Crime

PORTLAND, Ore. - A man days away from realizing his dream of opening his own bike shop is now wondering what he's going to do after burglars made off with his tools and two customers' bikes.

Tom Daly was set to open his new shop this week, but over the weekend, thieves made it through the barbed-wire fence surrounding his shop near Southeast 11th and Clay Street in Portland.

Daly said they got away with tools, bikes and a big piece of his dream. Daly said he will keep one reminder of the incident with him forever: the broken padlock that kept the gate shut to his business.

He admitted that he was naive to think a padlock would keep crooks out of his shop and away from his tools. Daly said most of his tools were stolen.

Police are investigating a possible late night break-in at Cherry Park Elementary School.

Officers responded to an alarm at the school and when they arrived they found the door to a computer lab propped open. Police are now trying to determine if anything was taken.

The school has a history of being broken into and police are wondering whether this incident is connected to a series of other school burglaries on the east side where robbers have been targeting computers.

A woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend's child after he broke up with her pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

Serenity Sanchez, 22, was arrested a little over a week ago and charged with first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon following the incident, which happened at a home in the 3300 block of Southeast 129th.

According to court documents, Sanchez refused to leave her boyfriend's house and eventually went into 3-year-old Alena Groves' bedroom. There, she allegedly stabbed the toddler with what police called a 'sharp object.'

The toddler was hospitalized  in critical condition but pulled through. The child's family tells KATU Alena is now resting and healing well.

A police presence remains at the intersection of Southeast 129th Avenue and Powell Boulevard. This  area is known as the Powellhurst/Gilbert Neighborhood.

They are there to investigate a disturbance call that came in shortly after 5 p.m. today. The call came from the 3300 block of Southeast 129th Avenue.

Officers arrived to find a toddler with a stab wound. Medical units respond and the child, identified by one officer as a 3-year-old girl, was transported to a local hospital.

Police say the child is going to make it. They also say it appears the stabbing was a result of the girl being in the middle of a domestic argument between two adults.

Police have taken a female adult into custody. Domestic crimes involving a child become automatic felonies in Multnomah County.

Police have a crisis bus at the scene, and our photographer on the scene tells us they have shut the one-way dead-end street off to motorists coming in. The crisis bus is to provide police and those responding with coffee and other away-from-the-office comforts.