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When Jeff Halter started college, he was considering engineering, but soon worried it would be too boring. So he switched to law enforcement.
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Brent Larson, who retired in June after nearly 24 years with The Dalles Police Department, always felt he was “a natural police officer” as a …
Back in high school, Dan Nelson will tell you, he certainly wouldn’t have been voted most likely to become a police officer. Steve Baska, who later become his captain at The Dalles Police Department, remembered spotting young Nelson one day, sporting an 11½ inch green Mohawk on top of his lanky 6-foot-5-inch frame, and thinking, “Who is that freak?” But after five years in the military, Nelson joined the department and became the kind of officer people requested by name.
In an extreme rarity, police say, a local man was arrested Sunday afternoon in a downtown eatery after another patron saw that the man appeared to be accessing child porn on his electronic device.
Amanda Rosier was The Dalles Police Department’s first officer to win the coveted Victor G. Atiyeh award as the top graduate of her police academy class. A few weeks ago, she achieved another first, becoming the department’s first female member of the SERT team.
Team ends up just short of a World Series berth
The spectacular display of pyrotechnics at The Dalles waterfront on July 4 went unnoticed by local police, who were dealing with a different type of fireworks. A spate of domestic violence calls between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. necessitated that personnel from The Dalles Police Department call in help from Oregon State Police and the Wasco County Sheriff’s Office.
A city police sergeant working graveyard heard someone shaking a can of spray paint in the wee hours of Friday morning. Not long after, two teens were in custody, one of whom admitted to over 100 instances of graffiti. The Dalles Police Sgt. Dan Nelson was “sitting dark” in his patrol car downtown when he heard the rattle of a can of spray paint within a block of his location.
They were the coolest guys in town. Literally and figuratively. Four Hood River law enforcement officers dumped water on their own heads Friday in the parking lot of Hood River Supply. 41 buckets of ice water.
Through three games and three convincing wins, all fingers pointed towards the state tournament for The Dalles’ 11-12 Little League All Stars. However, TD lost on consecutive days to Bend North and Bend South, with the final setback coming Thursday in a 6-2 loss in District 5 playoff action at Field of Dreams in Hermiston.
