EUGENE, Ore. – Eugene police caught a woman accused of stealing a car nearly two weeks earlier when an officer spotted the vehicle in a Walmart parking lot early Monday morning, according to the Eugene Police Department.
EPD officials said an officer found a black Jeep Compass in the parking lot on Green Acres Road at 4:40 a.m. Sept. 28. The car had been reported stolen on Sept. 16. Two people got out of the car. The male passenger stopped when police told him to, but the female driver walked away. Officers later found her and identified her as Faith Miranda Rhoads, 26, of Eugene. The car’s owner had reported it stolen at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 16. He told police he had been with Rhoads at Abby’s Pizza on Echo Hollow Road when she said she was going to leave. When he went to leave later, he noticed his keys and car were gone. Rhoads stopped responding to him.
On Monday, the male passenger said he didn’t know the car was stolen. He said Rhoads had picked him up and the two had traveled to Ashland…