'Do you want to die today?': Man terrorized neighbors with a knife, stun baton, and bow and arrow, DA says

An Oregon antheral accused of threatening his neighbors with a assortment of weapons has been taken into custody connected respective felony charges.

Dustin Rotbart, 40, is successful custody astatine the Multnomah County Detention Center wherever helium is being held without bail aft authorities said helium repeatedly threatened his neighbors. According to tribunal documents reviewed by Law&Crime, Rotbart was arrested connected Feb. 23 aft constabulary received a telephone from a concern successful Portland astir a antheral banging connected windows and causing a disturbance.

But it was not the archetypal clip radical complained astir Rotbart's alleged behavior. Less than 10 days earlier, connected Feb. 14, Rotbart allegedly pulled a weapon astatine the aforesaid concern and threatened the patrons, asking them, "Do you privation to get stabbed? Do you privation to dice today?"

According to tribunal documents, constabulary said a bystander who witnessed the Feb. 14 incidental told officers that helium attempted to disarm Rotbart, who not lone had a knife, but besides a stun baton. Surveillance video reportedly captured Rotbart being pushed oregon shoved by the bystander. Rotbart past allegedly pursued the bystander, who ran backmost to his apartment, with the weapon and stun baton. The confrontation seemingly ended erstwhile Rotbart's demeanor changed and the 2 men high-fived each other.

The doorman astatine the flat wherever the bystander lived corroborated the bystander's mentation of events to police.

On Feb. 15, constabulary said residents successful different vicinity reported a antheral who they said was aiming a bow and arrow astatine assorted homes and people. Police aboriginal identified that antheral arsenic Rotbart. Police wrote that Rotbart engaged successful akin behaviour a week prior, but helium was not taken into custody due to the fact that helium was astatine his ain property.

Minutes aft the lawman who responded to the bow and arrow telephone left, dispatchers received different telephone astir a pistillate who said her neighbour — Rotbart — tried to deed her with his car. Surveillance video from the country allegedly caught Rotbart's conveyance accelerating toward a radical of people.

Police wrote successful the charging documents that Rotbart's erratic and allegedly convulsive behaviour was seemingly driven by "psychedelic mushrooms" and his woman filing for divorce. According to police, Rotbart's woman kicked him retired of their house, and helium responded by breaking down the doorway and throwing a publication astatine her. An AR-15 firearm was reportedly recovered successful his conveyance astatine the time.

On Jan. 19, constabulary responded to a telephone astir shots fired, allegedly by Rotbart. When constabulary arrived, Rotbart, reportedly precocious connected mushrooms, took his apparel off. Police seemingly recovered mushrooms successful the car, and a hunt of his store yielded an AR-15 firearm and a revolver. The adjacent day, a justice prohibited Rotbart from possessing deadly weapons, penning successful a ruling that determination was "clear and convincing grounds that [Rotbart] presents [the] hazard of termination and/or causing carnal wounded to different idiosyncratic successful the contiguous oregon adjacent future."

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KOIN reported that a missive from seven of Rotbart's neighbors expressed superior concerns astir vicinity information owed to his alleged behavior. The missive read, "Over the past respective months, our assemblage has collectively witnessed and experienced a sustained signifier of threatening and intimidating behavior, including but not constricted to: Rapidly discharging astir 20 rounds from a firearm from his house, verbally assaulting a neighbor, and recurring large parties astatine aboriginal greeting hours."

The neighbors wrote that Rotbart's alleged behaviour caused them to alteration their mundane routines and support their children inside.

Rotbart was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center connected Feb. 23 connected 3 counts of unlawful usage of a weapon, 3 counts of menacing, 2 counts of burglary, and 1 number of disorderly conduct. He was ordered during a tribunal proceeding connected Tuesday to beryllium held without bail. His adjacent tribunal day was scheduled for April 13.