PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — A suspect accused of looting a home damaged in an ice storm is now behind bars, thanks to the quick thinking and detective work of a neighbor.
“I knew our three trees fell, I just knew it,” Shu-Ju Wang said.
Like many in the Portland area, Wang and her husband are now staying in a hotel after their home and one of their cars was destroyed by falling trees in the recent winter storm. But when the ice hit, they weren’t able to go back and check in until a few days later, returning to find their place was looted.
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“That was when we discovered that people had been in the house and had taken his cello, all his work electronics and all my jewelry,” Wang said.
Sharing the news with her neighbor, James Tabor, he immediately got to work looking through his Ring camera footage, finding just one truck coming through around midnight during the ice storm.
“I immediately looked at my security cameras and, keep in mind, our streets are covered in ice, barely anybody was driving,” Tabor said. “One truck a little after midnight went by two different times, 12:03 and again 12:48, and I knew right away, they were the ones.”