Portland community searched for 'serial stalker' amid police inaction, delays: report

A manhunt was underway in Portland, Ore., on Saturday night after a suspect -- accused of ramming into a police officer with a stolen truck on Christmas Eve -- somehow escaped from a holding cell at the city’s Central Precinct, according to a report. The police officer hit by the truck on Dec.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is promising to "push back harder" against anarchists and Antifa radicals after another riot rocked the city on New Year's Eve, admitting that months-long efforts to stem the violence have failed. "My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists," Wheeler said during a Friday news conference, according to KOIN.

Five people linked to an armed robbery of a marijuana dispensary in Portland, Ore., on Friday have been taken into custody, according to reports. The arrests followed a high-speed chase on Interstate 84 that saw the fleeing vehicle reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, FOX 12 of Oregon reported.

Fireworks set off in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday night had little to do with New Year’s Eve celebrations – and more to do with continuing the unrest that has plagued the city for nearly a year, according to reports. Once again, city police declared a riot as a gathering estimated to be about 100 people targeted a federal courthouse, FOX 12 of Oregon reported.

About 40 people damaged businesses and property in downtown Portland, Ore., on Wednesday night, police said. The group assembled in the city’s Director Park before marching downtown around 7 p.m., police said in a news release Thursday.

About 40 people damaged businesses and property in downtown Portland Wednesday night, police said. The group assembled in the city’s Director Park before marching downtown around 7 p.m., police said in a press release Thursday.

Portland police officials are pleading with the public to help "break the cycle of violence" in the Oregon city, where shootings and murders have skyrocketed, according to authorities and a local report. At least 850 shootings have been reported in Portland as of Dec.

Fire investigators in Portland, Ore., had a suspect in custody and were seeking additional information Friday following a series of small suspected arson fires between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

An "unprecedented" number of police officers in Portland are leaving midcareer, opting to forego service time toward their retirement and take lower-paying jobs in smaller towns, citing poor working conditions in Oregon’s largest city, according to a recent report.

A registered sex offender’s appearance at the just-ended Portland "Red House on Mississippi" eviction blockade appears to have left some activists uncomfortable. The controversy surrounded Micah Rhodes, 27, who was a leader of the protest group Portland’s Resistance that rose to prominence after Donald Trump's election in 2016.

An activist group that organized an eviction blockade in Portland said Sunday the family who previously owned the so-called Red House, on Mississippi Ave., has reached an agreement with Mayor Ted Wheeler, and the heavily fortified barriers preventing access to the neighborhood would come down.

The Portland family at the center of the “Red House” controversy reportedly has a second home located only 2 miles away, according to property records. The house, located on Mississippi Avenue and owned by the Kinney family since the 1950s, has been the focus of protests after the family was evicted following a protracted legal battle over foreclosure.

The real estate developer at the heart of Portland's “Red House on Mississippi” controversy has discussed selling the home back after months of protests hit a tipping point over the past week, according to reports.  Roman Ozeruga, 33, bought the house, which is located on Mississippi Ave in North Portland, through a foreclosure sale in 2018 for $260,000.The attempt to evict the Kinney family, a Black and Indigenous family that has owned the house since the 1950s, set off protests from left-wing

Don’t be shocked that Antifa activists and other criminal agitators created an autonomous zone around a foreclosed home in North Portland. After months of placating and enabling violent radicals, local officials created this problem.

Professional and top-tier college athletes in Oregon are tested about 1,700 times a week combined, while some health care workers are struggling to just receive one, according to a report. The Portland Trail Blazers, Portland Timbers, Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Bears are tested multiple times per week.The Trail Blazers get tested daily, the top schools get tested six times per week and the Timbers four times.

An occupation protest in Portland meant to prevent the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family has entered into its third day Thursday, as individuals in black and wearing ski masks continued to fortify makeshift barriers blocking several city blocks around the so-called Red House on Mississippi Ave.

A group of protesters barricaded in Portland, Ore., in and around what’s known as the “Red House” seemed to be setting up for a long fight, a guest told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night.

Protesters in Portland have defiantly fortified their position at the “Red House on Mississippi” after Mayor Ted Wheeler on Tuesday authorized police to use "all lawful means" in ending the illegal occupation at the home.  By Wednesday, occupiers had stockpiled defensive gear and laid down booby traps aimed to keep officers out, including piles of rocks and homemade spike strips to puncture the tires of any vehicles that could breach the barricades, according to reports.  Protesters have rallied

The police chief in Portland, Ore.,  wants demonstrators attempting to block the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family to put down their weapons and leave the barricade so that the standoff with officers can end and the neighborhood can return to peace and order. “We are aware of the stockpile of weapons, and the presence of firearms,"  Chief Chuck Lovell said in a prepared statement. "We are aware of the threats to the community, to media, to police.

The Portland police chief said Wednesday that he remained "greatly concerned" about an area occupied by demonstrators attempting to block the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family, explaining that individuals have stockpiled weapons, assigned armed guards and spray-painted threats to kill police officers at the so-called Red House on Mississipi Avenue.  “We want a peaceful & safe resolution to the occupation of public space on N Mississippi Ave,” Chief Chuck Lovell said on Twitter Wednesday.