Oregon State Police say a California man stole an ambulance from a crash scene on Interstate 5 Friday night and fled from police before eventually being arrested. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, state troopers and medics responded to a single-vehicle crash on the freeway just north of Woodburn, police wrote in[Read More…]

Update 12/29 9 a.m.: The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a Tuesday news release that the body of a dead pedestrian found in the car was a 16-year-old. The announcement came as Armando Rodarte Jr. was arraigned on charges of first-degree manslaughter, failure to perform duties of a driver[Read More…]

The state Department of Human Services (Courtesy/State of Oregon)  A Marion County grand jury on Monday indicted a state Department of Human Services employee on charges that he kidnapped and raped a resident of a unit that serves people with developmental disabilities. Zakary E. Glover, 28, of Salem, was indicted[Read More…]

(Courtesy/Marion County Sheriff’s Office) Marion County deputies investigating a burglary Sunday morning seized over 2,800 pounds of marijuana from what they described as an illegal marijuana operation just north of Salem. Deputies were called just after 6 a.m. Sunday to a property on Labish Garden Road Northeast near Highway 99[Read More…]

(Courtesy of Oregon State Police) State police on Tuesday arrested two people and seized over 2,000 plants, 196 pounds of packaged marijuana and cash from what police described as an illegal marijuana grow operation near Jefferson. Oregon State Police’s NW Region Marijuana Team and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office served[Read More…]

Tonna Davis. (Crime Stoppers of Oregon) An Astoria man was charged Tuesday with murder, accused of killing a woman in March who was previously reported as missing in Salem. The Salem Police Department on Saturday arrested Gustavo Ochoa-Valadez, 35, and booked him into the Marion County Jail Sunday, jail records[Read More…]