Marcos Cordova Meza was no stranger to the night scene at Portland’s landmark Sandy Hut Bar & Lounge after nearly two years working shifts as a barback, helping wash dishes and stock liquor.
While it sometimes got rowdy, he said, he’d never known it to get violent. He certainly never felt in danger pulling shifts at what he called “one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.”
That all changed on the night of Oct. 10, when prosecutors and police allege that 30-year-old Marchelle Quiana Swafford fractured his teeth and knocked him unconscious with a slug to the mouth…