A 73-year-old unhoused woman’s dog has been returned after someone took it while she slept outside in Eugene, police said. A woman has been cited for first-degree theft.
At 2:15 a.m. Sept. 23, the owner contacted Eugene police to report that her dog, Beau, a 2-year-old tricolor purebred border collie, was missing. She said she had been sleeping at the corner of West Broadway and Olive Street with the dog beside her. When she woke up, the dog was gone.
Surveillance video showed the dog wandered off around 12:30 a.m. A man and woman brought the dog back on its leash and tied it near the owner, who was still sleeping. About 45 minutes later, the pair returned, untied the leash and left with the dog…