A Portland Police Bureau squad car parked outside the Coordinated Care Pathway Center in Portland on Dec. 3, 2024. The bureau was key to investigating a car theft incident which has made it to the Oregon Court of Appeals. (Photo by Ben Botkin/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
The Oregon Court of Appeals has allowed local prosecutors to rely on surveillance video from Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to charge a Tillamook woman who allegedly helped steal a car and gas from a nearby used-car dealership.
A Multnomah County grand jury in July 2022 indicted Staci Lynne Parr Turner, 50, on four charges involving the unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal mischief in the first degree, unlawful entry into a vehicle and theft in the first degree. In June 2022, an employee with Uniquely European Auto Sales reported finding several damaged vehicles, stolen gasoline from tanks and a missing 2011 Ford Club Wagon, court records show…