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Police face frustration of gas thefts, too.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Police face frustration of gas thefts, too.(Crime)(With rising fuel prices comes the rising risk of having your gas tank siphoned, even if you're a Eugene police sergeant)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard

It takes guts to steal from a cop.

As Eugene police Sgt. Michael Gilbert slept in his north Eugene home recently, someone slipped a hose into the tank of his police-issued Chevrolet Tahoe parked in the driveway and almost completely drained its contents.

"It's not a marked Tahoe, but if they bothered looking at it at all, they could see it's a police vehicle," Gilbert said. "It was more than a little irritating. I thought I...

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