CC SO 2021 Ye ar in R e v ie w•InvestigationsC C S O ’ S I N V E S T I G ATIO N S DIVISIO NNotable Cases of 2021Homicide arrestMarch-December 2021On March 3, 2021, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputiesresponded to a report of a deceased adult male at a single-familyresidence in unincorporated Milwaukie. The deceased — identified as Jimmy Pearson, 63 — had lived alone at the house. Oneof Pearson’s employees found him after going to the residence tocheck on him after he hadn’t been seen at work.Responding deputies quickly determined that this was ahomicide scene, and Sheriff’s Office detectives and CSItechnicians responded.A lucky break helped detectives quickly develop a suspect. OnMarch 1 — the night of the murder, well before the discovery ofPearson’s body — a Milwaukie Police officer pulled over 23-yearold Nistasha Rose Tate for a routine traffic violation. Items lateridentified as belonging to Pearson were found inside the vehicle— and the MPD officer also seized a firearm that would later beidentified as the murder weapon.16Using forensic analysis, detectives also learned Tate had visited Pearson on the date of the murder, March 1. She was now theprime suspect, and over the following weeks, detectives, workingwith partner agencies including the U.S. Marshals Service, beganbuilding a case against Tate and tracing her whereabouts.Authorities soon learned she had traveled to North Carolina and then to Florida. On April 12, working with Tampa PD,members of the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF)arrested Tate as she was about to board a Greyhound bus inHillsborough County. That same day, CCSO detectives traveledto Florida to interview Tate at the Hillsborough CountyOrient Road Jail.Resolution: Thanks to a thorough, coordinated effort on thiscase by investigators across several agencies, closure camequickly. On Dec. 16, Nistasha Tate pled guilty to Murder in the2nd Degree and was sentenced to life in prison, with thepossibility of parole after 25 years.
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