News A Multnomah County Sheriff's deputy crashed a prisoner transport vehicle into a pillar and gate at the Multnomah County Detention Center, WW has learned. Twenty two prisoners were inside, and five were sent to the hospital for evaluation, Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Steve Alexander says. No one suffered serious injury in the crash. The deputy, who's name is not being released at this time, is still on ...   More

News Multnomah County Undersheriff Tim Moore's trip to El Paso, Texas, to a "border school and tour" hosted by an anti-immigration group cost local taxpayers $1,273.37. As WW first reported yesterday, Moore spent Sept. 21 and 22 at a training hosted by the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR). The sheriff's office says the trip was a training session about Mexican drug cartels, and today ...   More

News A top Multnomah County Sheriff's Office official was among 60 from across the country to attend a "border school and tour" hosted by an anti-immigration group labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group."A photo of Multnomah County Undersheriff Tim Moore attending the National Sheriffs Border School and Tour in El Paso, Texas, was posted on the Facebook page of the Oregonians for Immigration ...   More

News Is the Portland Business Alliance keen to compete with Busted! magazine or PDX Mugshots?It looks like it, judging from the latest edition of the PBA Downtown Retail Council's newsletter, which contains a feature that hasn't appeared in other recent installments: Top downtown shoplifters for June 2012.Nine mugs make the cut, but there's no explanation of why. Check it out here (pdf).A quick search of ...   More

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News Multnomah County prosecutors announced today they will not pursue criminal charges against Sheriff's Chief Deputy Tim Moore over allegations he failed to complete the field training for his state police certification. A memo (PDF) from the DA's office says Moore did not physically demonstrate some of the knowledge areas as required, but there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. The memo ...   More

News Shortly after Lt. Dan Staton was sworn in as interim sheriff this morning, a fourth candidate filed to run for sheriff in the May 2010 primary. Corrections Sgt. Muhammad Ra'oof, who made an unsuccessful run against outgoing Sheriff Bob Skipper last year to complete former Sheriff Bernie Giusto's term, filed his paperwork (PDF) today with the county elections office. Ra'oof becomes the fourth ...   More

News Interim Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton, who's already picked up a significant union endorsement from the corrections deputies in his election run, has almost completed the puzzle of putting together all the organized labor support that matters in the race. Staton's campaign announced today he's been endorsed by AFSCME Local 88, which represents about 2,800 county employees including the ...   More

News A glance through the donor list for Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton's election campaign prompted us this week to revisit a story WW broke last year. Staton's finance reports show he received a $250 donation Feb. 6 from Tim Moore, chief deputy for law enforcement at the sheriff's office. Moore made the news last year when we wrote about an alleged cover-up under former Sheriff Bob Skipper ...   More

News In the past week, volunteers in Dan Staton's campaign to retain his job as Multnomah County sheriff have violated both a rule governing the conduct of county employees, and a city ordinance. The first incident violating the employee conduct rule happened on April 24. That's when Randy Rowlette, a senior systems administrator at the sheriff's office and a steward for AFSCME Local 88, sent a message ...   More