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 […]
October 17, 2024 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office today published transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the death investigation of Tyrone Lee Johnson II. 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 […]
October 14, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that Chantail Williams, 40, entered a guilty plea on one count of aggravated theft in the first degree in relation to her role in a fraud scheme resulting in a 1.5 million dollar loss for the City of Portland in 2022. Case Facts In […]
October 9, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that today, Robert Joseph Bryant, 68, was arraigned in a Multnomah County Circuit Court on charges including kidnapping, sexual abuse, and coercion in relation to the September abduction of an intellectually disabled adult woman from a care home in the Centennial neighborhood. At a hearing […]
October 4, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County judge sentenced Robert Arthur Plympton, now 61, to life in prison for the 1980 murder of Barbara Tucker near Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. In early 2021, Plympton was identified via DNA that was found on Tucker’s body, and […]
October 3, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County jury found Garrett Repp, 32, guilty on 55 counts of arson, criminal mischief, recklessly endangering another person, and animal cruelty related to the May 2023 fire that destroyed the May Apartments in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. Case Facts On May […]
Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Ryan Poffenberger, 37, has entered a new plea in six cases. Five cases stem from repeated instances in which he targeted local retailers, and one from a separate incident in which he fired a gun into a crowd in May 2024. Case Details Poffenberger was involved […]