Man Flees Courtroom During Sentencing, Adds 20 Weeks In Jail

BEAVERTON, OR — After fleeing the courtroom during his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, a Beaverton man was given an additional 140 days in jail — extending his previously-expected 90-day sentence to 230 days in the Washington County Jail.

Cory Alan Hergenrader, 34, was attending a sentencing hearing just before 11 a.m. May 30 at the Beaverton Municipal Court for a driving while suspended misdemeanor charge he received in November 2017 when he spontaneously ran out of the courtroom — ostensibly to avoid going to jail, according to Beaverton police officials.

Hergenrader was reportedly not in police custody before the hearing.

Beaverton officers caught Hergenrader about 11 minutes later, after he ran through the nearby Fred Meyer store and Subaru car dealership by Southwest Canyon Road and Southwest 115th Avenue.

Hergenrader will still get credit for time served, even though his actions helped him tack 20 weeks onto his sentence.

Image via Beaverton Police Department