A person was arrested after police mentioned he stole a supply truck on Friday in Oregon whereas an worker was nonetheless contained in the truck’s cargo space.
Simply earlier than 4:30 a.m. on November 15, Milwaukie Police have been known as to a report of a piece cargo truck that had simply been stolen from the warehouse car parking zone.
The enterprise, Elephants Delicatessen, reported a supply truck was operating and being loaded by staff for the day when a person jumped into the truck.
Safety footage reveals the suspect moving into the truck cab and driving away, whereas an worker, who was nonetheless inside, is pressured to leap from the again of the shifting truck because it sped away.
“[The truck] started moving even faster and then that’s when I started to hold on to whatever I could hold on to,” Esmeralda, the worker working within the truck advised KGW8. “He slowed down for a bit before hitting the railroad tracks, and so, I jumped off.”
Police mentioned, luckily, she solely sustained minor accidents.
Witnesses advised officers on the scene that the truck was outfitted with a GPS monitoring gadget. Nonetheless, following a verify of the world, officers weren’t capable of find the truck.
Later within the day, staff of the deli knowledgeable police that the van had been noticed round Portland, in keeping with information from the GPS monitoring system.
With the help of the Beaverton Police Division, the truck was situated and the suspected thief, 29-year-old Forrest Lee Guayante of Aberdeen, Washington, was nonetheless inside.
When police tried to cease the truck, Guayante allegedly rammed the police automobile with the truck and tried to get away.
Nonetheless, the truck was stopped by heavy visitors and so Guayante allegedly deserted the truck and ran away on foot by enterprise parking heaps and neighborhood yards.
Officers have been capable of observe him down with the assistance of a police Okay-9 and arrest him.
Guayante was booked within the Washington County Jail and charged with unauthorized use of a automobile, reckless endangering, try to elude, hit-and-run and illegal possession of methamphetamine.
He additionally faces prices of kidnapping, prison mischief, theft and fraudulent use of a bank card, in keeping with the Milwaukie Police Division.
