Tigard police search for man suspected of armed carjacking
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Tigard Police Department is searching for a suspect who allegedly carjacked someone at gunpoint in a parking lot right after attempting to commit fraud at another location.
Police said the back-to-back incidents happened Tuesday afternoon in Tigard. Officers responded around 4:50 p.m. to a reported “fraud in progress” at a motorsports store in the 10700 block of Southwest Cascade Avenue. The suspect was allegedly trying to make a “large purchase with fraudulent identity,” authorities said in a release.
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When police arrived, the man left but then the carjacking allegedly happened just a few minutes later at a nearby convenience store by who is believed to be the same person. What’s more, surveillance video (in the video player above) released by police allegedly captured the man in the car leaving the area.
Shortly after the incident at the motorsports store, officers were dispatched to the parking lot of a convenience in the 10700 block of Southwest Greenburg Road. Police said the victim told them he was parked and sitting in the driver’s seat when the man appeared from the alley, opened the door, and told the man to exit the car at gunpoint.
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The suspect in these incidents is described as a white man with a “faded drop tattoo under his right eye” and numerous other tattoos on his arms and hands. The car that was allegedly stolen is a white 2013 Subaru Impreza, Washington license plate CJM0304 and was last seen heading south on Highway 217 from Greenburg Road.
Anyone with information about the suspect’s identity or other information pertinent to the case is encouraged to contact Tigard police.
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