Date: 12/10/2012 10:34 AM
OR–3rd NewsMinute/279
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Department of Human Services is investigating what may be the largest case of welfare client fraud in Oregon history. The Oregonian reports investigators say Donte Marquis Muhammad and his wife Lakisha Emma Louise Muhammad collected housing, welfare, food stamp and other assistance from multiple addresses in the Portland area while living in a five-bedroom home in a gated community in Las Vegas.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police have recovered a dog that was stolen from outside a Portland restaurant and bar. Police say the Siberian Husky named Tuesday had been left at a Vancouver home by a family member. When the residents learned from media coverage that the dog was stolen they called police. Police reunited the dog with its owner yesterday and arrested the 47-year-old man who is suspected of taking it Friday afternoon.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Officers from the Portland police bomb squad were investigating a small blast scene yesterday outside Sitton Elementary School when a woman told them what happened. She said her 16-year-old son blew up his science experiment with fireworks. It left a small divot in the grass. Officers talked to the teen and determined there was no intent to damage property and no danger, so he was not charged.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – The murder case against an Oregon judge’s daughter has fallen apart. The Corvallis Gazette-Times says the pending dismissal of the case against 46-year-old Lorraine Sarich comes after prosecutors were unable to use the woman’s developmentally disabled son as a key witness. Sarich had been charged with killing William Mills in order to conceal the commission of identity theft.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
