Sheriff's Office News

On September 19, 2019, a Washington County grand jury indicted Benito Juarez-Hernandez for six crimes related to two additional victims. The new charges are four counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and two counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. His Washington County bail is set at $4.25 million.

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at approximately 9:31 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash along NW Jackson School Road near the City of North Plains.

On Monday, September 23, 2019, at approximately 1:11 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call where a woman called to report she had shot her husband. Sheriff’s deputies quickly arrived at the 20-acre farm property in the 16800 block of NW Germantown Road. This is in the Bethany area of unincorporated Washington County.

On Thursday, September 19, 2019, at approximately 3:15 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a driver for DUII.  It was reported the driver travelled westbound down NW Sunset Highway, from SW Market Street in Portland to NW Murray Boulevard in Beaverton in the eastbound lanes.

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, at approximately 8:00 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to several 9-1-1 calls about a man with a gun in the area of NW Old Quarry Road and NW 119th Avenue in unincorporated Washington County, north of Beaverton. 

On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at approximately 6:00 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of suspicious circumstances involving a man with a dog and two young girls.  A concerned mother told deputies that the man stopped his car in front of two children walking home in the 8800 block of NW Ash Street in an unincorporated part of Washington County near Portland.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2019, at approximately 7:05 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies serving the City of Banks were dispatched to reports of a man trying to force a woman inside a vehicle near the intersection of NW Highway 47 & NW Wilson River Highway.

On Friday, July 12th, 2019, at 1056 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to an injury crash near the intersection of SW Farmington Road and SW 153rd Avenue. When deputies arrived, they located a serious crash between a 2012 Chrysler 300 and a 2013 Ford Fusion.

Since 2018, detectives with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit have been investigating allegations that a drivers education instructor at Portland Community College’s (PCC) Rock Creek campus was sexually abusing his students.

During our joint Labor Day DUII mission (August 30-31), 21 people were arrested through the combined efforts of seven metro-area agencies.