Handcuffed Woman Shoots at Officers Who Tried To Help With Her Dogs



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Gladstone, Oregon — On November 22, 2021, just before 8 p.m., Gladstone Police Officer Clement Lau pulled over now 37-year-old Yvette Lares Garcia after she did not stop at a stop sign. During the stop, Officer Lau learned Garcia had an extraditable warrant from Texas and took her into custody. After Gladstone Sgt. Travis Hill arrived to the scene, Garcia told officers she was concerned about her two pit bulls alone at her home. Officers agreed to stop at her home on the way to jail to secure her dogs for Clackamas County Dog Control. The officers arrived at the home with Garcia. She was in handcuffs at the time. They enter the home through the garage and the dogs rushed out. The dogs barked at the officers, one growling. Garcia recommends getting leashes for her pets. With her hands behind her back and in handcuffs, Garcia walked upstairs to get a leash. Garcia drew Sgt. Hill’s attention away from her for a moment and was able to grab a 9mm semi-automatic handgun from a nearby nightstand.

Garcia said she would not go back to jail and then shot Sgt. Hill in the lower leg. The two officers then exchanged gunfire with Garcia, yelling at her multiple times to drop the gun. Moments later, backup arrives, and Officer Lau rushed in to help his partner. Garcia was hit in the torso multiples times and taken to the hospital for treatment. Officer Lau was not injured, but Sgt. Hill was shot in the leg and grazed on the arm. Hill’s leg wound caused permanent injury and he left law enforcement. On. October 12, 2022, Clackamas County Circuit Judge Cody M. Weston sentenced Garcia to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed for attempted aggravated murder under Oregon law. She is also required to pay Hill a $50,000 compensatory fine for injuries that caused permanent injury. Texas officials intent to extradite Garcia for allegedly embezzling $1.4 million from an oil company where she worked in Ector County.

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22 thoughts on “Handcuffed Woman Shoots at Officers Who Tried To Help With Her Dogs”

  1. In all my years as LEO I've not once ever heard of officers doing this. The suspect can make arrangements at the jail once booked and contact friends or family later, or obtain consent to retrieve them in the morning. This shows just how fast things can change.

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  2. I don't understand why they went so above and beyond their duty in this case. They should stick to being nice by giving a warning instead of issuing petty traffic tickets.

    Moral of the story, no good deed goes unpunished.

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  3. Only 10 years for this???????????
    This new world is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!
    These are very dumb officers…but just trying to be nice to a woman.
    DEI is not the answer.
    God help us all.

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  4. Hope she never sees the light of day EVER and hope that officer heals the best he can and can have a good life. Just utterly despicable. Hope she never gets out of prison EVER

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  5. Yes it was a mistake. I’m surprised they just didn’t take her to jail. Then arrange for animal control to enter the house after she was booked.
    I’m not passing judgment on the officers. They made a judgment call at the time. And she was wanted in Texas for embezzling funds. Not a violent crime. She did say she wasn’t going back to jail. So might be more to the story than just a white collar crime. She had that gun and was obviously not hesitant to use it

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  6. Espero que los perritos no hayan resultado heridos por la incompetencia de los policías y la maldad de la sucia esa se que fueron amables porque tenia el trasero grande y así terminan esas cosas mal…

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  7. The biggest mistake they made was taking the female back home they should have let animal control take the dogs out and that was also a rookie mistake of letting here go out of sights in her home

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  8. What about the dogs??? Are they okay? I really hope nothing happened to them!

    But I’m glad that every officer survived! My Sgt. Hill live a happy life, even with permanent damage to his leg. ❤️💙❤️💙

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