Man arrested for Sex Abuse after harassing women

On January 22, there were numerous calls for service involving a man in a van who was reported to have harassed women at locations across the city.

At approximately 8:32 a.m. Eugene Police received a call about a disorderly man at the Dari Mart, 111 West 1^st Avenue, who was reported to have aggressively asked a woman for sex and groped her. When he was told to leave, the suspect moved his van outside of the store and continued to stare toward the victim.

At 8:59 Eugene Police were dispatched to E. 18^th Avenue and Patterson Street after a report of a man chasing a woman, threatening to kill her. The woman had run into traffic form him and to get help. Bystanders came to her aid, and she accepted an emergency ride offer from one. Central Lane 911 dispatch advised the suspect in the call may be the same one from an earlier call, where the suspect groped a woman in the 100 block of Monroe Street and fled. The suspect was in a van and officers located it near W. 18th Avenue and Chambers Street. The driver, 35-year-old Kerry Michael Diamond, was taken into custody without incident.

During an investigation, officers found another case that occurred shortly before Diamond was taken into custody. A woman had called 911 about being flagged down by a woman running with her two dogs. The woman had been approached by a man matching Diamond's description and did not comply with Diamond's requests to release her dogs. The suspect is reported to have gotten out of his van and chased her. She didn't have her phone at the time, and a bystander called for her. She later contacted police to report the incident.

Diamond lodged at Lane County Jail on a charge of Sex Abuse in the Third Degree, as well as three counts of Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree, and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

Cases 25-01210 and 2501213