A grand jury indicted Jared Walter, the convicted sex offender known as the “TriMet Barber” for crimes committed on the transit system, on more than 30 new charges Thursday. The 36-year-old is accused of filming multiple women while they were using public restrooms in April.
Walter faces 32 counts of first-degree invasion of personal privacy, one count of first-degree theft and one of second-degree theft, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
Walter, who received a lifetime ban from TriMet in 2017 after numerous arrests for cutting, touching or masturbating into the hair of female passengers, was arrested and booked into Multnomah County jail on May 2, where he remained Saturday, according to jail records.
Walter was arrested after a TriMet employee reviewing surveillance footage spotted him walking onto the Southwest 18th Avenue MAX platform April 26.
On April 20, Portland Community College security officers responded to reports from a student whose backpack was missing. The student said she was using the restroom when someone entered the bathroom and took her bag off the coat hooks. The college’s security footage caught the person, later identified as Walter, entering the bathroom and taking the backpack, the DA’s office said.
Between April 26 and April 30, police received multiple reports of a person entering women’s bathrooms and recording women in different businesses in Portland. Investigators tracked the person using surveillance footage and witness statements, and identified the man as Walter.
Walter’s criminal history dates to 2010, when multiple TriMet passengers reported that he had snipped off chunks of their hair while on the bus. He was sentenced to 26 months in prison in January, 2011.
In 2013, Walter was arrested again for masturbating into female bus passengers’ hair. Walters was sentenced to two years in prison.
Most recently, Walter was sentenced to 22 months in prison after pleading guilty in July 2021 to trying to take a photo or video of a woman inside a bathroom inside Northeast Portland’s Lloyd Center mall.
Walter will appear in court next Monday, court records show.
– Austin De Dios; adedios@oregonian.com; @austindedios; 503-319-9744
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