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  • Convenience store owner who sold drugs across from Dawson Park sentenced

    Convenience store owner who sold drugs across from Dawson Park sentenced

    Donald Sharma, former owner of Stop N Go Mini Mart near Dawson Park was sentenced to 13 months in prison on July 1, after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of heroin in substantial quantities. On October 2, he will be sentenced on a second count of attempted unlawful delivery of fentanyl in…

  • Mini Mart near Dawson Park busted

    Mini Mart near Dawson Park busted

    A Portland Police Special Response team recently seized numerous firearms and a large quantity of drugs including cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin from a store across the street from Dawson Park. The owner, Donald Sharma, 43, of Beaverton, was arrested on drug charges and transported to the Multnomah County Detention Center. Community members came forward to the…