Millions of dollars of stolen and damaged property, hundreds of charges, 15 suspects and a monthslong spree of “organized criminal operations”: that’s the bald outlines of a sprawling series of indictments that the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Charlie Weiss told reporters at a press conference that all of the cases stem from marijuana-business burglaries between February and November 2025.
At the press gathering, Weiss and District Attorney Nathan Vasquez named only the two alleged ringleaders – Anthony Lunetta, 36, and Michael Kessler, 28 – of what they said is a 15-member burglary group.
Lunetta faces a total of 58 charges, including multiple charges of first-degree burglary, first-degree theft and conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary.
Kessler — whose arrest The Oregonian/OregonLive reported in June 2025 — faces more than a dozen charges, including first- and second-degree burglary, first-degree aggravated theft, first-degree criminal mischief, possession of a stolen vehicle, methamphetamine possession and being a felon in possession of guns and body armor, court records show.
When asked about the other members of the alleged 15-person burglary ring, Weiss provided The Oregonian/OregonLive with a list of eight names: Jaedyn Cazares, Deankevious Kidd, Jamarion Hinton, Manwell Castro, Mickeal Gordon, De Sean Sims, Alejandro Diaz and Ovell Webb. Weiss declined to identify the other five people who have been indicted, and he said many of the case files are still sealed.
Weiss added that the property damage and theft of goods were so extensive that the final accounting hasn’t been finished, but he said it was safe to say the total losses across all the cases was in excess of $2 million.
Court files for most of the cases are under seal so few details are available, but Weiss said the suspects “ransacked” businesses, sometimes after running cars through doors and destroying security systems.
Security footage of a Feb. 14, 2025, incident shared with The Oregonian/OregonLive by the Portland Police Bureau shows someone ramming a marijuana business’s door open with a Hyundai sedan, before four masked people — including one with a crowbar — get out of the car and head into the building.
Portland police spokesperson Mike Benner didn’t identify the store that was burglarized in the footage, saying only that it happened “along South Macadam Avenue.”
Cannabis Industry Alliance of Oregon executive director Nikki Terzief said at the press conference that many of the companies hit by the alleged burglary ring were “mom-and-pop shops.”
“They are hard-working Oregonians,” she said of the business owners. “These are folks that have been victimized and have struggled to determine whether or not they could survive.”
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