November 21, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Jason Robert Steiner, 34, was arraigned on murder, attempted murder, and unlawful use of a weapon charges stemming from the October shooting at La Mota dispensary in North Portland. Case Facts Details of the case can be found in the Affidavit of Probable […]
November 20, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Eric Douglas Alexander, 42, was arraigned on attempted murder, arson, stalking, and endangerment charges stemming from the prolonged harassment of a former intimate partner and the arson of the home of her employers. Case Facts In mid-October 2024, a friend of Alexander reported […]
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that William Sanchez Stevenson, 27, was sentenced to 90 months in prison after pleading guilty on charges related to the trafficking of controlled substances, primarily fentanyl. Case Facts Between June 2022 and January 2024, police caught Stevenson numerous times engaged in the sale and commercial possession of […]
November 8, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Randy Craig Sturdevant, 43, was sentenced by a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge to 25 months of prison in relation to an August 2021 assault on a Tri-Met bus. Case Facts On August 20, 2021, a man on board a Tri-Met bus punched […]
November 6, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Christopher Norwood Young, 35, was sentenced to 81 months in prison after pleading guilty on charges related to operating a chop shop, which was discovered during a multi-agency Stolen Vehicle Operation. Case Facts In May 2023, officers from PPB’s Stolen Vehicle Operation attempted […]
November 6, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Levi Denison, 30, was sentenced yesterday by a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge to 120 months prison in relation to numerous incidents across seven cases occurring between 2022 and 2024. Plea and Sentencing Deputy District Attorney Anthony Dundon and Deputy District Attorney Cody Linderholm […]
October 31, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Colby Dion Benson, 40, was sentenced yesterday by a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Case Facts On September 11, 2020, Portland Police Bureau officers responded to a reported shooting at the intersection […]
October 23, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Devin Moore Rose, 32, was sentenced by a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for the October 2023 shooting death of Justin Graver in Gresham. Case Facts On October 7, 2023 Gresham […]
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office today published transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the death investigation of Richard Shawn Perez. Upon the grand jury’s return of a “not true bill” in this matter, MCDA filed a motion with the presiding court to create and release a transcript of the recorded grand jury proceedings […]
October 22, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Anthony Kenneth Hill, 33, was arraigned on charges of Attempted Sexual Abuse in the First Degree and Felony Public Indecency in relation to an assault on a female jogger in the Springwater Corridor in September 2024. Case Facts On September 4, 2024, the […]