MILWAUKIE, OR - Just after 4:00 AM on Friday, November 15, 2024, a suspect, later identified as 29-year-old Forrest Lee Guayante of Aberdeen, Washington, can be seen on surveillance footage stealing an Elephants Delicatessen delivery truck out of a Milwaukie, Oregon warehouse parking lot. 

At the time of the theft, employees were loading the truck with goods from the warehouse. When Guayante got into the cab portion of the truck and drove away, there was an Elephants employee still inside the cargo portion of the truck. The employee had to jump off the truck as it was leaving the area to avoid being taken with the truck.

A few hours later around 12:15 PM, using an air tag, Elephants Delicatessen employees tracked the stolen truck to a parking lot in Beaverton near SW Walker Rd. and SW Cedar Hill Blvd. Employees called police and vectored them into the location of the stolen truck, still occupied by Guayante. 

Beaverton Police Officers responded and located the truck with Guayante inside near the intersection of SW Gem Ln. and SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Upon being stopped by police, Guayante rammed a Beaverton Police vehicle and attempted to elude capture in the stolen cargo truck. After running into heavy traffic, Guayante fled from the stolen cargo truck on foot. He ran through business parking lots and neighborhood yards prior to being captured by Beaverton Police Officers who deployed a Police K9 to track Guayante.

Guayante was taken into custody and lodged in the Washington County Jail on a number of criminal charges to include: Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, Reckless Endangering, Attempt to Elude - Felony, Hit and Run, and Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine.

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