Burglar dubbed ‘The Grinch’ gets 10 years after stealing wrapped Christmas gifts, victimizing Portland area residents for years

Chris and Kristin Sassano were at a Christmas breakfast with their kids last Dec. 20 when they started getting Ring camera notifications that a masked man with a gun had kicked down the back door of their Southeast Portland home and was stealing their wrapped holiday gifts.

Kristin Sassano said there was no shielding their 9- and 10-year-old daughters as her husband got on the phone with police and they raced home. The burglar, however, had already fled by the time they got there.

“We showed police a picture of him, and they said ‘Oh yeah, that guy. We’ve been looking for him,’” recounted Kristin Sassano…

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