February 14, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Frank Berte, 40, to 72 months in prison after he pled guilty to multiple charges from incidents that took place between 2021 and 2023. Deputy District Attorney Eric Pickard represented the State in Berte’s cases. Sentencing took […]
February 13, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt is voicing his support for legislation that will increase protections for crime victims. Today, the DA’s Policy Director, Aaron Knott, provided testimony to the Oregon House Committee on Judiciary in support of House Bill 4146. HB 4146 relates to the crime of unlawful dissemination of an […]
February 9, 2024 UPDATE: Today, Daniel Thomas Warren, 40, entered a plea on two charges relating to the assault of the owner of LoRell’s Chick Shack in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood in June 2023. Warren pled guilty to one count of Assault in the Third Degree and pled no contest to one count of Bias Crime […]
February 9, 2024 PORTLAND, Oregon – Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt released a list of cases impacted by the public defense crisis. The list includes felony cases dismissed by the JC3 court as a result of the crisis. In November, DA Mike Schmidt called the public defense crisis– defined by a lack of […]
February 7, 2024 UPDATE: Today, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Rima Ghandour sentenced Jonathan Hanna to 45 months in prison. Hanna was a person of interest for the Auto Theft Task Force, led by Deputy DA Cody Linderholm. As part of a plea agreement negotiated with the defendant and his counsel to resolve this case […]
February 5, 2024 At a media briefing today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and local leaders provided updates on the Auto Theft and Organized Retail Theft Task Forces, highlighting that the dedicated resources and collaboration are yielding positive public safety results. DA Schmidt was joined by Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson, Portland Police […]
February 2, 2024 PORTLAND, Oregon – Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt released a list of cases impacted by the public defense crisis. The list includes felony cases dismissed by the JC3 court as a result of the crisis. In November, DA Mike Schmidt called the public defense crisis– defined by a lack of […]
February 2, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a grand jury indicted Hugo Gomez-Soto, 48, on ten charges relating to the unlawful delivery of fentanyl and the subsequent death of a 29-year-old man to whom Gomez-Soto had sold fentanyl: One count of Criminally Negligent Homicide Four counts of Delivery of a […]
February 1, 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt today announced that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Zachary Michael Chronister, 29, to 150 months in prison for a 2022 incident in which he shot at a Portland Police Bureau officer while eluding. Incident On February 17, 2022, officers with the Portland Police Focused […]
January 31, 2024 Today Brianna Lace Workman, 33, was found to be guilty except for insanity on all five previously indicted charges for the December 2022 incident where she pushed a child onto the MAX train tracks at the Gateway Transit Center. Those charges are: one count of Attempted Assault in the First Degree, one […]