PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A woman was arrested in Portland this week after allegedly stabbing multiple cars with a knife and setting one car on fire, completely engulfing it in flames.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, officers responded to the area of Southwest Barbur Blvd. at Southwest 26th Ave. on a 911 call about a woman running with a knife.
They found her at Southwest Spring Garden Street at Southwest Barbur Boulevard walking away from the officers with the knife in her hand. A crisis intervention officer soon arrived and helped to talk her into dropping the knife and surrendering.
Meanwhile, police said, officers were told about a car around the corner fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters arrived and put it out.
Officers later learned that the woman, Elishama M. Mathews, 42, had used the knife to stab two passing vehicles, causing dents and scratches. She then lit the parked vehicle on fire shortly before police arrived. No one was injured.
Mathews was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of Arson in the Second Degree, Menacing (2 counts), and Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree (2 counts).
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