Category Public Safety
Salem police arrest 5 at protest against immigration enforcement
Salem police said what started as a peaceful protest Saturday against national immigration enforcement resulted in participants driving dangerously and throwing bottles and cans at police cars at the intersection of Northeast Lancaster Drive and Northeast Market Street.
Massive police search in Salem frees abducted child after hours-long ordeal
Salem police using drones, police dogs and a SWAT team on Saturday, Feb. 1, found a gunman with a child he had abducted hiding in a northeast Salem neighborhood. The child, who was unharmed, had been kidnapped with the mother, police said.
“Proof is evident” that Salem man murdered longtime girlfriend, judge says
Tyler Holman appeared in court on Friday to face charges alleging he shot and killed his longtime girlfriend, Ashley Gandolfi, who he was previously charged with assaulting. Gandolfi’s family urged a state judge to keep him in jail, fearing his “military training” and risk to their child.
COLUMN: Building a first-aid kit
Mark Wardell, the leader of West Salem’s Community Emergency Response Team, explains how to stock a first-aid kit to prepare for emergencies.
Salem man accused of fatally shooting woman, crashing car with her body inside
Deputies responding to a rollover crash in rural Independence found Ashley Gandolfi, 35, dead at the scene. The driver, Tyler Holman, 39, is now accused of shooting and killing Gandolfi, his former romantic partner, before driving with her body in the car.
Salem police chief promises his officers won’t cooperate with immigration enforcement
Salem Police Chief Trevor Womack issued a bilingual statement Thursday seeking to ease any “anxiety or confusion” that his officers would take part in immigration enforcement, which is expanding rapidly under the Trump administration.
Rural rampage: Outdoorsman holds police at bay, firing hundreds of rounds in eastern Oregon community
AROUND OREGON: For hours, an experienced marksman terrified Owyhee Junction for hours, firing hundreds of rounds. The shooting prompted one of the largest police responses in eastern Oregon in recent history.
Truck driver who caused crash killing 7 Marion County farmworkers wasn’t impaired, lawyer argues
Tuesday marked the start of the criminal trial of truck driver Lincoln Smith, who in May 2023 struck and killed seven farmworkers on Interstate 5 in one of the deadliest crashes to ever occur in Marion County.
Salem reaches $130,000 settlement in lawsuit over teen’s death in 2020 crash
Salem officials are not admitting fault but agreed to settle a 2022 lawsuit alleging that overgrown vegetation and a lack of traffic signs resulted in a collision in south Salem that killed Sara Schumann, 17.