‘Keep criminals off our transit system’: Additional prosecutor, investigators assigned to TriMet cases, part of $2.08M agreement

Two deputy district attorneys and up to two investigators will now be assigned to handle TriMet misdemeanor and felony cases.

PORTLAND, Ore. — As part of a joint effort to crack down on crimes committed on TriMet buses and trains, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office has agreed to assign an additional deputy district attorney and as many as two investigators to TriMet-related cases.

TriMet and the DA’s office have worked together since 1998. They recently agreed to an expanded contract that increases the number of deputy district attorneys assigned to TriMet-related crime from one to two. Another new stipulation in the expanded contract is that

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