A protester charged with violence outside Portland, Oregon’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility is a sex offender with a record of illegally failing to report as one, documents show.
Police charged 39-year-old Andrew Simmons with harassment and disorderly conduct on Friday and released him on bond within 24 hours after allegedly pushing a bike officer during a demonstration, according to a Portland Police Bureau statement and jail records. Simmons was also convicted in 2014 and 2020 of failing to report as a sex offender in Oregon, and the state dropped two more counts of the same charge against him in 2023, court documents first reported by journalist Andy Ngo indicate.
Records do not yet list an attorney for Simmons’ current case. It is unclear where and
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