Police: Son kills mother, tries to dismember her
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — A man accused of killing his mother and trying to dismember her appeared in court on Tuesday morning. SWAT outside the home of Leisa Holt, February 17, 2017. (KOIN) Vancouver...
View ArticleWashington County child rape suspect sought
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – Washington County sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s to locate a man charged with sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12. Detective Robert L. Rookhuyzen...
View ArticleOpening statements heard in 2nd Malheur trial
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Opening statements began in the second trial stemming from last year’s armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. A jury last fall found standoff leader Ammon Bundy...
View ArticleWheeler says ‘mistakes’ made during protest arrests
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mayor Ted Wheeler said mistakes were made when police responded to a “Not My President’s Day” protest in downtown Portland Monday and forcefully took some people into custody. A...
View Article2 men from Mexico busted for meth on I-84
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -=- Two Mexican residents are in an Oregon jail after a traffic stop along I-84 revealed more than 13 pounds of meth. Monday afternoon an Oregon State Police trooper pulled over a...
View ArticleBoyfriend heartbroken after Vancouver woman killed
CLACKAMAS, Ore. (KOIN) — After 7 months together, Jeff Hesterley had to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Leisa Holt, the woman he called the love of his life. “She just meant too much to me,” Hesterley...
View ArticleArmed robber leaves Subway without cash
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Subway restaurant was robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning. An armed man approached the counter at the store on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, police said. The...
View ArticleMan arrested in PDX bar shooting has gun crime record
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Police arrested a 25-year-old man following a shooting outside a popular Southeast Portland bar. Earlier this week, a grand jury filed a 33-count indictment against DeAndrae D....
View ArticleEx-nurse asst. sentenced for patient sex assaults
HILLSBORO, Ore. (KOIN) — A former nursing assistant at Providence Saint Vincent was sentenced on Wednesday morning to 25 years for sexually assaulting several patients. He pleaded guilty to the...
View ArticleDetails of Trooper Cederberg shootout released
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Washington County District Attorney’s office has released details of the Christmas Day shooting that left Oregon State Trooper Nic Cederberg seriously wounded. Five of the...
View ArticleCaretaker charged after sexy dance for 100-year-old
SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — A caretaker at an assisted living center who police say was filmed performing a sexually provocative dance on a 100-year-old resident was doing it as a prank and trying to make...
View ArticleSeveral area businesses robbed overnight Tuesday
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Several Vancouver and Portland businesses were hit by robbers overnight Tuesday. Four businesses on Grand and East Mill Plain Blvd. were hit. One of them, Du’s Teriyaki, caught...
View ArticleBurns Airport Manager accused of theft
BURNS, Ore. (KOIN) – A former contractor for the City of Burns, who worked at the airport, is accused by a federal grand jury of wire fraud and theft. The indictment against Jeffrey Robert Cotton was...
View ArticleMCSO’s biggest drug bust: $2M in meth
TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN) — Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office made its biggest drug bust ever on Wednesday night, officials said during a press conference Thursday. Deputies seized $2 million in meth...
View ArticleTeen stabbed by classmate near North Salem HS
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A high school student in Salem was stabbed by a fellow student on Thursday afternoon near North Salem High School, police said. The victim was found by the school resource...
View ArticlePolice: Nerve agent found on face of Kim Jong Nam
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police said Friday that the half brother of North Korea’s leader who was killed in a Kuala Lumpur airport more than a week ago had a nerve agent on his eye and...
View Article2 Rainier women arrested for possible elder abuse
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two Rainier women were arrested Thursday for alleged elder abuse. A report from the Department of Human Services indicated that an 89-year-old woman was not getting the...
View ArticleCalifornia homicide suspect wanted in Klamath
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A man suspected of killing a woman in Northern California has been wanted in Oregon since a 2006 felony assault in Klamath Falls. The Herald and News reports a woman told...
View ArticleDocuments detail the death of Conley Fitchett
SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — Conley Fitchett, the 87-year-old man whose body was found in a freezer at his son’s home more than a year after he died, died of natural causes. The Marion County Medical...
View ArticleFormer students arrested for Cleveland HS fire
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two men were arrested after allegedly setting fires at Cleveland High School on Thursday morning. Devyn Julkowski and John Schrengohst, both 20 years old, allegedly broke into...
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