MAX Train Drug Use Arrest
(Portland, OR) -- The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office has made the first arrest of a person allegedly using drugs on a MAX train. On January 1st, a new law took effect in Oregon making it illegal to use drugs on mass transit. A sheriff's deputy was in plain clothes riding the train and saw the suspect use a blow torch to light and smoke suspected fentanyl. Bethany Zipfel was arrested. Deputies seized burnt foil, plastic straws and hollowed pens that can be used to smoke fentanyl.



