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Clackamas County announces plan to become the national model in aiding domestic and sexual violence victims
OREGON CITY, Or. -- October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, traditionally a time when advocates for victims of abuse focus on the prevalence and impact of the problem.
Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth is a career prosecutor who has seen the devastation caused by domestic and sexual abuse. Clackamas County files roughly twice the national average of domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
Clackamas County grand jury determines officers justified in using deadly force
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A Clackamas County grand jury concluded that Canby Police Department Sergeants Britton Nelson and Allen Miller were justified in using deadly force when they were confronted earlier this month by Mario Francisco Mendoza Jr.
Washington man who sexually abused three-year-old girl sentenced to 25 years in prison
An Olympia, Washington man convicted last week in Clackamas County Circuit Court of sexually abusing a three-year-old girl was sentenced to 300 months in prison.
Clackamas County DA’s Office one of first in nation to adopt technology allowing prosecutors, police to quickly share reports, evidence
The Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office recently became the first agency in Oregon – and one of the first in the nation -- to adopt an advanced integration of district attorney and law enforcement systems that allows agencies to directly share reports for prosecution.
Fatal stabbing, jail beating sends Eliazar Martinez-Rodriguez to prison for 25 years
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OREGON CITY, Or. -- Eliazar Martinez-Rodriguez was sentenced to 300 months in prison Tuesday for killing a man in an act motivated by jealousy and for later assaulting a jail inmate after being charged with the murder.
Martinez-Rodriguez, 35, and the victim, Jefferson Smith Cates, were romantically involved with the same woman.
Martinez-Rodriguez had occasionally stayed with the woman, who lived at the Crown Court apartments on Southeast 97th Avenue. He was unaware that the woman also had been intimate with Cates.
Knife-wielding man who threatened Happy Hippie Dippies sentenced to 35 months in prison
OREGON CITY, Or. -- The path that led Antonio Joseph Marion White to prison began on a May morning with a rock and a flock of geese.
Update on the September 3 officer-involved shooting in Canby
OREGON CITY, Or. -- On September 3, 2026 at approximately 10:30 p.m., Canby police officers responded to a report of a man attempting to force his way into an apartment at 259 S. Sequioa Parkway.
Officers contacted the individual, Mario Francisco Mendoza Jr., 34 (Hispanic male) and attempted to detain him in the parking lot of the Canby apartment complex.
Mr. Mendoza did not comply with verbal commands from the officers and attempted to flee on foot. During the brief pursuit, Mr. Mendoza turned toward the officers with a handgun drawn and fired at them.
Clackamas County Deputy DA Rachel Erickson named Domestic Violence Prosecutor of the Year
OREGON CITY, Or. -- Clackamas County Deputy District Attorney Rachel Erickson has been named Domestic Violence Prosecutor of the Year by the Oregon District Attorney’s Association.
Erickson, pictured with Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, joined the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office in 2020 and now handles domestic violence and human trafficking cases.