Archive for the ‘East Portland crime’ Category

Police investigate homicide in Wilkes neighborhood

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Last night, police officers responded to a call of shots fired at a residence in the 14800 block of Northeast Fremont Court in the Wilkes neighborhood of outer east Portland.

According to a Portland Police Bureau news release, arriving officers found a deceased adult male at a residence. Immediately, they began searching the area for a suspect and called for Homicide Detectives and the Forensic Evidence Division.

Investigators are on scene and no additional details area available at this time as this is an active and ongoing investigation.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Lt. Robert King, 503-823-0010, pager: 503-790-1779, or email him at Robert.King@portlandoregon.gov.


Shots fired at distubance last night

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

In a news release, the Portland Police said last night, near Southeast 130th Avenue and Division Street in outer Southeast Portland, shots were fired during a disturbance.

Kevin Eugen Millage

En route, the dispatcher told East Precinct officers shots were fired and that a caller to 911 stated there were more than 20 people involved in the disturbance of the peace.

Officers located shell casings in the street; witnesses and suspects were interviewed with one man arrested related to the disturbance, 34-year-old Kevin Eugene Millage.

There were no reported gunshot victims.


Thieves steal hospital employees’ property

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Portland Police are asking for the public’s help identifying two women who entered the employee’s locker room at Portland Adventist Medical Center, 10123 S.E. Market St., Friday, April 20, and stole employees’ property.

Hospital surveillance cameras captured images of the suspects as they walked through the east Portland hospital, then into the employee area.

The police described them as in their 20′s with brown hair and wearing dark, hooded sweatshirts.


Suspect vehicle rams police car, gets away after high speed chase in southeast Portland today

Friday, April 13th, 2012

According to a news release from the Portland Police Bureau, this afternoon, officers pursued a northbound vehicle on Southeast 84th Avenue near Flavel Street  traveling at a high rate of speed.

Police got behind the vehicle on Southeast 82nd Avenue and followed it southbound as it attempted to elude officers.

1994 Honda Accord

Police pursued the vehicle onto Malden Street where the suspect vehicle did a rapid u-turn, then rammed the front of the patrol car, and sped away southbound on 82nd Avenue. The officers continued to pursue for a short distance but terminated the pursuit.


Tip leads police to quick arrest

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Last night, around 8 p.m., police responded to a report of an armed robbery outside Jody’s Bar & Grill, 12035 N.E. Glisan St. in east Portland.

The adult male victim told police that two people, a man and woman, approached him in the parking lot of the strip club demanding money and brandishing a weapon.
After taking his cash and wallet, the suspects fled on foot.

Robert Michael Delgado.

Police, including a K-9 unit, conducted a neighborhood search for the suspects, but they eluded capture.


Police dog bites cop instead of snacking burglars

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Early this morning, near 6 a.m., Portland Police officers responded to a burglar alarm at Madison High School, 2735 N.E. 82nd Ave.

Many officers arrived in the area and began setting up a perimeter around the school.

As officers and a police K-9 unit were staging to enter the building, two people ran out of the school and disappeared quickly into a fog bank.

Officers and the police dog began chasing the burglars on foot. During the chase, and likely due to the dense fog, the police dog bit one of the officers instead of the burglar.


East Portland suicide identified

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

A person who committed suicide after firing shots in the garage of an outer southeast Portland residence has been identified as 43-year-old Joshua Stallings.

On Friday evening, police officers assigned to East Precinct responded to a call of shots fired at a residence in the 13500 block of Southeast Salmon Street. Upon arriving, officers learned the suspect was the ex-boyfriend of a woman who lived at the residence.

According to the police news release, the man, despondent came to the residence with a gun and threatened to kill the house’s occupants. Stallings fired two shots in the garage and people in the house fled. Based on the information provided to officers at the scene, the Special Emergency Reaction Team was activated per Portland Police Bureau policy.


Suspect in Parkrose shooting arrested

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

This morning, around 4 a.m., East Precinct police officers went to a residence in the 12100 block of Southeast Bush Street with information the suspect in the October 6th shooting in Parkrose — 33-year-old Skylar Sherwood Shaffer — would be there.

Officers deployed around the location and, by loud speaker, announced their presence then demanded Shaffer come out, which he did and was arrested without incident.

Parkrose shooting suspect 33-year-old Skylar Sherwood Shaffer was arrested this morning.

Shaffer was transported to the Detective Division downtown where he was interviewed; he was later lodged in the Multnomah County Detention Center and charged with Attempted Aggravated Murder and is being held in lieu of $250,000 dollars bail.


Home invasion robbery in east Portland

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Tonight, near 10 p.m., a home invasion robbery took place in the 2700 block of Northeast 102nd Avenue in east Portland’s Parkrose neighborhood.

Prior to arriving at the scene, officers learned there were three armed suspects wearing masks. A husband and wife and their adult son were the victims of the residential robbery.

The husband and wife suffered non-life threatening injuries in the course of the hold-up and were transported to a nearby hospital.  Police also report shots were fired inside the home by the suspects during the course of the robbery; it is believed one of the suspects was injured in the robbery.


Shots fired in Northeast Portland last night

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

Last night, just after midnight, Portland Police Officers assigned to East Precinct responded to a calls of multiple shots fired in the area of Northeast 79th and Glisan.  Officers were directed by dispatch to The Peoples Bar and Grill at 7901 Northeast Glisan Street.

The windows of the bar was struck several times by gunfire, shattering the businesses’ windows.  A vehicle parked on 79th Avenue, just south of Glisan Street, was hit by  a number of bullet strikes.  Officers located numerous shell casings in the street.