Oregon
Teen arrested with loaded rifle walking streets in Portland, police say
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) – A teenager was arrested with a loaded rifle outside a Portland restaurant on Monday morning, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Police said, at 11:38 a.m., officers responded to a call about a suspect with a black and red rifle outside a restaurant in the 200 block of Northeast 82nd Avenue.
Officers found the teen walking with a group of juveniles and stopped them, at Northeast 81st Avenue and Northeast Flanders Street, and took the teen with the rifle into custody.
Police confiscated a loaded 223 caliber semiautomatic rifle.
Police identified the suspect as a 15-year-old boy from Salem.
He was taken to the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention facility and booked on charges of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Unlawful Possession of a Loaded Firearm in Public (city code), as well as a probation violation warrant.
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