Suspect in custody in violent attacks in Old Town Portland, police say
A still image from cellphone video shows a woman kicking a man in Old Town
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Police took someone into custody Friday night who they said threatened people with a stick, cut someone with a knife, punched another person and “was so violent they had to be sedated” before being taken to a hospital.
Around 7:30 p.m. Police said the suspect cut someone in the hand with a knife around Southwest Naito Parkway and Ankeny Street. That person went to the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct, where an officer called for medics. The person was taken to a hospital for treatment.
At about the same time police were called to Southwest Ankeny Street and 2nd Avenue on a report that someone was threatening people with a stick.
Police take a photograph of a stick allegedly used by a woman to attack people in Old Town on Friday night, July 4, 2025. (Victor Park/KATU)
Jenniffer Dieringer said she personally knows the suspect and was with her in a bar, but she had distanced herself from the woman because she said the woman had been drinking.
“I saw her come by. Her words were, and I quote, ‘I’m going to go to prison for killing somebody,’” Dieringer said.
The woman then started attacking a man who was walking by.
Dieringer said police showed up, with officers on one side of the street, and the woman on the other, taunting the officers. She said the officers warned the woman to not approach them or they would use stun guns against her.
Dieringer said a truck then drove by. She said the driver was forced to stop or he would have hit the woman. The woman refused to allow the driver to continue, while shouting obscenities. A passenger in the pickup got out to ask the woman what was going on.
“She instantly punches him in the face and hits him with a staff,” Dieringer said.
Police officers rushed in, stunning her twice, she said. Police confirmed to KATU News they used a stun gun to get the suspect into custody.
“Basically, dogpiled her, subdued her until she could be taken care of otherwise,” Dieringer said.
Police have not yet identified the suspect or what charges that person faces.
“She was so far out of control — nothing — I could tell — nothing I could say would calm her down,” Dieringer said about what transpired when the woman started attacking the man outside the bar, prompting her to call 911.
UPDATE
As of Saturday, July 5, Portland Police told KATU News the person was treated and released from the hospital, and that the suspect was not able to be identified but was booked into jail on felony assault in the second degree, and misdemeanor assault in the fourth degree under the name “Jane Doe.”
Police asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect by emailing crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov and referencing case number 25-177673.
Mo. ex-officers caught on bodycam saying they won’t help dying man because their shifts were ending
One officer suggested to his partner that they “cruise around and come back,” before they walked away joking, opting to wait for other officers to respond
By Brian Niemietz
New York Daily News
Two former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers are accused of leaving a shooting victim to die because their shift was about to end.
Footage obtained by Missouri station KMOV First Alert 4 appears to show then-Officers Austin Fraser and Ty Warren searching a park where they came across mortally wounded Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera, who had called 911 to say he was going to kill himself. The cops are surprised to discover Rodriguez-Rivera on the ground and still breathing after taking the call.
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“Damn, he’s right there,” one officer can be heard saying on footage recorded by Warren’s body-worn camera.
The officers acknowledge Rodriguez-Rivera isn’t dead. But when Warren suggests they bring the victim somewhere for help, his partner shoots down that idea.
“We ain’t taking s–t,” Fraser said. “I get off in 30 minutes.”
Fraser then suggests to Warren they “cruise around and come back,” before they walk away joking and wait for other officers to respond.
“They’re gonna find this (expletive), and we’re gonna be like, ‘Oh, (expletive), you found him,’” Fraser said to Warren.
The pair return about 10 minutes later pretending to have just arrived on the scene for the first time. A third officer calls for emergency services while Fraser and Warren stick by their plan to play dumb.
Fraser and Warren then exit the scene a second time, leaving other officers to handle the situation.
“You can’t just leave,” another officer is heard telling the duo as they do just that.
The 29-year-old victim was then rushed to a St. Louis-area hospital, where he died from a gunshot to his head 40 minutes after calling 911.
The state of Missouri accused the former cops of “reckless disregard” for their handling of that September 2023 incident, according to First Alert 4’s report. The Missouri news outlet obtained the footage last month after filing a records request.
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Rodriguez-Rivera’s death was reportedly ruled a suicide, but no gun was located at the scene.
A police department representative told the Daily News both officers had been relieved of their duties.
“The two individuals are no longer employed by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department,” Mitch McCoy, the department’s public affairs and information director, said in a statement. “While we are unable to comment on specific personnel matters, SLMPD holds its officers to the highest of standards. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken if an officer is found to have violated policies.”
Warren’s peace officer license was revoked because of the incident, according to First Alert 4. A disciplinary hearing for Fraser was scheduled for Tuesday with the state of Missouri.
State officials told the Daily News that results of that hearing are made official after 30 days. A statewide license to practice law can’t be reinstated once revoked.
Michigan man accused of beating police with hockey stick at U.S. Capitol
LANSING — Federal authorities have arrested a Wixom man they contend beat police with a hockey stick during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.
