Dirck WhiteClackamas County Sheriff’s Office A man suspected of murdering a Clackamas County weighmaster in 2014 is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in connection with the killing.
Dirck White, 44, was booked into the Clackamas County Jail Thursday from California, where he was sentenced last June to prison time for breaking into a car and shooting at police in Hollywood. White was injured in the shooting and it occurred nine months after Grady Waxenfelter’s death.
White faces accusations of murder and felon in possession of a firearm in the Oregon case. He is also a suspect in a child rape investigation in Pierce County, Washington, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
White is accused of fatally shooting Waxenfelter, 47, when the assistant weighmaster stopped White’s truck along Oregon 224 near Boring to check the trailer in February 2014.
That November, White fired at Los Angeles police officers after they spotted him trying to break into a car, the police department said. The officers fired back, hitting White in the arm and face. He survived the shooting, was treated at a hospital and then booked into jail.
In May 2016, a Los Angeles County jury found White guilty of attempted murder, assault on a police officer with a semiautomatic firearm, exhibiting a deadly weapon while resisting arrest, possession of a firearm by a felon and second-degree burglary of a vehicle. He was sentenced a month later to 38 years and eight months to life in prison.
Clackamas County hasn’t allowed weigh masters to conduct traffic stops since Waxenfelter’s death. The county was fined $2,100 in August 2014 by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division for not properly training and equipping weighmasters for such stops.
Clackamas County agreed to pay Waxenfelter’s widow $700,000 the next month to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. His family initially sought $2.75 million.
— Everton Bailey Jr.
ebailey@oregonian.com
503-221-8343; @EvertonBailey
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