News Release from: Clackamas Co. Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Office seeks public's help to ID shoplifting suspects
Posted: Oct. 13, 2009, 2:53 p.m.
Surveillance images of suspects (.bmp format):
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case # 09-30902
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 at 2:34 p.m., loss-prevention officers at the Sears store located at 11800 SE 82nd Avenue in Happy Valley observed three three young males entering the Sears tool department and selecting a large pair of bolt-cutters, a Craftsman mechanics tool set, and a set of Craftsman wrenches.
These selected items were then strategically placed at another location inside the store by a male suspect wearing a dark-colored t-shirt.
A few minutes later, this same suspect in the dark-colored t-shirt was observed by security returning to the strategically placed tools, then rapidly departing the store with the merchandise without paying for them.
This suspect then fled the Sears Store with the merchandise and got into a waiting vehicle. Security personnel observed that this vehicle was occupied by all the subjects observed together minutes earlier inside the store selecting the stolen items.
The suspect vehicle was described by store security as a black 1994-type Acura Integra with no front license plate displayed. This vehicle was reportedly driven by the suspect male wearing a white t-shirt.
The male subject wearing a yellow t-shirt inside the store was observed riding in the rear passenger seat of this fleeing vehicle.
TIPS SOUGHT
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to identify the suspects believed responsible for the theft of these tools from the Sears Store on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 at approximately 2:34 p.m. -- resulting in a crime classified as Theft in the Second Degree.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office urges anyone with information concerning this crime to contact the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office's confidential Tip Line -- by phone at 503-723-4949 or by using the online e-mail form. Reference Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case # 09-30902.
The public can also submit crime-tip text messages to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office from a cell phone. All users have to do is send a text message to CRIMES (274637 on your phone keypad) -- with the keyword CCSO as the first word in the message body. Important reminder: Please do not send emergency messages using the text-messaging system -- in case of an emergency, call 911.
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case # 09-30902
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Jim Strovink, Detective
Public Information Officer
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office