A Portland man, who was issued the first-ever lifetime ban from Trimet after dozens of sex crimes, was arrested again Wednesday, according to court records.

Jared Walter, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after officers responded to the 2800 block of North Gantenbein Avenue. A woman reported that she was being followed by a man later identified as Walter, police said.

The woman told investigators Walter had “touched her in a sexually intimate part of her body. The female after being touched found white substance on her leg and hair,” police said in a statement.

Walter was being held on charges of misdemeanor sexual abuse.

Jared Walter (MCSO)Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

In the past decade, Walter’s been convicted, charged or implicated in dozens of incidents on the transit system where he’s cut, masturbated into, glued or otherwise touched women’s hair. Those crimes led to the TriMet Barber moniker.

Walter was arrested March 26, 2019, and charged with inappropriately touching multiple women on TriMet. He was sentenced to one year in prison, but was released from jail in November due to good behavior and working at the jail while in custody.

In April, TriMet General Manager Doug Kelsey issued a statement saying he’d decided to ban Walter for life. TriMet previously banned Walter for five years in 2013. Kelsey said the lifetime ban was “not made lightly.”

“We don’t have any indication that it’s TriMet related,” said Roberta Altstadt, a TriMet spokeswoman.

Walter was expected to make a court appearance Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m.

-- Kale Williams

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