Sheriff's Office News

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.

On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 5:59 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a serious crash on SW Farmington Road, west of SW 196th Avenue. When deputies arrived, they discovered a 2007 Chrysler Sebring had collided with a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado.

On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 12:42 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report that an unknown male accosted a teenage girl walking in the area of NW 185th Avenue and NW Rock Creek Blvd. in Rock Creek.

On August 22, 2019, at 7:55 p.m., deputies were dispatched to reports of a serious crash near the intersection of SW Blanton Street and SW 175th Avenue in Aloha.

On Thursday August 8, 2019 at 2:16 p.m., two deputies and a suspect were shot while responding to a theft of a long gun at a residence in the 54700 block of SW Scoggins Valley Rd in Gaston. The suspect, Dante James Halling, 56, was eventually released from a local hospital and was arrested.

On Thursday, August 15, 2019, at 9:56 a.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to an injury crash on Highway 26 westbound, just west of the NW Helvetia Road off-ramp.  When deputies arrived, they discovered five vehicles were involved. One of the vehicles was a commercial truck.