A notorious Portland nightclub owner convicted of murdering a 21-year-old employee in 1990 was taken into custody in Clackamas County on Friday, according to jail records.
Larry Hurwitz, 71, is being held at the Clackamas County Jail on charges of fourth-degree assault on a domestic partner and parole violation. He was apprehended by the Sandy Police Department.
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Hurwitz owned Portland’s Starry Night nightclub in the late 1980s. He was convicted of the murder of Timothy Moreau, whose remains were never discovered. According to court documents, Hurwitz was arrested in 1998, eight and a half years after Moreau’s death. He pleaded no contest to a murder charge and served eight years in prison.
Hurwitz has had legal issues as recently as 2019, when he was detained in Huntington Beach, California, on charges of carrying and distributing narcotics. Hurwitz was discovered with four pounds of cocaine and more than $300,000 in cash, according to The Portland Tribune. Hurwitz pled guilty to drug and illicit money charges in that case in 2021, according to the Tribune, and the Oregon Board of Parole sentenced him to six months in jail for breaking his post-release conditions.
