Sheriff's Office News

Deputies arrested a Hillsboro man after fleeing from a vehicle crash. A Beaverton K-9 team tracked and located the suspect.

On October 15, a concerned family member contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office regarding a relative who had not been seen for about a month. Detectives were assigned to investigate and are asking for the public’s help to locate her.

During a traffic stop, K-9 Taz alerted to the presence of narcotics inside the vehicle. A subsequent search resulted in the seizure of 27 pounds of methamphetamine and $6,700 in cash.

Between October 21 and October 25, deputies have responded to at least ten different incidents in which mailboxes were tampered with or broken into and mail was stolen from inside.

On Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, the Beaverton Police Department, Hillsboro Police Department, Washington County Sheriff’s Office, and Washington County Parole & Probation participated in the 16th annual National Family Violence Apprehension Detail.

Detectives from the Violent Crimes Unit arrested 40 year-old Geoffrey Germano, a teacher at Aloha High School, for downloading multiple files which were identified as child pornography.

The bicyclist involved in Tuesday night's traffic crash outside of Hillsboro was pronounced deceased at the hospital earlier this morning.

An alert community member located 76-year-old Linda Bell, the missing Aloha woman, near the intersection of Southwest 138th Avenue and Southwest Larch Place in Beaverton.

Deputies serving the City of Cornelius arrested a man after he illegally dumped a dilapidated mobile home at Echo Shaw Elementary school.

A former captain with Clark County Fire District 6 has been arraigned on a sexual abuse charge following an investigation into reports that he inappropriately touched a person with a training proctor during a training exercise near Sherwood.