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Oregon Motorcyclist Killed After Colliding With Bear

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A bear, like this one, was also killed in the crash

WARM SPRINGS, Oregon — He met a grizzly fate.

An unlucky motorcyclist was killed after hitting a bear on an Oregon highway and then being thrown into the path  of an oncoming car, police said.

Authorities say 39-year-old Rhett Larsen was driving along Highway 26 in Warm Springs Saturday night, when he struck and killed a large bear that was in the roadway.

Larsen, a firefighter in Bend, Oregon, was thrown from his bike and into the opposite lane where he was hit by an oncoming SUV that was pulling a utility trailer.

The SUV, driven by 57-year-old Margaret Sweo, went off the road and rolled onto its side, cops said.

Larsen was declared dead at the scene, and Sweo was transported by a helicopter to a nearby hospital

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15-Year-Old Girl Shoots 56-Year-Old Man She Met on Sugar Daddy Site

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Raelyn Domingo, 15, shot her sugar daddy

BEAVERTON, Oregon — She was perhaps a little too hot to trot.

A 15-year-old girl has been charged with shooting an Oregon man in the stomach after meeting him on a sugar daddy website, cops said.

Raelyn Domingo, had come to 56-year-old Thomas Licata’s home last week after they connected on the “Seeking Arrangement” website that connects young women with men willing to hand over cash and gifts in exchange for companionship.

But after getting high with Licata, cops say she went to use the bathroom and then came out and shot him in the stomach.

“From what we know, she shot him unprovoked,” Deputy Jeff Talbot, a Washington County Sheriff’s office spokesman told the Oregonian newspaper.

Domingo, who attended Heritage High School in Vancouver, had advertised on the site under the profile name “asianperssuasion.”

The two meet last week Friday and were hanging out in Licata’s music room, where he paid her $260 and gave her seltzer to drink, he told cops. The two them smoked cannabis out of a vape pen.

After Domingo shot Licata in the stomach, she demanded more cash, but he didn’t have any, so she fled. He was then rushed to an area hospital.

Cops say that hours later, Domingo and three masked men robbed two people at gunpoint in their home. Investigators finally caught up with her on Wednesday in Washington state, and placed her under arrest.

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Oregon Man Angered by Noisy Kids Opens Fire on Family With AK-47

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Franklin Tomes apparently doesn’t like kids

NEWPORT, Oregon — A thin-skinned man irritated by noisy kids upstairs, blew his top and opened fire at his neighbors with an AK-47, wounding two men, cops said.

Franklin Tomes, 59, is accused of attempted murder in the shootings, which struck the two men, but also sprayed bullets into the apartment where the kids live.

According to the Newport police, Tomes was angry about the noise 20-year-old Jose Gaeta’s kids were making, and got into argument with the father in the apartment parking lot.

Tomes then grabbed the assault rifle from his car, and pointed the gun at Gaeta and his pal, Tristan Smith. Tomes opened fire as the two men ran away, police said.

Gaeta was hit in both legs and on one of his feet, and Smith was struck in the shoulder. Both men were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive, police said

After the shooting, Tomes barricaded himself in his apartment and remained there until he eventually surrendered about five hours later, police said.

The gun was found inside his apartment.

Tomes was also charged with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

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Oregon Thief Nabbed With More than $50,000 Worth of Stolen Lego

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Cops say they found a stunning amount of stolen Lego in Raji Afife Azar’d home

PORTLAND, Oregon — That’s a lot of Lego.

An Oregon man has been charged with running a theft operation that netted more than $50,000 worth of Lego and other items from Portland-area stores.

Portland police say Raji Afife Azar, 40, would enlist drug addicts to shoplift toys from shops like Fred Meyer. He would pay them a fraction of the retail cost and then sell the items for substantially more on sites like Craigslist and eBay.

Investigators began tracking Azar earlier this year when store detectives from Fred Meyer learned that he was running a fencing operation dealing in stolen merchandise.

Undercover Portland police detectives eventually made contact with Azar to purportedly sell him stolen goods, and then busted him on April 26 after making the exchange.

Raji Afife Azar

When they executed a search warrant on his family’s home,  they discovered a huge stash of stolen Lego and other merchandise. Cops estimated the value of the goods stolen from Fred Meyer alone at $50,000.

Investigators warn that items sold online as “new” or in unopened packages with prices that seem too good to be true, might be stolen.

 

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Construction Worker Charged With Attempted Murder in Brutal Nail Gun Attack

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Jesus Ascencio Molina allegedly snapped and let his nail gun do the talking in a fight with a coworker

HAPPY VALLEY, Oregon — An out-of-control construction worker has been charged with attempted murder in a vicious nail gun attack that left a coworker riddled with wounds, police said.

Witnesses say Jesus Ascencio Molina, 24, “just snapped” and turned the pneumatic framing nail gun on his colleague on Friday as they were building a house in Oregon.

The victim was shot several times in the shoulder, back and neck and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office said.

Another worker at the house told KGW-TV that they had just been wrapping up at the house and were preparing to move to another site, when Molina picked up the nail gun and started shooting.

The witness said the victim picked up a power saw and turned it on in an effort to defend himself, but it was too late.

Molina ran into the woods after the attack but was arrested a day later. He has been charged with attempted murder and was held on $250,000 bond.

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Daycare Operator Who Drugged Kids and Went to Tanning Salon Pleads Guilty

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January Neatherlin felt her tanning needed more attention than the kids she was watching at a day care

BEND, Oregon — A woman who drugged and abandoned kids at an illegal daycare center she ran so she could go to a tanning salon, has pleaded guilty.

