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‘TriMet barber’ sentenced to 364 days in jail

By Jayati Ramakrishnan, The Oregonian
Published: July 16, 2019, 10:17pm

PORTLAND — The first person to ever receive a lifetime ban from all TriMet services was sentenced Tuesday to nearly a year in jail, after being accused of dozens of instances throughout the past decade of inappropriately touching women and cutting their hair on public transit.

Jared Walter, 32, was sentenced in Multnomah County Circuit Court to 364 days in jail, five years of probation, and required mental health and sex offender treatment. Walter, who is already a registered sex offender, was convicted on two counts of interfering with public transportation and two counts of harassment.

Nicknamed “the TriMet barber” for his cutting of women’s hair, Walter has also been convicted several times since 2009 of masturbating into or gluing women’s hair while on public transit.

Walter took a plea deal, which both victims in the case agreed to, and Judge Thomas Ryan dismissed charges of third-degree sexual abuse.

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