Gresham couple, accused of starving their children, face criminal charges
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
their two young children.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Mena Kamel, 33, and Marina Zaki, 28, are facing four counts of assault and 14 of criminal mistreatment. All of the accusations are linked to the parents failing to provide their children with food or adequate medical care.
The investigation began in late June
after police and medics came to their Gresham home to attend to one of the children, who had suffered a critical injury.
Court documents did not specify what kind of injury the child had or whether the parents caused the injury, but reports indicate that after the child was taken to the hospital for treatment,
DA: Two people accused of starvation, malnourishment of young children
According to court documents, starvation, malnourishment, and criminal mistreatment occurred between Sept. 1, 2018 and June 27, 2020.
Posted: Jan 20, 2021 8:08 AM
Updated: Jan 20, 2021 10:02 AM
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GRESHAM, OR (KPTV) Two people are facing charges for the starvation and malnourishment of two young children, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
Mena Kamel, 33, and Marina Zaki, 28, are charged with four counts of first-degree assault and 14 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment.
According to court documents, starvation, malnourishment, and criminal mistreatment occurred between Sept. 1, 2018 and June 27, 2020.
This investigation began on June 27, 2020 when one of the children suffered a critical injury that prompted a law enforcement and medical response to a home on the 16400 block of East Burnside in Gresham.
Charges dropped against man accused of killing 22-year-old in SE Portland
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
A 23-year-old Portland man was released from jail after a Multnomah County grand jury declined to indict him in the Oct. 24 shooting death of a 22-year-old man.
The Multnomah County District Attorney announced the development Friday, one week after jurors issued a not-true bill against Dario Papa-Vicente on any charges related to the killing of Noah Terry.
Terry died after someone shot at him and his brother near Southeast 48th Avenue and Division Street around 9:30 p.m.
Although investigators have provided few details about the case, an affidavit filed by a prosecutor sheds some light. In the court document, a deputy district attorney wrote that an anonymous person, later identified as a relative of Papa-Vicente, called the district attorney’s office with information about the killing. The person said Papa-Vicente had recounted how he was sitting in a parked car in a restaurant pa
Beavercreek man charged with shooting Portland federal courthouse January 13 2021
Cody Melby had attended Salem Stop the Steal protest prior to allegedly firing shots into the Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
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An armed man upset about the results of the 2020 presidential election fired five shots into the side of Portland s federal courthouse on Friday, Jan. 8, according to court documents filed in federal court Sunday.
Cody Levi Melby, 39, of Beavercreek, reportedly climbed over the temporary security fence erected last summer to keep racial justice protesters outside the federal courthouse before he opened fire on the building, the documents state. No one was injured in the attack.
Black Lives Matter activists in Portland reflect on contrast between Capitol and local police response
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Over 100 people gathered at Portland s South Park Blocks around 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, and marched throughout the downtown area. Mark Graves/Staff
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tepid response by Capitol police stood
in stark contrast to the force used on left-wing protesters
in Portland.
have deployed tear gas, shot rubber bullets and collectively
arrested more than 1,000 people who have protested around the city since the May 25 police killing of George Floyd. For much of July, federal forces tear gassed Portlanders gathered every night to protest police brutality outside a mostly empty downtown federal courthouse.