Clark County Sheriff’s Office deputies were able to track down a family pet Tuesday that’d been stolen from the back of a pickup truck parked in Hazel Dell.
According to the sheriff’s office, about 12:30 p.m. Monday an unidentified thief stole the dog, which was in a kennel, from the back of the truck parked in a lot at 7917 N.E. Hazel Dell Ave.
“The rope which secured the kennel in the back of the truck was cut and the dog was taken,” according to a sheriff’s office press release.
Deputies said the dog, Reuben, was microchipped and trained to hunt. The canine was valued around $9,000.
Video footage captured the theft but deputies were unable to make out the suspect’s license plate from the video.
In a Tuesday morning update, deputies said a transient woman was spotted with the dog at the WinCo Foods store in Hazel Dell.
They said the woman was not a suspect but needed to be located.
Detective Ryan Peterson said the woman found Reuben in his kennel behind a Quiznos near the grocery store. The dog had no food or water, so the woman took him to WinCo to get some, Peterson said.
Then, the woman brought the dog back to a homeless camp. Deputies spent the day visiting different camps in the Hazel Dell area, and a man at the last location led them to the woman — and Reuben — in the 9300 block of state Highway 99.
The dog was reunited with his owner, Newton Rumble, who reimbursed the woman for buying dog food, Peterson said. The sheriff’s office posted a video of the reunion on its Facebook page. Watch it here.
