‘Anarchist’ sees reduced conviction after series of Portland riots

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man convicted for his role in Portland anarchist riots in 2020 and 2021 is now seeing a reduced sentence, officials announced Tuesday.

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office said despite objections from their team, Judge Angela Lucero reduced the charges on July 11 against 35-year-old Darrell Kimberlin.

Officials said Kimberlin took part in a series of “anarchist” riots — which included vandalizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in Southeast Portland, along with a separate incident vandalizing a Chipotle, an Umpqua Bank, and property that belonged to Arcadia security company.

The District Attorney’s Office noted while the case was pending, Kimberlin doxxed law enforcement officers by putting their personal information online along with photos of the officers and their family members.

In November 2022, Kimberlin pleaded guilty to felony riot and criminal mischief charges as part of a plea deal. As part of the deal, he accepted a sentence that included paying nearly $50,000 in restitution to the damaged businesses.

The District Attorney’s Office said on July 11, 2025 that Judge Lucero decided to reduce his conviction from a felony to a misdemeanor.

“While the court has discretion by statute to reduce a class C felony to a class A misdemeanor, this reduction fails to reflect the immense damage caused by Mr. Kimberlin,” District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said in a statement Tuesday.

During Kimberlin’s plea in 2022, the District Attorney’s Office moved to dismiss his other charges in favor of a felony conviction. However, the reduction by Judge Lucero means Kimberlin can ask for all charges to be set aside or expunged later in 2025, the District Attorney’s Office explained.

The reduced conviction comes after Kimberlin’s attorney motioned for the reduced conviction in May, arguing that Kimberlin has completed 18 months of probation and has paid his entire restitution. Kimberlin’s attorney noted he has also kept full-time employment, bought a house and is not associating with anyone who has been protesting or engaging in destructive behavior.

The motion also pointed to Kimberlin’s sentencing hearing for property damage in 2021.

The motion stated, “At the sentencing hearing, Mr. Kimberlin, through his attorney, moved the Court to treat the Felony charge as a misdemeanor. At that time, The Hon. Lucero told Mr.
Kimberlin: ‘I am going to decline to treat this as misdemeanor at this point. I will say this,
that I will revisit this at the end of your probation and depending how successful you
have been throughout your probation I will kind of look at this again, at that point with
not only the time that you have been on pretrial release but depending on how you’ve
done on probation and have complied with things up to that point. I realize that the
restitution amount is significant and you may not have made a huge dent in the restitution
amount in that 18 months of probation should I follow the recommendation, but I will
evaluate what progress you have made at that point and give you kind of a fair
assessment at that point.'”