Michael Joseph Foy is accused of attacking officers near an entrance to the Capitol during a violent clash caught on camera. He’s the second Michigan man to be arrested this week for alleged crimes during the Capitol insurrection, joining Karl Dresch of Calumet.
Both were photographed carrying flags supporting then-President Donald Trump, who spoke to supporters earlier in the day and had unsuccessfully urged Congress to block the Electoral College vote count that certified President Joe Biden’s election victory.
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Investigators identified Foy by comparing video footage of the attack with Facebook posts by Foy’s dad, Joseph, according to an FBI affidavit.
Joseph Foy of Westland had posted a Jan. 6 picture of his son wrapped in an American flag, carrying a hockey stick with a Trump flag draped from it near the Washington Monument. He was wearing the “same clothing” as the attacker and, in an earlier post by his father, was pictured wearing the same Marine Corps. Veteran hat, according to the FBI.
In a statement of facts, an unidentified FBI Special Agent said the FBI initially started investigating the incident after receiving a tip on Twitter on Jan. 10 from someone who sent a photo of a man carrying the hockey stick and alleging the suspect had killed a police officer by hitting him repeatedly. The FBI agent wrote there is no evidence to support that a law enforcement official was killed.
On Jan. 10, the bureau identified video footage of the incident through a New York Times article, the agent wrote in the statement.
In the video of the Jan. 6 attack, Foy “begins striking a group of Metropolitan Police Officers assisting in the protection of the U.S. Capitol who had been knocked down and dragged into the crowd of rioters,” according to the FBI affidavit. “This attack continues for approximately 16 second until Foy is knocked down by another rioter. At that time, Foy circles back through the crowd, lowers his hood, which reveals a clear image of his face.”
Foy then “raises his hockey stick above his head in celebration and begins shouting” indistinguishable words, an unnamed FBI agent wrote in a court filing. Later, he was seen motioning and shouting to someone else in the crowd and saying “let’s go” while pointing at the Capitol. He was filmed crawling through a broken window into the building.
In the YouTube video, a man wearing a dark gray jacket can be seen repeatedly hitting someone with a blue and white hockey stick and later climbing through a broken window.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Foy was arrested Thursday in the Eastern District of Michigan on several federal charges: knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; obstruction of law enforcement; forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, or interfering with a United States officer; aiding and abetting, and obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding of Congress.
At 1:49 p.m. on Jan. 6, Foy’s father, Joseph Foy, updated his Facebook cover photo to a picture of his son in a dark gray coat in front of a group of protesters at the Capitol. Two hours later, at 3:55 p.m., Joseph wrote that his son was “in no way shape or form involved in the violence” but appears to have since deleted that post.
Foy is scheduled to appear for the first time in the U.S. District Court in Detroit at 1 p.m. on Thursday.
Federal authorities arrested a second Michigan man accused of breaking into the Capitol, Dresch, on Tuesday near his Upper Peninsula home in Calumet. Among other things, he’s been charged with “obstruction of an official proceeding,” a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
On Facebook, Dresch had posted photographs from inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 — “we are in,” he wrote in an accompanying comment — and followed it up with a video just after midnight.
“antifa did not take the capitol.that was Patriots,” Dresch wrote in a since deleted post. “I can’t guarantee there weren’t some shit birds in the crowd but what multi-million crowd can you guarantee?.don’t give them the thunder, we the people took back our house, the news is all bullshit.and now those traitors Know who’s really in charge.”
Bridge Michigan was not able to reach Dresch or Foy for comment. Federal authorities have detained both, and it’s not yet clear who will represent them in court.
Dresch, whose Facebook feed is littered with images of Confederate flag paraphernalia, sent another photograph of himself to a fellow Facebook user on Jan. 6 showing him inside the Capitol and posing with a Trump flag beside a statute of former Vice President James Calhoun, who had called slavery a “positive good.”
In one post, Dresch claimed he did not see “any violence from our people” during the insurrection, during which five people died, including a police officer.
In earlier posts, he had discussed plans to try and “stop the steal” in Washington, D.C., a reference to unsubstantiated claims of election rigging by Trump, who had encouraged Vice President Mike Pence and Congress to block the electoral college vote count that same day.
While more than 140 House Republicans voted to do so even after the Capitol was stormed, they were unsuccessful, and Congress officially certified Biden’s election win.
Dresch is the son of a former state Rep. Stephen Dresch, a Hancock Republican who died in 2006, according to The Detroit News.
Ironically, a year before his death, Stephen Dresch reportedly tipped off authorities to information about an anti-government extremist: Terry Nichols, an accomplice in the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing. He told the FBI and members of Congress about explosives that remained hidden in Nichols’ former home a decade after the bombing.
Karl Dresch appeared in federal court Wednesday for an initial hearing, where he requested a court-appointed defense attorney. U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge’s office is asking the court to keep him behind bars until trial, alleging “a serious risk that the defendant will flee and a serious risk that the defendant will obstruct or attempt to obstruct justice.”
