Incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources.
These incidents include only a fraction of the approximately 260,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2013 government study estimated occur annually.
Racist fliers from the Tualatin Valley Skins were distributed.
Reported August 05, 2004
Cross Burnings
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Francis Lawrence Faragalli, Joseph S. Colett and Jess Michael Andrews, all 18, were charged with burning a 15-foot cross into the lawn of a Jewish family in June.
Reported July 06, 2004
Leafletting
Salem, Oregon
Fliers from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations were left on cars parked at a local library.
Reported June 19, 2004
Vandalism
Lake Oswego, Oregon
A cross was burned with weedkiller in the front lawn of a Jewish family's residence.
Reported June 08, 2004
Leafletting
Tualatin, Oregon
Fliers from the Tualatin Valley Skins were distributed throughout six neighborhoods.
Reported May 29, 2004
Leafletting
Bandon, Oregon
Fliers from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations were placed on cars of people attending an Irish festival.
Reported May 08, 2004
Vandalism
Bend, Oregon
The word 'fag was spray-painted on a sign, the words 'hippie fag' were written on a stone wall and the word 'queer' was scrawled on two exterior walls and a window at a community college campus.
Reported March 10, 2004
Assault
Government Camp, Oregon
Four men and one woman allegedly attacked two gay men in what deputies are calling a brutal hate crime.
Reported February 28, 2004
Leafletting
Eugene, Oregon
White supremacist leaflets were placed on the windshields of cars of moviegoers who saw 'The Passion of the Christ.'
Reported January 26, 2004
Leafletting
Beaverton, Oregon
Flyers from the Tualatian Valley Skins were distributed throughout a neighborhood.
Reported January 21, 2004
Vandalism
Lake Oswego, Oregon
A racist slur was scrawled over a drinking fountain at a local high school.
Reported November 13, 2003
Legal Developments
Portland, Oregon
Dennis Lloyd Mothersbaugh, 23, was sentenced to slightly more than a year in prison and the maximum of five years for serving as a lookout in a racially motivated attack in September.
Reported September 10, 2003
Leafletting
Bandon, Oregon
Flyers from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations were distributed throughout three neighborhoods.
Reported August 14, 2003
Vandalism
Veneta, Oregon
Several pieces of property in a neighborhood were spray-painted with profanity and hate epithets.
Reported August 13, 2003
Legal Developments
Medford, Oregon
Andrew Lee Patterson, 24, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison under Measure 11, for attacking two homeless men earlier this year.
Reported July 29, 2003
Legal Developments
Medford, Oregon
Aaron Andrew St. James, 26, was sentenced to 60 days in jail and was ordered to spend three years on probation and pay $1,414 in restitution for attacking a homeless man.
Reported July 09, 2003
Intimidation
Gresham, Oregon
Brian Heath, 21, was sentenced to five years in prison for his part in a racially motivated shooting spree in January.
Reported June 23, 2003
Assault
Salem, Oregon
A 12-year-old boy allegedly called an Arab youngster a terrorist and punched him in the face.
