Here’s your disturbing news story to kick off the week, pulled together from information the police released over the weekend. Paul Evans Winklebleck Last Thursday, March 4, two women left the Snoop Dogg show at the Roseland at about 11:30 pm. A man came up to them saying he was a “spotter” for the Portland […]
Crime
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Where is Tyler Brady?
If you’ve seen Tyler or his bike, call 911. Twenty-two-year-old Portlander Tyler Brady has now been missing for 14 days. Brady is a regular Portland guy: he loves bikes, beer and punk shows. He was moving into a house on SE Woodstock called the Dustbin and was last seen riding his black fixed-gear bike with […]
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Robbery, Assault Suspected in Kipp Crawford’s Death
Victim Kipp Crawford Kipp Crawford was a well-liked 32-year-old local musician and cyclist whose death this past November was a terrible shock to friends and family. Crawford was laying with his bike in the middle of N Willamette Blvd at 2:30 AM on the morning of November 4th, when he was run over and killed […]
Posted inMovies & TV
California Judge Rules That Polanski Must Return to U.S. for Sentencing
From Bloomberg News: Film director Roman Polanski will have to return to California to be sentenced, more than 32 years after he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, a judge said. California Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, at a hearing today in Los Angeles, denied Polanski’s request to be sentenced in absentia. […]
Posted inPortland
Pot Shots
Blog reader Lisa Mercer writes: Hey Mercury guys, Several friends told me about a website called thepotshot.com that makes fun of Portland people that get arrested. They love it, but I think it’s awful. Not even criminals deserve to be treated the way they treat them. I tried contacting the address that was given on […]
Posted inSex
State Pushes Sex Trafficking Sticker for Bars
Human trafficking hotline stickers in Oregon bars could look like this one from the Polaris project Clackamas and Portland state representatives Brent Barton and Jefferson Smith are spearheading a bill in the Oregon legislature this month that aims to get all Oregon bars and liquor stores to post a small sticker raising awareness about human […]
Posted inPolitics
Sen. Wyden Pitches Bill to “Beat the Pimps”
Defenders USA outside Saturday’s Northwest Conference Against Trafficking As I rolled my bike toward the parking lot of the Jantzen Beach Red Lion Inn last Saturday, heading to the Northwest Conference Against Human Trafficking, a man waving an anti-prostitution sign on the corner called out to me, “God bless you! We are going to win […]
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“We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of this Problem.”
Those refreshing words come from Commander Mike Crebs, of Portland’s East Police Precinct, in reference to the prostitution that plagues Southeast neighborhoods. Last fall, 1,500 Portlanders signed a petition demanding the city reinstate the Prostitution Free Zone, an anti-prostitution enforcement policy that the city let expire after the ACLU complained it was unconstitutional and led […]
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Seattle Police Describe the Clemmons Shooting
The Seattle police describe the shooting of Maurice Clemmons (suspected of killing four cops in Lakewood) on their blog: At approximately 2:43 a.m. today, a uniformed patrol officer came upon a suspicious vehicle in the 4400 block of South Kenyon Street. The vehicle, an Acura Integra, was unoccupied. The engine was running and the hood […]
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Seattle Manhunt Spirals Into Near Insanity
People are going INSANE right now in Seattle where a massive manhunt is going down for Maurice Clemmons, the suspected shooter of four Lakewood cops, who is apparently wounded and on the run in the city. Citizens are panicking about bloody pieces of gauze found on the street, “scruffy black people” are being pulled over […]
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Salem Inmates Can No Longer Receive Letters
… only postcards. KATU has an upsetting little report about a new cost-cutting policy at Marion County jail that will ban letters not relating to legal matters from coming into the jail, making friends and families of inmates write only postcards instead. Now I understand that times are tough and jail officials estimate the change […]
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I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!! AN EXCLUSIVE DAILY BUGLE EDITORIAL BY J. JONAH JAMESON
WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!?! I write and I write and I write and NONE OF YOU EVER LISTEN! From the Daily Bugle‘s Texas bureau comes the TOTALLY UNSURPRISING news that SPIDER-MAN and his partner-in-crime, SPIDER-WOMAN, have moved on from petty harassment and larceny and are now FEARLESSLY ROBBING BANKS! Bank of America employees told […]