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Media release from the District Attorney's office from 11/19/2019

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 12/16/2021

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 3/6/2020

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 10/22/2019

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 1/4/2019

County staff will be available from 5-7 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Forest Grove City Auditorium to talk about the project.

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 6/11/2019

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 4/10/2020

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 8/24/2020

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 3/29/2019

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 4/19/2019

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 8/20/2020

Media release from the District Attorney's office from 6/9/2022

On June 11, 2020, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office email list was accessed by an unauthorized individual. This database of email addresses was used to send a fake version of our “WCSO News” email newsletter. The information contained in the fake email is inflammatory and does not further the conversation or help the frustration and concerns our community is feeling in regard to police brutality and race relations. We apologize for the unauthorized spam messages.

Over the past several months, two detectives from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit have been investigating 26-year-old Lafayette A. Castillo of Beaverton.  Detectives learned Mr. Castillo used Snapchat and Instagram to pose as a high school student so he could talk with children online. He then met children in person and sexually assaulted them.

On Friday, November 1, 2019, Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies serving the City of North Plains responded to a call involving suspicious Halloween candy. The call came from a concerned mother in the 10100 block of NW Curtis Street. The mother told deputies she discovered a pill inside her daughter’s Halloween candy. The pill resembled a chewable Advil tablet packaged inside a roll of SweeTarts

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, at 7:20 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s Office Westside Interagency Narcotics (WIN) investigators executed a search warrant in the 700 block of SE 10th Avenue, in Hillsboro. At approximately 8:25 pm, investigators served a second search warrant in the 12000 block of SW Allen Blvd, in Beaverton. Both search warrants were the result of a single investigation.