3/12/25 Multnomah County Judge Heidi Moawad accepted a guilty plea this morning from Jacob Fitzgerald, 24 years old and sentenced him to 34 years in prison. He pled guilty to multiple crimes, resolving three separate cases in Multnomah County and one in Washington County. Fitzgerald pled guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree, Attempted Murder […]
On March 7, 2025, a Multnomah County jury found Jamie Strahm guilty of two counts of Criminal Mistreatment in the First Degree. One count was for withholding the necessary and adequate food from the victim, who was between the ages of seven and eight at the time. The other count was for withholding the necessary […]
February 21, 2025 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office today announced that a Multnomah County jury found Michael Anthony Panarites, 40, guilty on a number of counts related to a years-long escalation of violence against a former intimate partner. Case Facts Click to read the case details in MCDA’s Preventative Detention Filing. Trial & Verdict […]
February 14, 2025 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office is closed today due to weather. This includes MCDA operations at the Multnomah County Courthouse, Justice Center, Juvenile Court, and East County Courthouse. All court events are cancelled, including grand jury, arraignments, jury duty, trials etc. If you had a scheduled court date today, the court […]
February 7, 2025 Today, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced that Julius Lee Whitehurst, 19, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of Manslaughter, Assault, and Unlawful Use of a Weapon stemming from a July 2023 car crash that took the lives of two teenage passengers who had been in a vehicle […]
February 4, 2025 Effective Tuesday, February 4th, in an effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office merged two internal offices that handled misdemeanor cases. The Misdemeanor Intake Unit is now folded into the Misdemeanor Trial Unit. The move is designed to give a single prosecutor ownership of each case. This […]
January 24, 2025 Today, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced that a jury found Eric Clayton Strietzel, 38, guilty on multiple charges in relation to a July 2023 incident in which he stole a tow truck and recklessly drove up to 84 miles per hour with the operator of the truck hanging onto the […]
January 24, 2025 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office is announcing the arrest and indictment of two members of a burglary ring that investigators believe includes ten or more people and has preyed upon more than a hundred businesses in the greater Portland area. Portland police are continuing to investigate the ring with the goal […]
January 15, 2024 Yesterday, on January 14, 2025, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Christopher Marshall sentenced Elijah Laray Thomas, 41, to 120 months– 10 years– in prison in relation to the December 11, 2019 shooting death of Quincy Gill in North Portland’s King neighborhood. After evading law enforcement for nearly three years, charges were issued […]
January 15, 2025 Earlier today, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office formally withdrew the previous administration’s consent to proceed with a petition to modify the murder sentence of Frank F. Swopes. At the last hearing on December 30, 2024, Judge Melvin Oden-Orr ordered the case to be reset to a later date and directed the […]