This extremely confusing report just in from the Portland Police Bureau. Apparently a couple hours a go, police responded to a report that around NW 19th and Couch, a man was walking around “stabbing things with a knife.” (What sort of things? WHO KNOWS? Just “things”!) So while looking for Mr. Stabbing Things, police then […]
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Marijuana Still Illegal in Portland
A friendly reminder that pot possession remains criminal, despite what you hear on the street. And smell. Portland Police busted three SE grow houses this afternoon, seizing 2,000 plants with over $2 million street value. Here’s what that looks like: Along with the plants, police took subsequent gardening supplies. The two shiesty growers, now on […]
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Crimesville: Guy Stabbed, Doesn’t Realize It (Like a BOSS!)
According to a just released bulletin from the Portland Police Bureau, early this morning a fight erupted outside downtown strip joint Spyce Gentleman’s Club (SHOCK). When officers arrived at the scene, no one there could or would supply any information about the assailants—then this happened. At 3:18 a.m., Portland Police officers assigned to East Precinct […]
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Crimesville: Man Uses Little Girl as Human Shield
I love the summers in Portland because the criminals get nuttier as the temperature rises! Following the man who took a boy hostage with a rock, here’s the sad/weird story of a man who police say used his daughter as a human shield!Officers responded to a call of an altercation in Mt. Tabor Park on […]
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12-Year-Old Boy Taken Hostage by Guy with a Rock
We just received a release from the Portland Police Bureau documenting an extremely weird, and frightening story in which an 11-year-old boy [PPB update now says the boy was 12, I’ll correct it below] was taken hostage by a clearly deranged person with a rock. BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN THE START OF IT. According to […]
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Comic Justice! (The Wife Beater Edition)
Apparently this was how wife beaters were dealt with back in the 1940s. Umm. OUCH. And they lived happily ever after!via
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Blumenauer: FBI Probe of News Corp. Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Portland’s own Earl Blumenauer is adding his voice to the growing congressional furor over the phone-hacking shenanigans of News Corp., parent company of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Hours after various news outlets reported the FBI is looking into only a subset of those allegations—that so-called journalists from Britain’s News of the World, […]
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Crime is Dropping! Let’s Spend Another $32 Million to Put 1,000 More Oregonians in Jail
Here is a chart the state government put together this year. Can you understand what it says? It’s simple, but surprising: From 1995 to 2000, our state’s incarceration rate jumped 50 percent. And property crime dropped by 20 percent. But in recent years, from 2005-2009, the rate of incarceration basically flatlined and property crime dropped […]
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Overheard in a Hotel Room in Midtown Manhattan
“That Jamaican singer who sings ‘murder music’ songs about killing gay men was sentenced to 10 years in prison.” “Buju Banton?” “Yeah.” “It gets better.”
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The Most Disappointing PPB Bulletin of the Day
The following juicy sounding Portland Police Bureau bulletin just came in, and totally got my hopes up…before turning into a crashing disappointment. Check it out: The Portland Police Bureau, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, is asking for the public’s help in identifying a bank robbery suspect nicknamed “The Civil War Bandit.” OOH!! So what could […]
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Kyron vs. Kyeron
The Skanner Kyeron Fair Today, the front page of the Oregonian (and pretty much every news agency in town) was full of details about the Kyron Horman search force disbanding after a media-frenzied year spent searching for the kid who went missing from SW Portland. But across town, major news broke in the case of […]
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Police Arrest Suspect in Anti-Arab Assault
Suspect Rickey Watson: Not a happy puppy. The news of this week is the anti-gay assault that took place on the Hawthorne Bridge on Sunday, but Portland police have just announced they’ve made an arrest in another bias crime that occurred in December. Twenty eight-year-old Rickey Watson was wanted on charges stemming from an altercation […]