PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Several people in a North Portland neighborhood say they had an encounter with a man who stole shoes off a front porch, then broke into a home and stole cash, plus other items.
Surveillance video shows the man going door-to-door in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood.
One neighbor, Ryan Reiff, said “I was at work actually and saw on the camera someone was at the front door, I assumed it was the mail man.”
However, surveillance video shows a man on Reiff’s porch, peeking through windows and trying to open the door. When he couldn’t get inside, the man trades his shoes for a pair of pink sandals on the porch.
Surveillance footage also shows what appears to be the man at a neighbor’s driveway on the same street. The man tried to open a car door then turned and walked away.
Another neighbor says he was taking a shower when he realized a man was inside his home.
Ehren, who didn’t want to use his last name for safety, explained “I could hear somebody singing in my living room from my shower and I thought that was odd. So, then I got out of the shower, I was drying off and I saw somebody jiggling my bathroom door handle that was locked and that was kinda sketchy. I said ‘stop,’ it stopped.”
By the time Ehren wrapped himself in a towel and made it to the living room, the front door was open and the man was gone – along with Erhen’s wallet and a kitchen knife.
Ehren says he was alerted that the man tried using his credit cards at a nearby bar and at Safeway. When Ehren showed up at that Safeway, he found his neighbor’s pink sandals in the candy aisle.
“Ladies working at the customer service counter, they said ‘I’m not touching those sandals,’ I said ‘I’m going to take them back,’ so I’m going to surprise my neighbor and take his sandals back,” Ehren said.
The man’s face is blurred out in the surveillance videos because police are not calling him a suspect. Police did, however, say that they received the report of the burglary.
The investigation is ongoing.