December 3, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today released the 2024 Multnomah County Corrections Grand Jury Report. Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 132.440 requires an annual grand jury inquiry into the condition and management of every adult and youth correctional facility in the county. These facilities are: Multnomah County Detention Center (operated by the […]
November 26, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge sentenced Teddy Wayne Hall, Sr. to 240 months for the November 2022 shooting death of Raja McCallister in southeast Portland’s Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood. Case Facts On November 23, 2022, Portland Police Bureau responded to reports of a shooting […]
November 25, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Thursday, November 21, a Multnomah County jury found Laura Marie Patterson, 48, guilty of crimes stemming from a November 2023 incident wherein she fired shots into the ceiling of the terminal of the Portland International Airport (PDX). Case Facts On November 14, 2023, Port […]
November 22, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County jury found Jaylon Jamall Benjamin, 30, guilty on all counts for the October 2023 car crash that killed James and Lisa Johnson in Northeast Portland. Case Facts On October 28, 2023, while driving a U-Haul pick-up truck eastbound on NE […]
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 […]