Serial Southeast Portland ‘pot shop’ armed robber arrested

In a story last year, THE BEE told how Portland Police Bureau Robbery Unit detectives were looking for a serial armed robber who was targeting Southeast marijuana shops.

Of the five such shops robbed at gunpoint by a suspect, believed to be 42-year-old Cory James Jackson, two of the holdups were in the Reed neighborhood, and one was in the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood.

In addition to these crimes, Jackson was also a suspect in numerous felony crimes in Washington, Arizona, and Nevada.

During a Portland Police Stolen Vehicle Operation on May 21, 2024, Vancouver Police Department officers notified the Portland that Jackson was driving into Oregon. The PPB officers, who happened to be in the Jantzen Beach area at the time, located Jackson in the Tomahawk Island Best Buy store – evacuated the business – and took him into custody, “without incident”.

Jackson was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on May 22 at 3:01 a.m. on “multiple warrants” – 46 in total – in connection with the Southeast “pot shop” holdups, as well as numerous armed robberies and other crimes – including Felony charges such as Kidnapping in the First Degree.

Currently Jackson is lodged in Inverness Jail in lieu of $240,000 combined bail.