Inmate charged with biting off deputy’s fingertip, arrested earlier for punching women, police, records say

Published 3:39 pm Tuesday, May 30, 2023

An inmate accused of biting off a jail deputy’s fingertip was identified in court records as the same man charged with randomly punching two women and attacking Portland police officers during his arrest earlier this month.

Brody A. Moore Jr., 26, faces charges in a May 15 report of a man chasing after female passersby and assaulting two women.

Alyssa Jackson told police she was sitting on a bench with her sister when Moore approached and “started harassing them,” according to a probable cause affidavit. Jackson said her sister told Moore to leave, but he punched her in the face multiple times as the sister’s children looked on, a prosecutor wrote.

Moore then punched Jackson in the face and kicked her after she went down, the affidavit alleges.

When police arrived, Moore slugged one officer twice in the jaw and injured another officer’s elbow, Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Brandon Riffel wrote in the affidavit. The court document identified the officers as Eric Weber and Garth Meyer.

Moore was charged with two counts each of assaulting a police officer, fourth-degree assault and one count of second-degree disorderly conduct in the case, records show.

Days later, on May 18, Moore was being transported between cells when he became “agitated” and started choking himself, spurring an unnamed deputy to send a gust of pepper spray into the cell, according to a separate probable cause affidavit.

Three deputies then rushed into the cell, where Moore sprang upon them from the top bunk and landed on Deputy Brian Flanagan, biting off the tip of the deputy’s pinkie finger in the struggle, according to the affidavit.

“(Flanagan) said it was the worst pain he ever felt,” a prosecutor wrote.

Moore also punched the two other deputies in the head and bit one of them in the hand before being subdued, according to the court document. He is charged with second-degree assault and three counts of assaulting an officer in the case, records show, and is being held without bail ahead of a release hearing.