A man with a parole warrant from a Clark County crime set a Portland hotel room on fire and threw knives and a hatchet at police in a standoff that lasted several hours Monday morning, according to Portland police.
At 2:45 a.m., police received information that Terry Glenn Mortensen, 57, who had an outstanding parole warrant for a 2003 assault in Clark County, was in a room at Motel 6 on Southeast Powell Boulevard in Portland.
Portland police did not have a current address for Mortensen.
Police arrived and Mortensen refused to come out of the motel room, prompting a call to the agency’s Special Emergency Reaction Team. After they talked to him for more than two hours, police said, he still refused to exit.
Officers eventually used an explosive to open the room and, after looking inside, learned that Mortensen was in the bathroom, police said. Officers saw smoke coming from the closed bathroom door and a stream of liquid was being sprayed from the bathroom to the main motel room.
