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Salem Man Arrested in Major Drug Bust

Suspect was booked on an extensive list of drug and weapons charges.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Search warrants were served late last night in the 1300 block of Rafael Av N and the 3700 block of Portland Rd NE, resulting in one arrest and collection of a myriad of evidence.

This bust was the culmination of an approximately month long investigation by the Salem Police Department's Street Crimes Unit, assisted by the Keizer Police Department, and a narcotics detection K-9 and handler from the Oregon State Police.

Sly Salem Woman Arrested After Stealing Police Car

She manipulate her handcuffs and escaped from the rear seat of the patrol vehicle.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A Salem woman is in custody on multiple charges following an incident where she was able to manipulate her restraints and steal a Salem Police patrol vehicle.

The incident began at approximately 3:15 pm when Salem Police officers contacted 25-year old Rebecca J Payne of Salem. She was at a motel and had valid warrants for her arrest.

Marion County Deputies Seek Public`s Help in Locating Robbery Suspect

Tip line: 503-540-8079 or Text your tip to: TIPMCSO at 847411, you may remain anonymous.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Monday morning around 10:40, deputies were called to Santana Village Park in southeast Salem, after a victim reported being robbed at gun point.

The suspect is a white male adult, 6' tall, thin, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with red trim, black baseball hat and blue jeans.

FBI Exposes Multi-Million Dollar Romance Scams

Online Imposters Break Hearts and Bank Accounts

(HOUSTON, Texas) - They met online. He said he was a friend of a friend. The woman, in her 50s and struggling in her marriage, was happy to find someone to chat with. “He was saying all the right things,” she remembered.

That connection would end up costing the woman $2 million and an untold amount of heartache after the man she fell in love with—whom she never met in person—took her for every cent she had.

15 Men Arrested in Undercover Sex Trafficking Mission

Victims are forced to suffer through physical, sexual, and mental abuse.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - During the week of January 31 to February 3, 2016, the Portland Police Bureau's Sex Trafficking Unit conducted undercover missions to address online sex trafficking as part of the 13th National Johns Suppression Initiative.

Sex trafficking and prostitution are not victimless crimes. Victims of sex trafficking and prostitution are forced, coerced, and manipulated into this lifestyle against their will.

Two Brothers Sue Archdiocese of Portland for Childhood Sex Abuse

Two brothers allegedly abused by Father James Harris, one also by Father Maurice Grammond, filed a lawsuit.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - In two lawsuits filed today in U.S. District Court in Portland, two brothers, now adults, allege that their Catholic priest sexually abused them when they were children living in St. Paul, Oregon.

Father James Harris served as a Catholic priest in the St. Paul Parish in Silverton, Oregon in the mid to late 1960s when he abused the brothers and one of their childhood friends.

$1000+ Reward Offered in Merrilee Cooley Homicide

Cooley's car was found at the Miramonte Lodge Apartments on SE McLoughlin.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers of Oregon, is asking for the public's help to solve the homicide of Merrilee Cooley.

68-year-old Merrilee Bonnie Cooley of Johnson City was last seen by her family on December 26, 2016. Two days later she was reported missing to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

14 People Taken Into Custody on Wednesday Afternoon in Portland Protests

All of the adults were lodged at the Multnomah County Jail

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Several people were blocking road traffic and transit lines in Downtown Portland, along the Steel Bridge, in the Rose Quarter, and on the Lower East Side yesterday, according to reports to the police.

In total, 14 people were taken into custody as a result of their behavior throughout the afternoon and evening -- 12 adults and two juveniles.

Man Survives Throat Slashing Outside Burger King

The suspect is in custody.

(McMINNVILLE, Ore.) - A Burger King employee was stabbed outside the restaurant in north McMinnville this evening. The incident began across the highway in the WalMart parking lot, at the coffee stand, and appears to be random.

“The suspect was lurking around where I work and trying to come in our door,” wrote Jordan Schnepp on the YamCo facebook page. He works at the coffee stand.

Will President Obama Free Leonard Peltier?

President Obama Should Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency “in best interest of justice”

(SALEM, Ore.) - Native American activist Leonard Peltier was convicted in 1977 for the deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Wrongfully convicted, by most accounts.

41 years is a very long time, more than a lifetime for some. That is how long Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned. Long enough.