Prosecutors say a tense argument on a Southeast Portland bus ended with a 72-year-old rider getting robbed of his backpack, after a fellow passenger allegedly pegged him as an easy mark.
The victim, who lives in a care facility, told investigators a man pulled a knife, sliced through the strap of his backpack and ran. Officers later tracked down a suspect near Southeast 105th Avenue and Powell Boulevard and took him into custody.
According to court records cited by KATU, the confrontation unfolded on September 27 after a verbal altercation on a city bus in Southeast Portland. A police K-9 team later found a man hiding behind a water barrel and identified him as 60-year-old Benjamin Lars Granberg, who reportedly admitted to the theft…