Video footage captures man driving delivery truck with female employee still inside.
Allegedly, Forrest Lee Guayante, 29, rammed a police car with a truck and attempted to flee.
An employee was still inside the cargo area of a delivery truck when a man was arrested for stealing it in Oregon on Friday.
At approximately 4:29 a.m. on November 15, a work cargo truck was reported stolen from the warehouse parking lot in Milwaukee.
A man jumped into a delivery truck that was being loaded by Elephants Delicatessen employees for the day.
An employee was forced to jump from the back of a moving truck as it sped away, according to security footage showing the suspect getting into the truck cab and driving away.
"Esmeralda, the employee working in the truck, told KGW8 that she held on tightly as the truck accelerated, but then slowed down before hitting the railroad tracks. She jumped off the truck at that point."
Police said, fortunately, she only sustained minor injuries.
Despite witnesses reporting that the truck had a GPS tracking device, officers were unable to find it after checking the area.
According to GPS tracking system data, the van was seen in Portland later in the day, as reported by the deli employees.
The suspected thief, 29-year-old Forrest Lee Guayante of Aberdeen, Washington, was still inside the truck with the help of the Beaverton Police Department.
Allegedly, Guayante rammed the police car with the truck while trying to escape when the police tried to stop the truck.
Due to heavy traffic, the truck was halted, and Guayante is said to have abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot through business parking lots and neighborhood yards.
With the aid of a police K-9, officers located and apprehended him.
Guayante was arrested in the Washington County Jail and accused of using a vehicle without permission, putting others in danger, trying to evade police, causing a hit-and-run accident, and possessing methamphetamine illegally.
The Milwaukee Police Department has accused him of kidnapping, criminal mischief, theft, and fraudulent use of a credit card, in addition to the charges he already faces.
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