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NEWS
January 2016
Suspect arrested after series of armed robberies in Southwest and Southeast Portland
POLICE BLOTTER
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
In the evening hours of Monday,
Dec. 14 Portland Police Central
Precinct officers responded to several
reports of a person armed with
a shotgun. In one incident it was
reported that the suspect fired shots
at a downtown business but did not
injure anyone.
Armed robberies were reported in
Southwest and Southeast Portland
before a person believed to be the
suspect was taken into custody after
the last robbery at the Milwaukie
Market, located at 4401 SE Milwaukie
Ave. The person was located by a
Portland Police Canine Unit officer
in the area of the robbery.
The suspect arrested in the Dec.14
armed robbery crime spree has been
identified as 26-year-old Patrick
Miles Gazeley-Romney of Southwest
Portland. Gazeley-Romney was
booked into the Multnomah County
Jail on charges of Robbery in the First
Degree (four counts).
Gazeley-Romney will face
additional charges in Multnomah
County and Washington County
after the cases are reviewed by
Grand Juries. At press time, he was
scheduled to be arraigned on Dec.16
in Multnomah County Court.
The investigation started on the
evening of Dec. 14 at 9:24 p.m., when
Central Precinct officers responded to
Chico’s, located at 2405 W. Burnside
St. on the report of gunshots fired
into the business. Officers arrived in
the area and located evidence that
a shotgun had been fired into the
business. Nobody was injured in the
business and the suspect quickly left
the area.
As officers were investigating that
incident, a resident near Southwest
Vista Avenue and Market Street
Drive, not far from the first call,
reported a burglar armed with a
shotgun. Multiple officers, including
Police Canine Units, responded to
the area and searched for the suspect
but did not locate him. Nobody was
injured in the burglary and no shots
were fired.
At 9:15 p.m., the Beaverton
Police Department responded to
an armed robbery in the 8200 block
of Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale
Highway. The suspect, armed with a
shotgun, robbed a victim of cash and
his wallet after the victim got money
from an automated teller machine.
At 10:28 p.m., Central Precinct
officers responded to the report of
a traffic crash in the 6300 block of
Southwest Capitol Highway but
quickly learned that one of the
drivers involved in the crash had
been speeding away from a man
armed with a shotgun trying to rob
her.
At 10:35 p.m., the Swan Mart,
located at 4440 SW Barbur Blvd,
reported that they were robbed by a
man with a shotgun.
At 10:59 p.m., the Milwaukie
Market, located at 4401 SE Milwaukie
Blvd, reported that they were robbed
by a man with a shotgun.
Officers were in the area of the
final robbery and at 11:06 p.m., a
Canine Unit officer, who had viewed
surveillance video of the suspect
in an earlier robbery, saw a man
matching the suspect’s description
in the area and took him into custody
without incident.
Officers searching the neighborhood
located a vehicle believed to be used
by the suspect during the crime
spree. During a search of the vehicle,
robbery detectives located additional
evidence linking the suspect to the
robbery spree, including a shotgun.
This investigation was a joint
operation with Portland Police
Bureau’s Central Precinct, Canine
Unit, Robbery Detail detectives, and
the Beaverton Police Department.
Patrick Miles Gazeley-Romney
(Multnomah County Sheriff photo)
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