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.
Portland Police were unable to rely on security cameras at the auto sale shop because two suspected thieves had allegedly used ladders to reach the roof and disconnect the cameras. But the bureau was able to work with a federal officer to access surveillance video from the nearby South Portland waterfront ICE facility, records show. The film displayed a red Nissan Rouge parked by the auto shop’s south lot…