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Dramatic video shows a truck smashing into a tow yard employee and the employee getting up and fighting back. Now the woman suspected of driving that truck has been arrested.
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Dramatic video
shows a truck smashing into a tow yard employee at 21st Century Towing on North Kerby Avenue last week and the employee getting up and fighting back. Now, police say, the woman suspected of driving that truck has been arrested.
Nicole O. Penagos-Clare, 24, was arrested on Saturday night after an anonymous caller told the Portland Police Bureau they saw the video of the incident on the news and believed the suspect to be in a house on the 1600 block of Northeast 128th Avenue, the bureau said in a release Sunday.
Responding officers saw the suspect, who ran from police but was captured and arrested, officials said.
The truck involved in the assault was also found on Saturday when an employee of 21st Century Towing came across the stolen vehicle near Northeast Sixth Drive and Middlefield Road, police said. The employee hooked the Ford truck with license plate 628JPG up to his tow truck so no one could take it and then contacted authorities, according to the release.
Police said they seized the truck as evidence.
In the video, the female suspect can be seen with an older male suspect at the gate. The man walks away and the woman wriggles under a fence before the tow yard employee arrives at the gate and the truck smashes through the gate, sending him sprawling.
The employee was taken to a hospital for treatment of significant injuries that weren’t life-threatening, officials said.
Penagos-Clare was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center and charged with robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and failure to perform the duties of a driver-injury, which is a C Felony.
