November 2026
Serving Domestic Violence Survivors & Their Families
Last month, Hillsboro Police Department expanded its partnership with Washington County's Domestic Violence Resource Center (DVRC), transitioning the Department's internal DV advocate resource model to the DVRC.
This move enhances services for community members impacted by domestic violence by providing them with expanded, centralized services, including 24-hour advocacy and comprehensive support.
The DVRC is housed inside the Family Peace Center of Washington County (FPC). This organization provides a wholistic approach to prevention and intervention, as well as healing and hope for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
Hillsboro Police will continue its commitment to victim services with an assigned Detective to the FPC, as well as internally with HPD's Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART); a team comprised of specially trained officers who investigate cases of domestic violence.
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18 Years for Manslaugher & 75 Months for Criminally Negligent Homicide
Viviana Lucinda Vallejo
On November 4, 2020, Hillsboro police officers were dispatched to the Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve after someone there found a body. The victim, Alexis Vega-Cruz, was shot and killed.
In January of 2023, police received a tip related to the homicide. The caller reported that a person known to her had admitted to shooting and killing the victim. Investigators learned that the shooter believed Mr. Vega-Cruz was involved in an assault months prior and that the shooter was seeking revenge for the attack. They also learned the shooter convinced Viviana Lucinda Vallejo to lure the victim to the scene of the deadly shooting before he was killed.
Salvador Jaime Guillen Contreras
On June 23, 2026, the defendant was driving at a high rate of speed in Hillsboro without a valid driver's license when he ran a red light before he hit and killed a cyclist who was crossing the intersection in the crosswalk. The victim, Connor Navarro, was just 19 years old.
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Move Immediately to the Right & Stop
For the purpose of this article, an emergency vehicle is a police vehicle (to include a motorcycle), fire engine/truck and ambulance.
When an emergency vehicle is approaching you from any direction with their emergency lights/sirens or just lights activated, Oregon law (ORS 811.145) requires you to yield to it.
To do so, you must:
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Immediately drive to a position as near as possible and parallel to the right edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection, and
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STOP and remain so until the emergency vehicle(s) has passed you or the police officer concludes a potential traffic stop with you.
This applies to all lanes of travel. Do not stop in the middle of the lane or pull to the left-turn lane or center-turn lane. Emergency personnel are trained to always pass on the left because the law says you must yield to the right. This is for everyone’s safety.
Traffic Stops - When a police officer is behind you (with lights activated), they expect you to pull immediately to the right and stop. If you delay doing so, you may elevate the officer’s concern; potentially leading the officer to think there may be something more going on than just the moving violation.
ORS 811.145 - Failure to yield to an emergency vehicle is a $265 fine.
Media Releases & Stats
17 Arrested in Retail Theft Operation
Whether at the Store or Your Front Door
Shopping In-Store
- Don’t leave purchased items (& other valuables) unattended in a cart.
- If you have multiple stops to make, conceal packages out of sight in the trunk/back of your vehicle BEFORE arriving at your next destination.
Shopping Online
- If you won’t be home, have it
- sent to your work.
- sent to a trusted neighbor who will be home.
- held for pick-up at a store, post office, carrier’s location.
- Utilize a designated locker location.
- Add delivery instructions on where to leave it out of view.
- Track it & sign up for delivery notifications.
- Remove it from your porch quickly.
- Research pros/cons of special delivery services & security devices.
If you witness a package theft, call 911 immediately. If you have a package stolen, call 503-629-0111 or go to Hillsboro-Oregon.gov/ReportCrime
News Highlights
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