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The August 2020 incident caught on video showed Leon Drennan using racial slurs and pointing a handgun at Torrance Hunter, a resident at the Stewart Hotel in downtown Portland, local news station KTVB reported. Drennan owned the hotel at that time. During the Thursday hearing at Multnomah County Circuit Court, Drennan, 75, pleaded guilty to a number of criminal charges involving the incident with Hunter. The charges included one count of second-degree assault, one count of unlawful use of a

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green| May 22, 2026 A Multnomah County jury has awarded $808,000 to a Portland man whose 4-year-old cat contracted bird flu and died after eating raw chicken pet food. That included $8,000 in veterinary bills that jurors agreed Wild Coast Pet Foods must pay cat owner Tim Hanson. During the two-day trial this week, attorneys for Hanson argued that the company had assured customers it was testing its raw cat foods for bird flu when

The Oregonian | By Isabel Funk | May 5, 2026 A woman who collided with a driver fleeing police in a stolen car on Portland’s Southeast 82nd Avenue two years ago is suing the Portland Police Bureau, alleging its officers caused the crash by chasing the car thief. Selena Pinnell crashed into the other car, flipping it onto its roof, she said in the lawsuit filed Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. She was rushed to an emergency room for

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | April 27, 2026 Jeffrey Buckmeyer stepped into the Target next to Washington Square mall to ask an employee at the electronics counter for help freeing up memory on his iPhone. What happened next plagued the rest of the 43-year-old’s life: The employee claimed he saw young naked and bound girls — along with Buckmeyer in an aroused state — on Buckmeyer’s phone and alerted police. Days later, Buckmeyer was handcuffed in the parking

The Oregonian | By Zane Sparling | March 13, 2026 A Portland couple who allegedly became unwitting roommates with a horde of rodents have sued the owners of their Northeast Portland apartment complex. Bryan Padilla and his wife, Adilene, packed their bags and fled the mouse house after finding their 10-month-old son had popped a verminous corpse into his mouth on Dec. 22, according to a lawsuit filed last month in Multnomah County Circuit Court. In a Wednesday interview, Padilla,

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Troy Brynelson | March 4, 2026 A Marine veteran who was tackled by a federal officer during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland filed an excessive force lawsuit on Tuesday. It’s the first of what could be many legal claims lodged against the Trump administration for tactics at the embattled facility, where demonstrators have staged protests of fluctuating sizes since last spring. Daryn Herzberg, 35, claims federal officers targeted him

The New York Times | By Emily Flitter and Stacy Cowley | February 28, 2018 When signs of fraud appear on a customer’s account, such as a counterfeit check or an unauthorized withdrawal, a bank is required by law to investigate whether criminal activity has occurred. Wells Fargo had a simpler solution, according to a former employee: Close the account and drop the customer. Matthew Valles, a former fraud investigator for Wells Fargo in Portland, Ore., said the bank fired

Christian Science Monitor | By Cameron Pugh | February 3, 2026 Incidents in which federal immigration agents injured or killed people were ricocheting across the internet – and emerging in legal filings – well before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.  In more than a dozen legal claims reviewed for this article, dated June through December of 2025, people said immigration personnel from ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol assaulted

KGW 8 News | By Jamie Parfitt | January 30, 2026 The former owner of a Portland cidery won a civil lawsuit against four members of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer for a May 2019 attack on the establishment, the Oregon Justice Resource Center announced Friday evening. A three-day civil jury trial in the case began Tuesday, and ended with Cider Riot owner Abram Goldman-Armstrong being awarded over $760,000 in damages. The establishment on Northeast Couch Street in Portland’s Central

KGW 8 News | By Devon Haskins | January 29, 2026 Two security guards accused of assaulting a MAX train passenger are facing criminal charges, with arrest warrants issued Tuesday by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. Edward Walter Arndt III, 43, and Cruz Magnus Bost, 28, were charged with misdemeanors stemming from an Oct. 14, 2025, incident on a TriMet Blue Line train at the Gateway platform. Arndt faces charges of harassment and interfering with public transportation. Bost is