastic ball in a hot oven.

The case has been forwarded to a prosecutor for possible charges of trespass, animal abuse and attempted assault on a public safety officer.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — Police are investigating an attempted abduction near the Parkrose neighborhood.

The teen girl is safe. Officers say she was not sexually assaulted but did suffered minor scrapes during a struggle with the suspect.

The incident was reported at 4:39 p.m. on Friday from the 5200-block of Northeast 92nd.

Officers spoke with the girl and learned that she was dragged into the bushes by a stranger near the entrance to a mobile home community called the Sumner Estates Mobile Home Park.

The girl fought back and was able to run home and get help.

Officers have searched the area, but have not immediately located the suspect who is described as an adult black male, in his 30s. He is about 6-feet tall and was last seen wearing a white tee-shirt, dark pants and a red baseball cap. Officers say the man may have been wearing a hoodie.

Police say they have not received any similar reports of this activity.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call 503.823.3333.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A black student at Lewis and Clark College was assaulted Friday night and college officials said they have not ruled out that the incident may have been a bias crime.

In an emergency notification sent out to college students, staff and faculty, Dean of Students Anna Gonzalez wrote: “One of our students was physically assaulted in the estate gardens, near the reflecting pool, early Saturday morning. Our student was treated on scene by medical personnel, is now physically safe, and is being supported on campus.”

KOIN 6 News has learned the assault was reported on campus at 12:49 a.m. Saturday. Both police and firefighters responded but the student didn’t require any medical attention.

According to Sgt. Pete Simpson, the 26-year-old student, a black male, told police he was confronted and assaulted by three white males near the campus pool. The attackers used racially charged language but Simpson wouldn’t use specifics. Police learned the incident actually occurred around 9 p.m. and the student waited to report the assault until after talking with friends.

“The victim told police that the suspect(s) used racial epithets before assaulting him. The victim fought back and was able to get away and go to his residence on campus. The victim did not require medical attention as a result of the assault,” PPB Sgt. Pete Simpson said in a prepared statement.

Gonzalez’s letter was sent out at 3:45 a.m. Saturday. It was titled “An Urgent Letter to the Community” and stated: “The suspects were described as three males. We are not dismissing the possibility that this is a bias crime.”

The suspects are described by police as three college-age white males, 5-feet, 8-inches tall with a medium build.

‎Associate Dean of Students for Student Engagement, Cathy Busha, posted to Facebook a message from Twitter that reads: “Campus Safety & PPB are investigating the assault of a student. Do not be out and about by yourself. Ask us for a ride if you feel unsafe.”

Earlier this week, students at Lewis & Clark College gathered to show their support for black students on campus after an anonymous racist message was posted on social media. The racist message included threats of violence against black students and was posted on the smartphone app Yik Yak.

Another message was reportedly posted Saturday night. Simpson confirms its validity but won’t say if either posts have any direct connection to this incident.

Both the attack and the social media posts remain under investigation, although the latter could prove more difficult.

“It’s a challenge for us to initiate a criminal investigation, because of the first amendment, and we’ll continue to investigate the post piece,” said Simpson. “If we can articulate there’s a criminal offense, then certainly we can do that. We aren’t there yet, that’s still under investigation.”

Portland Mayor Charlie Hales released a statement, saying in part:

“We are in a particularly sensitive time here in Portland and around the world. It is imperative that we do as we’ve done time and time again, and show the world that in Portland, we take care of each other; that we choose to live in Portland because of community, not in spite of it.”

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Todd Prosser at 503-823-9320, todd.prosser@portlandoregon.gov.

KOIN’s Eileen Park contributed to this report.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — John F. Kennedy has now been dead longer than he lived. But questions still arise over who killed President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

The 35th President of the United States was shot to death as he and his wife, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, rode in an open-top Lincoln through the streets of downtown Dallas. Texas Gov. John Connally and his wife were sitting in front of the Kennedys.

Shots rang out at 12:30 p.m. local time, mortally wounding the president and seriously injuring the governor. John F. Kennedy was 46.

Less than an hour later, Dallas police officer JD Tippit was shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested about 30 minutes later inside a movie theater. He was arraigned the next day for the murders of President Kennedy and Tippit.

Then on November 24, Oswald was shot to death on live television by night club owner Jack Ruby as Oswald was being transferred from Dallas police headquarters. Ruby was arrested, tried and convicted but died in 1967 while awaiting a new trial.

History.com states: “The official Warren Commission report of 1964 concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy. Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee’s findings, as with those of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.”

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman pulled over for speeding along I-5 was later arrested for allegedly transporting more than 24 pounds of meth.

An Oregon State Police trooper pulled over Teri L. Baker on I-5 near Eugene around 10 p.m. Friday. The trooper noticed some “criminal activity,” officials said, and called Springfield Police to bring a K-9.

The dog found 24.4 pounds of meth in hidden compartment in the Honda Pilot, authorities said.

Baker, 55, is from Kent, Washington. She’s being held in the Lane County Jail and the investigation continues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland detectives released a forensic sketch of a man suspected of trying to kidnap a teenage girl in Northeast Portland Friday afternoon.

According to police, the incident happened around 4:30 p.m. Friday on the 5200 block of Northeast 92nd Avenue.

The 13-year-old victim’s father told KOIN 6 News she was walking to pick her younger siblings up from a nearby bus stop when the man tried to abduct her.

“She started walking a little bit faster, and the guy also started walking faster,” her father, who wished to remain anonymous, said. “He pushed her to the ground and then grabbed her.”

The girl told police she screamed and kicked as she was dragged for several blocks into some bushes by the entrance of Sumner Estates Mobile Home Park. A man in a green truck saw what was going on and confronted the suspect.

“That’s when she ran away,” her father said.

She described the suspect as a black man in his 30s, about 6-feet tall wearing a white T-shirt, dark pants and a red Chicago Bulls cap.

Her father said she’s doing OK since the incident, but now she and her siblings are afraid to go outside. The scariest part, her father said, was that it happened on a weekday afternoon in plain sight.

Police would like to speak with anyone who may have witnessed the attempted abduction.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Detective Lori Fonken at 503.823.1081.

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A Medford man who beat his girlfriend because she didn’t bring In-N-Out burgers home for dinner pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.

The Mail Tribune reports 21-year-old Christian Berry was also put on probation for five years.

In-N-Out opened its first Oregon location on Sept. 9 in Medford.

Police dispatched to a hospital early the next day found a woman with a lump on her face and extensive bruising. She said her boyfriend punched her, kicked her, struck her with a cane and ordered her to sleep on the floor.

The 6-foot-2, 300-pound Berry told detectives it was because she didn’t bring the burgers.

The victim on Monday asked Judge Timothy Barnack to lift a no-contact order, saying she misses Berry and they want to get married.

The judge said he’d let a probation officer decide whether to allow contact after Berry takes anger management classes.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A convicted rapist-kidnapper who was released from prison in June 2015 is now considered a fugitive after failing to report to his parole officer.

Dennis John Davis has a long criminal history that includes raping strangers, both men and women. When he was sentenced in July 1993, he was designated a dangerous offender.

He spent more than 20 years in prison for rape, sodomy and kidnapping. His criminal record also included property crimes and non-sexual violent convictions, authorities said.

Since his release on June 12, he’s been jailed twice for parole violations. Now a warrant has been issued because he did not report to his parole officer.

Davis, 56, is white, 5-feet-9, 197 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes. He was last known to be in the Forest Park/Washington Park area over the weekend.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.