Shoplifting suspect swims for it

By KVAL Web Staff Published: Oct 31, 2008 at 8:17 AM PST Last Updated: Nov 21, 2008 at 3:51 AM PST
Shoplifting suspect swims for it
In a still from a surveillance video, a woman with an armload of stolen clothes heads for the exit of a Ross store. Police suspect an organized shoplifting ring is behind the rash of thefts in Oregon and Washington.

EUGENE, Ore. -- Call it a criminal triathlon: a shoplifting suspect at Macy's ran from security guards and jumped into the Willamette River Thursday night.

The man was last seen around 8:58 p.m., more than 20 minutes after jumping from the boat ramp behind the Vallery River Center, where Macy's is located.

The man's identity and whereabouts are unknown.