Caught on Camera: Theft from Marijuana Dispensary
Tyson Beauchemin
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A suspected robbery of marijuana vapes was captured on camera. The business, Wacky Tobacky on Greenwood, seeks public assistance in identifying the individual in the video.
In the video, you can see a young man tearing vapes off of the wall. The mannager Manager Jay Burns was just around the corner, and gives chase. Outside, security cameras captured the suspect heading towards a car he arrived in, but Burns is too close to him, and he opts to run around the corrner. Burns says he hurt his foot, and returned to the parking lot to get in his car. Then, Burns says he was able to catch up with the suspect, who was allegedly changing his shirt when Burns found him.
According to Burns, the suspect offered to returned all of the stolen items, but then only returned some of them, before fleeing again.
Wacky Tobacky reports that some product remains missing from the store and is in the process of filing a police report.
Burns, believes the suspected robbery was a planned event, because of how the suspect parked and then waited till he was called to the back of the store by a co-worker.
“Daniel was in the back helping a customer.” Explained Burns, “He called me back there because he needed to know something about one of our products back there. I walked back there and then, right when I walked out, a couple of minutes after or seconds after I walked back there, that kid got out of the car that was parked right there. So I’m assuming they were just watching through the window, saw there was no one up front for a second.”
Employees at Tobacky are circulating the suspect’s picture. They have heard of similar incidents in the area and suspect this individual may have committed other thefts elsewhere.
The store is filing a police report regarding the incident. Employees will continue to show the suspect’s picture around the area as they believe he may be responsible for similar thefts.