The man who, according to police, according to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, is pepper spray after aggressively confronting him, is a partner at a local law firm and heir to Alpenrose Dairy.
According to Cary Randall Cadonau, 48, the mayor apparently housed the mayor with a cellphone camera when he left a bar in Southwest Portland on Sunday night, according to an updated police report released Tuesday.
Cadonau did not immediately return a call for comment.
Wheeler told police that the man who confronted him and former mayor Sam Adams outside the McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery & Public House on Southwest Sunset Boulevard was not wearing a mask.
That’s when Wheeler blew him in the face with pepper spray, the mayor said.
Police said they identified Cadonau after he returned to the bar on Monday and asked a driver for safety supplies and a copy of Wheeler’s restaurant page.
According to the police report, Cadonau did not give his full name and contact information.
A police officer interviewed Cadonau on Monday afternoon. He told the officer he is a lawyer and he is reluctant to discuss the matter involving the mayor, the report said.
Cadonau told the officer he believes Wheeler should be held responsible for the incident, but when the officer asked why, Cadonau would not say.
“I asked him several times if he wanted to talk about the incident, share his video recordings or share his side of the story, but he did not want to say more,” Officer Matt Miller wrote in the report.
Cadonau is a partner at Brownstein Rask, a prominent mid-sized law firm in downtown Portland. His practice includes property rights, personal injury and criminal defense, according to the firm’s website.
“Cary enjoys making creative decisions about disputes,” reads his company bio.
Cadonau, a great-grandson of the founder of Alpenrose Dairy in Southwest Portland, was also one of the heirs of the company that was locked in a bitter legal dispute with family members.
He and siblings Carl Cadonau III and Tracey Cadonau McKinnon sued their aunts and cousins in 2019 to stop the sale of the dairy.
However, a judge did not want to block the sale with an order and said the three were unlikely to win their case during the trial.
This is an evolving story. Please come and check for updates.
– Shane Dixon Kavanaugh; 503-294-7632
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