This is KGW news at 5.
Good evening and thanks
for joining us tonight.
I'm Joe raineri.
We want to start tonight with some
breaking news out of Northeast Portland.
Police say a man was shot and
killed at NE 1st and Hancock.
Now that's in the Elliott neighborhood.
Just around
2:00 o'clock this afternoon,
officers found the victim
dead but no suspects. Insight.
So far police haven't made any arrests.
Northeast Hancock between first
and second are now closed while
police investigate the shooting.
Meanwhile, the case is growing against
a Hillsborough coffee stand owner.
61 year old Jeffrey Hebner was
arrested earlier this month on charges
involving sex abuse and rape involving
eight job applicants and employees.
Now, prosecutors say 14 more women have
come forward with similar allegations.
Tim Gordon reports that a judge set
Hebner's bail at $700,000 this week
after hearing the specifics in the case.
This is Jeffrey Hebner in court
on February 1st facing 26 counts
including rape, ****** sex abuse,
public indecency and solicitation.
It all stems from his alleged activity
as the owner of Dreamgirls Espresso,
a bikini barista stand on Tualatin
Valley Highway in Hillsboro.
At the time, police described his
actions from 2015 to November of
last year as a criminal abuse of
power against young women and said
it is likely that there could
be others out there that.
Is telling. In court paperwork connected
to a release hearing this week,
prosecutors wrote.
Since this case has been pending,
14 more women have reached out to law
enforcement and the investigation is ongoing.
They also laid out specifics of the
allegations made against Habner,
much of it too graphic to
describe here fully.
Prosecutors say it started with
job applicants tricked into going
not to the coffee stand but to
Hebner's home for an interview,
where they were informed the
barista job included nudity
and performing in a sexual way.
For customers,
and we're told to disrobe in one
such instance this past November,
prosecutors say D for the defendant offered
Casey shots of liquor and lines of cocaine,
ultimately forcibly touched Casey all over
her body and attempted to rape Casey,
but she was able to physically
block him with her leg.
The 19 year old KC ultimately left and made
a report to police that got the case going.
Prosecutors say the abuse and
exploitation continued for employees.
At the coffee stand,
where several women described the regular
occurrence of naughty coffee orders,
those required them to expose their
bodies and provide a sexual performance
for customers who paid extra fees.
The young women told prosecutors
hundreds of dollars could be made
in a single shift and that Hebner
got a cut of the money and often
got naughty coffees himself.
In conclusion, prosecutors wrote,
Hebner preyed on particularly vulnerable
young women, writing for years.
He believed he was getting away
with horrific acts of sexual abuse.
That he was untouchable.
Now hebner's in jail with bail set
at 700,000. Tim Gordon, KGW news.
Hey Silverton Teen who's been
missing for nearly four months has
been reunited with his family.
The Marion County Sheriff's Office
shared the update earlier today.
Ezra Mayu is 17 years old now.
His family told us in December that he
went to work at the Oregon Garden Resort
that's in Silverton on October 15th.
Later that day, Ezra texted his parents
to tell him that he was working a double,
but when they went to go pick him up,
he was gone.
They believe Ezra was caught
up in a catfishing scheme.
That's where someone online tries to
lure someone into a relationship.
Their money or get private
information out of them.
The Sheriff's Office didn't give
any information about where
or how Ezra was found.
Nike is asking the city of
Portland to provide security at
its store in Northeast Portland.
The Oregonian says a letter was delivered
to Mayor Ted Wheeler's office on Thursday.
Nike wants the city to cover the
cost of having off duty police
officers handle security.
Late last year,
a KGW investigation looked into
what's happening at the Nike
Community Store along MLK.
It's been closed for months.
And our analysis of Portland
crime data found that since 2019,
the Nike Community Store has reported
437 shoplifting cases to police.
The mayor's office told The
Oregonian meetings between Nike
and City and the city rather,
are ongoing as they look to find a solution.
Tonight we have an update on the number on
the murder case at the University of Idaho.
There's more pushback against the gag
order that the judge put in place. First,
one of the victims family filed an appeal,
saying the order violated his client's
First Amendment rights. Friday.
The suspect's attorney objected.
He, along with prosecutors,
say because the family's attorney has
special access to information about the case,
they're worried it could be leaked
to the public and sway a jury.
The gag order limits.
Investigators,
law enforcement and attorneys from
talking about information in the
case that is not public record.
A legal expert is weighing in on
the criminal investigation opened
against executives at the OCC.
The Oregonian first reported this week
that leaders at the Oregon Liquor and
Cannabis Commission were keeping bottles
of high end liquor for themselves.
They specifically named Pappy
Van Winkle 23 year old Whiskey,
a very rare and expensive bourbon which
can cost thousands of dollars a bottle.
Yesterday,
Oregon's Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum announced she's
looking into ethics violations.
Maybe the investigation itself is
just simply a indication that.
This matter is serious enough in some sense,
whether it's the scale of potential
misconduct or simply the public confidence
in the government that it warrants
at least having an investigation so
that the public will understand that,
hey, these are government regulators.
In a sense, they have power
over the rest of us.
But there are watchdogs who are
going to look into the matter.
Governor Kotek has already
called for the resignation of
the top officials in an e-mail.
The Associated Press,
a spokesperson for the OCC said
they will comply fully with
the criminal investigation.
Tonight, a Prineville family hopes for
strength and healing for their infant
twins currently in the ICU with RSV.
Despite a statewide decline
in hospitalizations,
the situation for the babies remains serious.
As of Saturday night, both are on
ventilators and fighting off Demonia.
Alma McCarty shares their story.
Holden and Hartley were born
prematurely in December, and now,
at around just two months old,
they're both hospitalized here
at Randall Children's battling RSV.
Two tiny fighters now fighting
a serious respiratory illness.
The twins were born 30 at 32 weeks.
Their actual due date was,
I think, the same day. They were
starting to show symptoms for RSV,
the twins, uncle Ryan Hood explains.
Both Holden and Hartley were
airlifted to the ICU in Portland
from Prineville earlier this week.
The ventilators are taking away the
strain and stress of breathing so
their bodies can focus on healing.
They're both about 6 pounds. Very tiny.
This isn't the twins first time in the NICU.
Hood says they spent about a
month in the hospital in Bend,
only home for about 3 weeks.
Parents Lindsey and Garrett
Puckett now asking for prayers
and support for their babies.
They're very grateful for the
outpouring of love and support
from friends, family and strangers
and just community in general.
Oregon health officials reported
a decline in community spread
of flu and RSV predicting.
A drop in respiratory virus
hospitalizations in the coming weeks.
At this point, they do remain
high as RSV season ramps down,
this family still urges caution and care.
It's very serious and I don't think
the twins hadn't really even left
the house other than appointments,
so it can be very easy to get infected
in North Portland. Alma McCarty, KGW news.
A heads up for drivers tonight,
the Morrison Bridge is closed
all weekend to traffic,
including bike and pedestrian.
City crews will be painting
and doing maintenance.
The closure started last night at 10
and wraps up Monday morning at 5.