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Forest Grove cop charged with harassment used Taser in fatal encounter April 28 2021 Steven Teets struggled with James Marshall prior to Marshall's death, and the family wants answers. Weeks before a Forest Grove police officer allegedly harassed a family on Oct. 31, 2020 over a Black Lives Matter flag on their house, he used a Taser stun gun on a man who later died, Pamplin Media Group has learned. After finding 44-year-old James Eric Marshall suffering what appeared to be a mental health crisis — seemingly trying to kick open the door of an office on the premises of St. Anthon...

April 04 2021 Mirella Castaneda wanted to know who attacked her Forest Grove home and traumatized her family. Things only got worse. Part Four of a series When the Washington County Sheriff's deputy arrived at Mirella Castaneda's home early on Saturday, Oct. 31, he did not tell her or her husband, Pablo Weimann, why he was taking over for Forest Grove Police Department Officer Amber Daniels, who already had interviewed Castaneda for half an hour starting around 1:20 a.m. The deputy didn't disclose that the man suspected of attacking their home was a Forest Grove police officer and that...

April 07 2021 Woman flying BLM flag, charged at by 'violent' officer, suspects her politics led cops to mishandle case. A woman who was confronted on her property by an apparently intoxicated and belligerent off-duty Forest Grove police officer on Halloween, has submitted a letter warning the city of Forest Grove and Washington County that she may file a law suit, saying she was treated differently by police because she displayed Black Lives Matter flags and signs on her home and cars. The letter represents the latest wrinkle in a high-profile incident that has already led to criminal ch...

April 06 2021 Mirella Castaneda says she doesn't think Forest Grove Police Officer Steven Teets should keep his badge. Until Forest Grove Police Officer Steven Teets accepts a plea deal or is convicted in court, it's unclear what consequences he will face for his drunken, violent attack on Mirella Castaneda's home last Oct. 31. If Washington County offered an official Restorative Justice program for adult defendants, Castaneda might have felt more in control of the process. Restorative Justice empowers victims by letting them shape more creative and transformative consequences for their o...

But Teets's attack and its aftermath did change her feelings about local law enforcement. As a child growing up in Forest Grove and Aloha, Castaneda heard negative stories about how some of her relatives and other Latinos had been treated poorly by police. But since she came back to Washington County at age 18, after three years in Mexico, she has had only positive impressions of its law enforcement agencies. It helps that two of her relatives are police officers in the Portland metro area. Also, in the Washington County department where she works, some of her co-workers are married to sher...