PORTLAND MUGSHOTS OF MATTHEW JOSEPH MEDLIN BECAME A VIRAL RECORD OF ARRESTS AND ADDICTION ACROSS 14 YEARS PORTLAND, Oregon — Booking photos of Matthew Joseph Medlin, released by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, were widely circulated in the mid-2010s as a timeline of one man’s arrests from age 18 in 2002 through 2016. The later pictures show heavy eyebrow tattoos, teardrop ink near the eyes, scars, and the physical wear of repeated jail stays and, by his own statements to officers, long methamphetamine use. Media compared the set to Oregon’s older “Faces of Meth” campaign, which used booking photos as a public warning. The photos document bookings, not a medical study. In January 2016 he was arrested after a hours-long rail-yard standoff. Officers said he threw debris and injected meth while they waited him out. In July a judge gave jail, intensive probation, and a path toward mental-health court instead of a longer prison term. On Aug. 31, 2016, he was arrested again after police said he damaged cars, jumped on a cruiser, climbed a tree, tried to bite an officer, and licked a man’s face. He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, attempted assault on an officer, disorderly conduct, and harassment. Reports put that as about his 16th arrest. He also had a 2013 sex-offense conviction and a 2014 walk-away from Columbia River Correctional Institution, ending at a Jack in the Box. Public records easily found in this search stop around those 2016 cases. The images remain online as a cautionary collage. They do not replace treatment, court files, or whatever became of him after that year.