EUGENE, Ore. – Beau, a dog stolen from a 73-year-old unhoused woman in downtown Eugene, has been found and returned to his owner, according to the Eugene Police Department.
EPD officials said a woman has been cited for first-degree theft. Eugene Police investigated the case as a first-degree theft because Beau is a companion animal.
The elderly woman contacted Eugene Police at the Downtown Public Safety Station at 2:15 a.m. Sept. 23 to report Beau was missing. She said she was sleeping on the corner of West Broadway and Olive Street with her dog when she went to sleep, but he was gone when she woke up. Video showed the dog had wandered off around 12:30 a.m. A group of people brought the dog back on its leash and tied it up near the woman, who was still sleeping. The group returned about 45 minutes later, untied the dog’s leash and left the area with the dog. Beau is a two-year-old tri-color purebred border collie…