Man with knife arrested at Tacoma Street MAX station

When a man started threatening people at the MAX Light Rail Orange Line Bybee Station, under the Bybee Bridge – on Wednesday morning, May 29 – several of those fare-paid riders waiting at the platform called the 9-1-1 Center to report him.

Both Portland Police Bureau (PPB) and TriMet Transit Police were dispatched at 10:37 a.m. – however, before officers arrived, the man boarded a southbound train. But he only made it to the next station.

“The subject was met by PPB and Transit Police officers at the MAX Tacoma Street Station,” Multnomah County Sheriff's Office Communications Coordinator Christina Kempster later told THE BEE.

“The officers discovered that the subject’s backpack contained multiple knives,” Kempster continued. “The person was arrested on multiple warrants, as well as charges of providing false information, and resisting arrest.

“In the course of taking the subject into custody, a Transit Police Officer was injured in the leg by one of those knives. The injured officer is a Multnomah County Sheriff’s Deputy – and that deputy went to a local hospital for treatment.”

But Kempster declined to identify the person who had been arrested.