A Veneta man had a busy day Tuesday. Police say 25-year old Trennon Roy Smith was arrested in Florence after a “one man crime wave” in which he stole one car, threatened a woman in Mapleton and several more people in Florence and tried to steal several more vehicles.
Florence Police Commander John Pitcher said it all came to a head Tuesday evening when they received a 911 call from the 7-11 about a man acting erratically and threatening to kill people if they didn’t surrender their car to him. Police responded and arrested Smith who is also facing charges related to a car stolen earlier in the day from Eugene and left abandoned… and heavily damaged… in Mapleton. The Lane County Sheriff’s Office said Smith then allegedly waited inside a woman’s car when she came out of a market in Mapleton and demanded her keys. Rose Nicol said she refused to surrender them, so the man got out of her car and climbed into a nearby red jeep. The driver of that vehicle then apparently took Smith to Florence. Police say they would like to talk to that person as well to make sure he or she was not coerced into giving the man a ride.
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A Veneta man had a busy day Tuesday. Police say 25-year old Trennon Roy Smith was arrested in Florence after a “one man crime wave” in which he stole one car, threatened a woman in Mapleton and several more people in Florence and tried to steal several more vehicles.
Florence Police Commander John Pitcher said it all came to a head Tuesday evening when they received a 911 call from the 7-11 about a man acting erratically and threatening to kill people if they didn’t surrender their car to him. Police responded and arrested Smith who is also facing charges related to a car stolen earlier in the day from Eugene and left abandoned… and heavily damaged… in Mapleton. The Lane County Sheriff’s Office said Smith then allegedly waited inside a woman’s car when she came out of a market in Mapleton and demanded her keys. Rose Nicol said she refused to surrender them, so the man got out of her car and climbed into a nearby red jeep. The driver of that vehicle then apparently took Smith to Florence. Police say they would like to talk to that person as well to make sure he or she was not coerced into giving the man a ride.