January Neatherlin, 32, was busted last March when cops found seven children under the age of 5, drugged with melatonin and alone at her Little Giggles Daycare in Bend, Oregon while she had run off to a tanning salon.

She pleaded guilty to 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and one count of third-degree assault, and could face up to 35 years in prison when she is sentenced in March, the Bend Bulletin reported.

Cops discovered the drowsy kids — the youngest being 6-months-old —  in an upstairs bedroom with no adults to be found. One of the infants was sleeping on a padded “toy couch” and had vomited on himself.

Prosecutors say Neatherlin had on previous occasions left the kids to go work out at a gym.

Neatherlin has been in jail for almost a year since her arrest and while in custody, allegedly tried to convince three inmates to confess to her crimes, offering one $50,000, the Bulletin reported.

She has several prior felony identity-theft convictions under the names January Livsey and January Brooks.

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Christian School Teacher Charged With Student Sex After Getting Caught by Hubby

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Literature teacher Andrea Baber liked them young

COTTAGE GROVE, Oregon — A teacher at a Christian school has been arrested for having carrying on a long-running affair with a student after getting caught in bed by her husband, police said.

Andrea Baber, 29, was arrested after the boy’s father called authorities when he received an anonymous email with pictures of his son in bed with his teacher, the Register-Guard reported.

Investigators interviewed the 17-year-old boy, who told them that he and Baber had been involved in a sexual relationship dating back to 2016 when he was 15-years-old.

He said it began as simple flirting and then kissing before graduating to full-blown sex once or twice a week at her home. He said she also provided him with alcohol and marijuana on some occasions.

The investigation revealed that Baber’s husband had recently made a report to child protective services after finding his wife and the boy in bed together partially clothed. He also found that she had sent topless photos of herself to the teen.

She has been charged with third-­degree rape, third-degree sodomy, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, first-­degree online sexual corruption of a minor and unlawful delivery of mari­juana to a person under 18 years of age.

Baber taught language and literature at the Logos Christian Academy where she met the boy. She no longer works there, officials said. She graduated from Northwest Christian University in 2014.

“Andrea has always felt called to work with youth and is very excited that God opened the door for her to be part of the Logos team,” her biography on the school website read.

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Portland Slasher Says Taylor Swift Made Him Do It

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PORTLAND, Oregon — Look what you made me do.

An unhinged man who allegedly tried to stab a passerby with a pair of scissors told cops he did it because singer Taylor Swift “told me to kill him,” police said.

Witnesses told cops  that Brent Shannon Thicksten, 43, was menacing people walking down the street in Downtown Portland and then pulled out the scissors and began chasing one man, KATU-TV reported.

The man suffered a cut to his lower back but was treated at the scene.

When officers detained Thicksten, he told them that his wife — “Shake it off” singer Taylor Swift — “told me to kill him.”

When they asked him where his wife was, Thicksten replied “we are one,” the officers said. He  then stopped answering questions, stating he had “top secret clearance.”

Brent Thicksten

Thicksten was arrested on assault charges, unlawful use of a weapon, trespassing, and menacing. He also violated parole for a third-degree robbery charge he pleaded guilty to this summer.

In 2014, he was arrested for stealing two forklifts.

 

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Woman Sentenced to Two Years in Lethal Jailhouse Kiss

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PORTLAND, Oregon — It was the kiss of death.

An Oregon woman whose inmate boyfriend died after bags of meth she passed him during a jailhouse kiss burst in his stomach, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a drug conspiracy charge.

Melissa Ann Blair, 46, was visiting her boyfriend, Anthony Powell, in the Oregon State Penitentiary last year when they shared a long kiss during which she passed seven balloons filled with methamphetamine into his mouth.

Two of the balloons later ruptured in his stomach and he died soon after of methamphetamine toxicity, prosecutors say.

The 41-year-old Powell had been serving a life sentence for the stabbing death of his mother-in-law.

Blair’s attorney had argued that his client had been coerced by Powell into participating in smuggling drugs into the prison.

“It was a very Svengali-type situation where he had total control over her life,” John Ransom said, according to The Associated Press. “She had to do whatever he said.”

Four others have pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges in the case and are awaiting sentencing.

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Teen Charged With Gunning Down Three Members of Foster Family in Oregon

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Neighbors say Kevin Adams, 16, was prone to fits of rage

ROSEBURG, Oregon — A 16-year-old boy has been charged with brutally gunning down his foster mother and two sisters in a fit of rage, police said.

Kevin Adams has been charged with three counts of aggravated murder in the shooting Tuesday that left his foster mother, foster sister and biological sister dead in their home in Roseburg, Oregon. He is currently being held in a juvenile detention center.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s office said the boy’s foster father, Robert Adams, came home that evening to find Kevin pacing around outside the house. The teen then told his father not to go inside and to call police, cops said.

The elder Adams then went in and found the bodies of his wife, Donya Adams, 55, daughter, Amory Adams, 26, and foster daughter Payshience “Tia” Adams, age 10, dead of gunshot wounds.

Police say the boy admitted to shooting each of the victims multiple times but didn’t discuss a motive.

Neighbors told KATU-TV that Kevin suffered from rage issues.

“[Kevin] would have outbursts if he didn’t’ get his way. He would throw things, get violent,” said Brenda Sellers-Hilger. “He would have so many outbursts that I couldn’t have him coming over anymore; it was too much to handle.”

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