Newport man ‘violently plunged weapon’ into victim
NEWPORT, Ore. (KOIN) — A Newport man was arrested after police said he stabbed a man Sunday afternoon. David Jensen reportedly walked up to the victim and started violently plunging a sharp weapon into...
View ArticleSociologist: White Power groups active in area
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In his State of the City speech last spring, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler reminded everyone that black people were not allowed to live in Oregon when it became a state in 1859....
View ArticleGresham man charged for child porn to change plea
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man accused of distributing child pornography is set to change his plea in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. The trial for Pablo Alberto Vazquez had been scheduled to start...
View ArticleFBI seizes child porn site, finds man with 13k images
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The FBI seized a child pornography website in 2015 and found a man with 13,000 images of child porn, according to court documents. Paul Stacker was identified by agents after...
View ArticleGang team arrests man for NE Portland shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man with a long criminal record of gun violence is facing allegations of attempted aggravated murder. Detectives with the Portland Police Bureau’s Gang Enforcement Team (GET)...
View ArticleJogger punched in unprovoked NE Portland attack
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A jogger was punched in an unprovoked attack in Northeast Portland Sunday and police are on the lookout for the assailant. Around 3:10 p.m., the jogger was running near NE 15th...
View ArticleKidnapping-ransom scam hits Washington County families
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — Several people told the Washington County Sheriff’s Office they were called on Monday by someone who claimed to have kidnapped a family member and demanded ransom. The...
View ArticleReport: Woods had marijuana, painkillers in system at arrest
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this year, a report...
View ArticleEscaped WA inmates seen in SE Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two inmates, who escaped while working on a fire crew in Goldendale, were spotted in Portland Tuesday, according to authorities. Corrections workers noticed Tyray Munter and...
View ArticleAlleged home flooder faces grand jury indictment
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man who was reportedly naked when he vandalized more than 40 homes and caused nearly $50,000 has been indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury. Moyhijah Widger-Chongo was...
View ArticleCharges modified in murder of missing Portland man
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Prosecutors will not charge a 23-year-old woman with murder, but have instead charged her with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and hindering the prosecution...
View ArticlePortland coke dealer sentenced in federal court
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Federal prosecutors say a North Portland man made more than $300,000 in five years by selling 20 kilograms of cocaine. Andrew James Kaptur will be sentenced on Tuesday in U.S....
View ArticleSex trafficking surge not expected during eclipse
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Portland Police Bureau’s Sex Trafficking Unit says at this point, they have no reason to suspect there would be a surge in human sex trafficking in the metro area given the...
View ArticleMan barricaded inside parents’ Vancouver home
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man barricaded himself inside his parents’ Vancouver home Wednesday afternoon, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said. The SWAT team is outside the NE 119th Street home after...
View ArticleSE Portland apartment complex riddled with bullets
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Somewhere between 10-30 shots were fired at an apartment complex early Thursday, police say. An apartment complex was damaged in a shooting on SE Stark Street, August 17 2017....
View ArticleFeds: OSU chemistry grad linked to ‘clandestine’ drug lab
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry is being linked to a drug case involving synthetic opioids, including U-47700, and a clandestine...
View Article‘Most Wanted’ suspect on the loose after I-5 chase
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man who spent time on Washington state’s Most Wanted List is on the loose after crashing a car near Wilsonville early Thursday morning during a chase by several police...
View Article‘NarcoBoss’ fentanyl dealer connected to overdoses
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man – who used the moniker “NARCOBOSS” – recently appeared in U.S. District Court on allegations that he was supplying fentanyl in connection with at...
View ArticleOvernight operation nabs Hillsboro shooting suspect
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A person suspected in a shooting in Hillsboro last weekend was arrested early Friday morning. The Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) took...
View ArticleDriver charged in crash that killed 2 passengers
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 29-year-old woman has been charged in connection to North Portland car crash that killed two people in June. The scene of the crash on N Columbia Boulevard, June 28 2017....
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