PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lawyer for a Portland, Oregon firefighter says he denies kidnapping allegations and looks forward to proving his innocence.
Douglas Bourland made his first appearance in court Wednesday. He was arraigned Wednesday on three counts of first-degree kidnapping. He was ordered to have no contact with his two co-defendants as well as the man whom they are charged with forcing at gunpoint into a black Range Rover from outside the Ruth’s Chris Steak House in downtown Portland over the weekend.
A probable cause affidavit says the men abducted the man because they thought he burglarized a marijuana business Bourland opened last year.