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Police: Portland Pair May Have Stolen 1,000 Trailers

Couple Stole Trailers To Sell Online, Police Say

POSTED: 6:50 pm PST March 2, 2007
UPDATED: 8:02 am PST March 4, 2007

Police said they are looking for a woman who police believe is connected to at least 1,000 utility trailer thefts in the Portland area over the past two years.

Police said Andrew Culbert and Linda Shearer would cruise the Portland and Vancouver areas looking for desirable trailers. They would record the addresses in their notebooks and return later to haul them off, police said.

After stripping and repainting the trailers, they would allegedly sell them on Craigslist. Police said they often sold as many as five a day.

One of the alleged victims, Ed Wong, said his trailer had been repainted and the floorboards replaced, but he claimed he still knew it was his when he located it on craigslist.org.

"Someone stole my trailer out of my house, out of my driveway. I reported it to the police. The officer said that we probably won’t recover it," said Wong. "There have been numerous trailers stolen. The officers said his trailer had been stolen."

Culbert was arrested this week, and Shearer is still at large, police said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Clackamas authorities.

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