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Charges against ticket-less MAX rider dropped

The mother of a woman involved in a 2008 altercation with a Portland police officer at a Gresham MAX station after she failed to show a ticket says charges against her daughter have been dropped.

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Gresham students score honors at science fair

The Gresham Science Expo Regional Fair was held March 13 when more than 115 projects and more than 180 competitors from Jesuit, Bend Science Station, John Day, Vancouver, Catlin Gable, Tualatin, Oregon Muslim Academy, and 40 students from Gresham High School competed.

Winners from Gresham High, and qualifiers for the April 2 state competition were:

  • First Place for Environmental Management - Jasmin Kennard
  • First Place for Plant Sciences - Haley Schaeffer
  • Second Place for Environmental Analysis - Shannon Ernst
  • Third Place for Animal Science - Jordan Ellis, Kaela Meixner, and Kaylee Barcroft

Honorable mention selections were: 

Tori Sturgill, Brenna Newman, Bianka Salazar, Danika Hazard, Kylee Pearson, Lauren Laakso, Claire Palmiter, Pearly Walton and Darya Zabrodchenko.

Special awards:

  • Outstanding Geoscience Project - Shannon Ernst
  • Outstanding Use of the International System of Units - Jasmin Kennard
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Friends, family to host memorial concert for Vickie Schulmerich

Friends and family of Vickie Schulmerich, who was shot in Gresham Feb. 12 by Clackamas County Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Grahn, will host a benefit concert for the Schulmerich family.

The event will take place at Pub 181 (18415 SE Division in Gresham) from 1:30-10:30 p.m. Several bands will play and there will be a raffle and silent auction at the event.

Schulmerich was in the M&M Tavern in Gresham when Grahn walked into the bar and shot and killed his estranged wife Charlotte, her friend Katy Hoffmeister and critically injured Schulmerich before taking his own life.

Schulmerich was taken to Oregon Health Sciences University, but was taken off life support days later.

Read an earlier story about Schulmerich.

Masterminds behind shoplifting ring: Centennial High schoolers

GRESHAM, Ore. - Police have busted a shoplifting ring of 11 young men with ties to Centennial High School.

The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of designer jeans from Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue stores. According to police, they didn't keep the stolen goods for themselves, but actually sold them for a profit.

Investigators say the men dubbed themselves, "The Mini Boys."

All 11 of the accused were arraigned on charges of first-degree theft and organized retail theft, a felony. Conviction on retail theft can carry a maximum 10-year prison term.

All five charged as adults pleaded not guilty.

Note: the mug shots above are of the adult accused, while the other six are minors.

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Red Cross helping out following house fire

Volunteers with the American Red Cross - Oregon Trail Chapter are helping three adults after a fire broke out in the 5100 block of Southeast Welch Road. The residents will receive assistance with lodging, food and clothes, as needed.

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Four kids arrested in home invasion shooting

GRESHAM, Ore. - Four young suspects have been arrested and accused for a violent break-in last month that involved firing shotgun blasts through a family’s walls.

The youngest suspect is just 11 years old and the gunman is 15.

Jeremy Knight came face to face with the gunman Friday, Feb. 26.

“And then I’m looking down a barrel,” he said demonstrating.

The suspect blasted through Knight’s kitchen wall, cabinets, and shattered part of the stove top.

The shooting sent Jeremy, his wife and their teenage daughter running for cover.

“I thought he was going to come in and kill us,” Knight said. “Smashed in the window and had no regard – just straight up fired.”

Now the family is working toward repairing the damage done by patching and painting the holes left from the shooting but covering up the fear after the violent home invasion will be more difficult.

“My wife and daughter, they aren’t sleeping,” Knight said.

While the family said it is mind-boggling the burglars were so young, those in the Rockwood neighborhood who knew the kids said it’s not all that surprising.

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Victim's wife's plea: No release for Player's Club shooting suspect

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Multnomah County judge has refused to release the man accused of shooting up a poker club in Gresham.

The judge, Angel Lopez, also refused to lower the $2.25 million bail set for Carroll Mayfield.

The 66-year-old Mayfield is accused of walking into the Gresham Player's Club in January and shooting at the seven people inside. Police said he did not know any of the poker players inside.

However, the club was an unwelcome addition to some in Gresham's Historic Downtown Business Association who feared it would bring with it criminal activity.

What it did bring on Monday afternoon was a rally in front of Multnomah County courthouse in support of those victims, hoping to keep Mayfield behind bars. Mayfield's release hearing was scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday. At 1 p.m. we're told a 15-person protest gathered in front of the Multnomah County courthouse, expressing concern that Mayfield could get out on bail or a technicality.

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Suspect in Oxycontin theft arrested

TROUTDALE, Ore. - A 21-year-old Gresham man is under arrest in connection with an armed robbery at a pharmacy in Troutdale.

Federico Sanchez Jr. was arrested at his home on Sunday and is now being lodged at the Multnomah County Detention Center on robbery charges.

Investigators believe Sanchez is the man who walked into the Troutdale Walgreens on Stark Street late last month and demanded Oxycontin.

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Police find 'items of interest' in 2008 double-homicide case

File photo of the blue-tarped Gresham townhouse where police found the decomposing bodies of a man and a woman in 2008.

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Boeing may be hiring soon

GRESHAM, Ore. - Boeing hopes to expand its operations in Gresham, a move that could mean around 150 new jobs.

The commercial airplane maker has applied for a permit to replace an old chemical processing plant with a state-of-the-art facility.

The council will vote on the matter next month.

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