A 22-year-old man faces federal arson and attempted arson charges, accusing him of igniting a fire in a dumpster that was pushed against a city-owned building housing the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct and other businesses during a demonstration against racial injustice and police brutality in late June.
Gavaughn Gaquez Streeter-Hillerich made his first appearance Wednesday before a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Portland after his arrest in Vancouver, Washington, on Tuesday. He was caught on video setting a fire inside a tire placed on top of an overturned dumpster that was pushed up against the wall of the building at Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between Killingsworth and Emerson streets, at 2:16 a.m. on June 26, according to Cynthia M. Chang, a fire investigator with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.