Portland police recently arrested nine people and recovered stolen merchandise during two retail theft missions in the Cascade Station Shopping Center near the Portland International Airport.
A woman is facing charges after the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said she shoved a child onto MAX train tracks in Portland on Thursday, injuring the child and interfering
Indiana man charged with attempted murder of Portland police
Malik Muhammed is accused of repeatedly trying to kill officers during protests last summer.
An Indiana man was indicted on allegations that he attempted to murder two police officers during separate riots in Portland last year by using explosive devices.
Malik Muhammed, 24, was arrested on multiple warrants Friday, April 2, and remains in an Indianapolis jail. He will be extradited to Oregon, where he will face multiple felonies as part of a 28-count indictment, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney s Office.
According to the indictment, prosecutors claim Muhammed came to Portland in September 2020 for the specific purpose of engaging in multiple criminal acts. On Sept. 5, he engaged in tumultuous and violent conduct near the Portland Police Bureau s East Precinct that resulted in a grave risk of causing public alarm, the indictment said.
An armed man upset about the results of the 2020 presidential election fired five shots into the side of Portland’s federal courthouse on Friday, according to court documents filed in federal court Sunday.
The U.S. Attorney s Office for Oregon has charged 39-year old Cody Melby after he allegedly fired five shots from a handgun at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland.
Credit U.S. Attorney s Office for Oregon
Cody Levi Melby, 39, reportedly climbed over the temporary security fence erected this summer to keep racial justice protesters outside the federal courthouse before he opened fire on the building, the documents state. No one was injured in the attack.