PORTLAND AREA MAN SENTENCED TO 70 MONTHS PRISON FOR SHOOTING ANOTHER WITH A DART - 08/26/25

PORTLAND AREA MAN SENTENCED TO 70 MONTHS PRISON FOR SHOOTING ANOTHER WITH A DART

Case number: 24CR55909 and 24CR38394

Portland, OR- Multnomah County Circuit Judge Benjamin Souede sentenced 40-year old Joseph Naes to 70 months prison on August 25, 2025, for shooting another man with a barbed dart on a Max platform and for a separate case in which Naes assaulted and harassed his wife in a domestic violence incident.

Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Julian Samuels prosecuted the case for the state.

After the conviction and sentencing he said “this was an attack of unnecessary violence and hopefully this sentence brings a sense of closure and accountability to the victim and the community.”

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office would like to thank Transit Police, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, the Gresham Police Department and for their outstanding work on this case.

We would also like to highlight and recognize the work of MCDA Victim Advocate Alex Bidwell for his kindness and compassion toward the victims in this case.

The Facts:

On July 17, 2024 Joseph Naes used a sling shot to fire a six inch barbed dart into the back of a man named Logan Sharp. The two did not know each other but Sharp had broken up a domestic violence incident between Naes and his partner a week earlier.

In the dart shooting incident, both men happened to be on the Max platform at 16155 Burnside Street at the same time. The dart hit the victim in the back below his right shoulder. He was rushed to the hospital with a collapsed lung. He survived the injury.  Naes ran off after the incident but was later identified by investigators using police records and video from the Max platform.

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