A 27-year-old man who investigators said bashed in car windshields, shattered a window and an ATM at two Pearl District banks, then threw a burning flare into a Portland police car during anti-Trump and May Day protests was sentenced this week to three years of probation.

John Barton Elliott was caught on video in some of these acts on Nov. 10, 2016, two days after Donald Trump was elected president. The vandalism included joining others in swinging baseball bats or sticks at the cars at Broadway Toyota on the east end of the Broadway Bridge, shattering the window of Chase Bank and smashing an ATM screen at Umpqua Bank in the Pearl District, investigators said.

Police weren’t able to identify Elliott until May 1, 2017, when he showed up to May Day protests in downtown Portland and joined at least one other man in throwing lighted flares later found in the back of a heavily vandalized police SUV parked near Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison Street.

Elliott was arrested, and police used his distinctive eyeglasses and bike messenger bag to link him to the Nov. 10 crimes.

Elliott worked as a bike messenger, had attended four years of college and had no previous criminal history except for a misdemeanor shoplifting conviction in 2016.

Elliott pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree arson.

As part of Elliott's sentence, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Dahlin ordered Elliott to pay back many thousands of dollars for the damage he caused, including $12,000 to the police SUV. He also must complete 144 hours of community service and refrain from attending protests with the left-wing activist group Antifa.

Although Elliott was sentenced to no jail time, he spent about three weeks in jail after his arrest. If he fails to abide by the terms of his sentence, Elliott could be sent to prison for two years.

Elliott received a lighter sentence than some other exceptionally destructive demonstrators arrested for crimes committed during anti-Trump protests in November 2016 or the May Day protest in 2017. But prosecutor Nathan Vasquez said in agreeing to Elliott’s sentence, his office took into account Elliott’s relatively light criminal history and that he was responsible for property damage but not endangering lives.

Damion Feller, 23, was sentenced to five years in prison for throwing lighted flares into a Target store entrance and the police SUV that Elliott also targeted. Police say he also threw a flare into a Dumpster and started a large fire in the middle of the street. Vasquez said unlike Elliott, Feller put people's lives at risk by throwing a flare into the Target store's only public entrance and exit.

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-- Aimee Green