On August 4th, about a week after the grand jury testimony, Jason Short’s junior assistant, Chris Trotter, called to tell me I had been indicted. But he left out some important additional information.
Later that afternoon, I saw a post by Oregon Firearms Federation that had a link to the Oregonian article about me being indicted. I was now facing 21 charges total; 10 counts of Unlawful Use Of A Weapon, 10 counts of Menacing, and one count of Disorderly Conduct.
Chris Trotter didn’t tell me this.
Somehow the media got the information before me, wrote the story, published the story, it reached OFF, OFF published it, then I saw it about 30 minutes after OFF posted about it, and all of that happened before Chris Trotter or Jason Short told me the full truth.
I found out about this through the media instead of my own attorney informing me of it.
As you can imagine, this was quite distressing for me. I was now due in court the next day for a new arraignment on the new charges. Since Kate Molina had previously lied to the courts and used false information to get me tossed in jail, I had no idea what kind of sleazy tricks she had planned for this new proceeding.
Fortunately, the new arraignment went about as smooth as one could hope. They gave me some new paperwork, did not ask for more bail money, and did not ask that I be tossed back in jail.
What I found quite interested, however, was this indictment had listed ten alleged “victims”, yet none of their names were on the indictment. It only listed vague descriptions, such as “A man with a black backpack and tan pants.”
As I’ve since gone on to investigate countless other cases, this is the only instance I’ve ever seen where the actual names of the supposed “victims” were withheld from a defendant.
We’ll circle back to this a bit later on.