Clackamas County Government: Sheriff's Office Seeks Suspect In Brazen MAX-Platform Purse Theft; Photos, Video Available

Press release from the Clackamas County Government:

9/9/2021

Please reference CCSO Case # 21-018835

SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF SUSPECT COMMITTING THEFT (.mp4):https://www.dropbox.com/s/5q9fi1kfyhoagh6/21-018835-MAXPlatformPurseTheft.mp4?dl=0

SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF SUSPECT COMMITTING THEFT 

The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to identify a fake "Good Samaritan" who stole a woman's purse while "assisting" her with her mobility scooter. 

Just before 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, a Sheriff's Office deputy responded to a reported theft at the Fuller MAX Station at 8710 SE Con Battin Rd. in Happy Valley.

The victim told the deputy that she arrived at the MAX station around 9:15 p.m. Her three-wheeled mobility scooter had a low battery, and an unknown man (the suspect) had offered to push her to the station.

The man pushed the victim in her mobility scooter onto the Fuller Road MAX platform. However, as the suspect pretended to do this good deed, he also lifted her purse off the back of the scooter and placed it in a trash can. After leaving the victim and her scooter on the northern end of the platform, the suspect returned to the trash can, grabbed the stolen purse, and fled the scene.

The suspect is described as follows:

TriMet surveillance video of the suspect committing the theft is here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/5q9fi1kfyhoagh6/21-018835-MAXPlatformPurseTheft.mp4?dl=0

This press release was produced by the Clackamas County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.