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Courts & Crime

Police lights flash on the roof of a Vancouver police vehicle.

Man arrested in Vancouver on Portland murder warrants

Police lights flash on the roof of a Vancouver police vehicle.

April 15, 2024, 1:47pm Clark County News

A man was arrested Friday in Vancouver in connection with an April 1 homicide in Portland’s Hazelwood neighborhood. Read story

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Vancouver man sentenced to a year and a day for WSU robbery

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April 15, 2024, 9:34am Clark County News

A Vancouver man was sentenced to just over a year in prison for a robbery on Washington State University’s campus in July. Read story

A Clark County Sheriff's Office vehicle.

Man dead in shooting involving Clark County sheriff’s deputies in Salmon Creek

A Clark County Sheriff's Office vehicle.

April 13, 2024, 6:57pm Clark County News

A man was killed in a shooting involving deputies Saturday at the Salmon Creek American Legion on Northeast 20th Avenue, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said. Read story

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More transparency needed for WA police asset seizures, audit says

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April 12, 2024, 8:05am Courts & Crime

OLYMPIA — A new state audit says that Washington police agencies could be more transparent about the process of seizing assets like cars, cash or guns in the course of criminal investigations and clearer about how people can get that property back. Read story

Sophia Johnson reacts in November 2005 to a jury acquitting her of first-degree murder in the death of her mother-in-law. Sitting next to her is Therese Lavallee, her lawyer, who won the retrial of her murder conviction.

True crime podcast revisits murder of Brush Prairie woman, trials of daughter-in-law Sophia Johnson

Sophia Johnson reacts in November 2005 to a jury acquitting her of first-degree murder in the death of her mother-in-law. Sitting next to her is Therese Lavallee, her lawyer, who won the retrial of her murder conviction.

April 12, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Life

A Boston-based radio series is revisiting the 20-year-old unsolved case of a Brush Prairie woman found brutally bludgeoned to death in her home — and features the woman who was once convicted of her murder. Read story

Clark County Sheriff’s Office investigating armed robberies in Salmon Creek, Orchards

April 11, 2024, 5:40pm Clark County News

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is investigating multiple armed robberies at stores in Salmon Creek and Orchards. Read story

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Vancouver man, 18, gets 366 days in parking lot shooting that wounded one person

The Clark County Courthouse (The Columbian files)

April 10, 2024, 4:12pm Clark County News

An 18-year-old Vancouver man was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for shooting at a large group of people and wounding a man during a June fight in the parking lot of the Clark County Family YMCA in east Vancouver. Read story

Ethan Alexander Clonts, then 18, of Ridgefield makes a first appearance Sept. 16, 2022, in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide stemming from a crash the night before on northbound Interstate 205 at the Northeast 134th Street exit.

Homicide case reopened in death of 17-year-old in 2022 crash on Interstate 5

Ethan Alexander Clonts, then 18, of Ridgefield makes a first appearance Sept. 16, 2022, in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide stemming from a crash the night before on northbound Interstate 205 at the Northeast 134th Street exit.

April 10, 2024, 11:51am Clark County News

Prosecutors reopened a 2022 vehicular homicide case against a Ridgefield man accused of driving recklessly, striking an Interstate 205 guardrail and killing his 17-year-old passenger. Read story

Former Camas High School girls head wrestling coach Mark Yamashita appears Tuesday at the Clark County Courthouse for sentencing in his child molestation case. Yamashita was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Ex-Camas High School girls wrestling coach sentenced to 20 months in prison for molesting girl, 16

Former Camas High School girls head wrestling coach Mark Yamashita appears Tuesday at the Clark County Courthouse for sentencing in his child molestation case. Yamashita was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

April 9, 2024, 6:06pm Clark County News

A judge sentenced a former Camas High School girls wrestling coach Tuesday to 20 months in prison for molesting a 16-year-old girl in 2022. Read story

Clark County Sheriff&rsquo;s deputies saw a gun in a Toyota Highlander suspected of being involved in drive-by shootings north of Vancouver.

Early morning drive-by shooting spree damages cars, churches in Clark County

Clark County Sheriff&rsquo;s deputies saw a gun in a Toyota Highlander suspected of being involved in drive-by shootings north of Vancouver.

April 9, 2024, 12:14pm Clark County News

Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 23-year-old Felida man early today on suspicion of drive-by shootings that damaged two churches and two cars. Read story