Steven Teets biography: 13 things about Forest Grove, Oregon cop

Steven Christopher Teets is a white man from Oregon, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He lives in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. (a)
2. Aside from Forest Grove, he has lived in other parts of Oregon including Portland, Season, Hillsboro and Beaverton. (a)
3. He previously lived in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA. (a)
4. In 1999, he joined the U.S. Army. (b)
5. In 2009, he was honorably discharged as a U.S. Army staff sergeant. In the same year, he earned a bachelor’s degree. (b)
6. In 2010, he was hired as a Forest Grove Police Department officer. On September 17, 2010, he graduated from the Oregon Police Academy in Salem. (b) (c)
7. On June 30, 2013, while on patrol, he stopped Forest Grove resident Jason Thomas Zulaski, then 33, who later confessed to burglary. (c) (d)
8. On November 9, 2015, he helped save the life of Forest Grove resident Aziza Kibamba, who had suffered from a sudden cardiac arrest. On patrol, he carried a heart defibrillator in his cruiser and provided the electric shock needed to restart Kibamba’s dead heart before volunteer firefighters and an ambulance crew arrived. (c)
9. On December 13, 2015, he, his fellow Forest Grove Police Department officer Bradley Schuetz and reserve officer Waael Jared participated in the Shop with a Cop event with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. (c)
10. As a Forest Grove Police Department officer, he received an annual wage of $84,538 in 2015. (e)
11. While off-duty, he allegedly banged on a Black Lives Matter flag outside the garage of Mirella Castaneda’s house on 23rd Avenue in Forest Grove before charging at her and pounding on her front door at around 12:30 a.m. on October 31, 2021. He was allegedly was intoxicated. Schuetz and their fellow Forest Grove Police Department officer Amber Daniels responded to a theft in progress call at the residence. Instead of arresting him, Schuetz allegedly gave him a ride home. (b) (f) (g)
12. On November 1, 2020, he was arrested. (f)
13. He was 43 years old when Castaneda filed a lawsuit against him on November 10, 2020 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, accusing him of negligent trespass and invasion of privacy.. (b)

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SOURCES:

• a. Whitepages
• b. Oregon Live
• c. Forest Police Department
• d. Oregon Live
• e. GovSalaries
• f. Beaverton Police Department
• g. Portland Waterfront