The driver of a car stopped Sunday for speeding on Interstate 5 north of Medford was arrested when nearly 4 pounds of methamphetamine were discovered in the car, Oregon State Police reported...
Erick Salvador Hernandez-Ruiz, 36, of Modesto...
... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also place a hold on him, troopers said.
UMATILLA — A Umatilla man faces charges of first-degree rape and assault constituting domestic violence.
Juan Garcia Torres, 50, of 1601 Third St., Umatilla, pleaded not guilty to the initial charges Monday. Umatilla County sheriff’s deputies arrested Torres after a woman Saturday came to the Hermiston Police Department and accused him of harming her. According to police records, the woman had a black eye.
Circuit Judge Dan Hill in Hermiston set Torres’ bail at $100,000. Torres has another hearing Friday, which would give the Umatilla County District Attorney’s Office time...
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities captured the world's most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary capo whose global organization is the leading supplier of cocaine to the United States.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, 56, looked pudgy, bowed and much like his wanted photos...
Guzman was arrested by the Mexican marines at 6:40 a.m. in a high-rise condominium fronting the Pacific in Mazatlan....
Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam described an operation that took place between Feb. 13 and...
A 45-year-old Gresham man, who stabbed a stranger in the abdomen because the stranger had tried to stop him from assaulting his wife, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison...
Haberman jumped in to protect the woman, Maria Rodriguez-Medrano, 40. Nunez-Valdivia stabbed Haberman, then fled. Rodriguez-Medrano also suffered a cut to her hand...
But after his prison term is up, he could face deportation. Immigration officials have placed a hold on him.
Pedro Nunez-Valdivia - ICE hold
...Sheriff’s deputies went out to assist a trucker whose semi-tractor trailer had rolled into a ditch along U.S. 97...
But tow-truck company employees soon alerted police. Hidden among the pallets of bell peppers were bundles of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, authorities allege, collectively worth well over $1 million. It's believed to be the largest drug seizure in Oregon history, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The driver, Salvador Martinez-Perez, 53, of Wenatchee, Wash., now faces three counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine...
David Olen Cross tracks and reports on illegal alien crimes in Oregon. He is on the Lars Larson show weekly - usually on Thursday afternoons about 2:45pm with the criminal alien of the week report.
David also tracks the prison and jail populations and prepares detailed reports for those interested in such statistics. Legislators, law enforcement officers and many others have thanked David for his continued efforts to track and report the often forgotten or overlooked crimes perpetrated by those in our country illegally.
It is important to remember that for nearly every...
...The 19-year-old woman convicted of felony hit and run in the Oct. 20 crash that killed two young stepsisters in Forest Grove will be held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., while she waits for a bond hearing in immigration court...
If she is released, a Washington County judge ordered her to return to the county and begin her sentence of three years of probation and 250 hours of community service...
At her sentencing hearing in Circuit Court last week, immigration attorney Courtney Carter said: “She is in grave danger of being deported.”
A Washington County judge sentenced Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, 19, to three years of probation in the Forest Grove fatal hit-and-run crash that killed two young stepsisters playing in a leaf pile...
Garcia-Cisneros learned of the crash minutes after it happened, but did not contact police to identify herself as the driver. Prosecutor Bracken McKey told Washington County jurors that the wreck itself was an accident, but Garcia-Cisneros' decision not to come forward was criminal...
Under state sentencing guidelines, Circuit Judge Rick Knapp had the option of imposing only...
A Portland police dog has been credited with sniffing out 31 pounds of meth worth nearly $1.5 million during a routine traffic stop late last week on Interstate 84, the Portland Police Bureau reported....
Two occupants of the car were released by police, who then arrested 36-year-old Nestor Catarino Zazueta-Valenzuela, 36.
PORTLAND, Ore. - The man who broke into a North Portland home and tried to sexually assault a six-year-old girl will spend just over a year in prison.
Pedro Santiago Machi-Menchu was sentenced by a Multnomah County judge Tuesday.
The mother of his victim is somewhat satisfied with the sentence but believes he should spend more time behind bars.
"I think he needs to do a little longer," said Amber Hurst. "It could have went further than what it did if someone hadn't woke up."
Hurst refers to the night her daughter almost became a victim. Machi-Menchu found his...
