About an hour before Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies were scheduled to evict him on May 16, Garrett Repp allegedly started a fire in his third-floor unit that destroyed the 113-year-old May Apartments in Southwest Portland, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Repp pleaded not guilty Friday at Multnomah County’s Justice Center to 15 counts of first-degree arson, 16 counts of reckless endangerment and first-degree criminal mischief.