CORBETT, Ore. — A man suspected of assaulting a woman at her Corbett home gave himself up to police Wednesday morning.
Pavel Mikhay, 26, was considered armed and dangerous, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said
This ended a massive search Tuesday that also led to the close of Corbett School. He was spotted by a Corbett resident in the Thousand Acres area about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The assault happened around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 33400 block of Columbia River Highway. The victim, a woman, was injured and taken to a local hospital. The identity of the victim has not been released. Police said she suffered non-life threatening injuries. Mikhay and the victim were strangers, according to police.
A deputy responding to the call was traveling west on the highway when he saw Mikhay driving east. Mikhay saw the officer, parked the vehicle in a driveway and fled on foot, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities set up a perimeter with a half-mile radius in the area of Old Historic Columbia River Highway. Officers from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Gresham Police Department and Oregon State Police searched the area. White said about 35 officers were searching for the suspect. Authorities reopened the area at 3 p.m.
"It's a rural area, which makes the search more difficult," White said. "We have one of our K-9 units tracking, but with high winds, it makes it difficult."
Two teens told KGW that the suspect pulled into their driveway Tuesday morning before jumping out of the vehicle and running from authorities.
"You just don't expect that to wake up to on a Tuesday morning,” said Ginger Duncan.
She said deputies were concerned that the man could have been trying to get inside the house or may have been hiding in the garage.
“There's plenty of stuff and wooded areas to go and hide,” said Eve Duncan. “It's terrorizing. You wouldn't think that this would be happening here, or to us.”
KGW's Christine Pitawanich contributed to this story.