Vandal ransacks downtown Portland rug store
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PORTLAND, Ore. - Police quickly made an arrest after a downtown Portland rug store was vandalized early Sunday morning.
The crime happened at Kush Handmade Rugs at 205 N.W. 10th Avenue and the damage was extensive.
Owner Rebecca Lurie, who was on a camping trip near Independence, got a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call and drove back in to town to assess the damage.
"Never happened in my six years of business," she said. "Anything like this."
"It was just a wreck," said Clark Hale, Lurie's fiance. "I mean, there were shards of glass all over the store - piles of glass everywhere."
Early estimates put the damage at around $5,000.
A witness helped police track down the alleged vandal - 21-year-old Joshua Wayne Stamper of Vancouver. He was found just two blocks away and taken into custody.
No one at the store had ever seen the suspect before and it's a mystery why he would smash up the place. He didn't talk after his arrest.
Stamper is facing charges of second-degree burglary and first-degree criminal mischief.
What in the hell!?!
Just say no to rugs.
Judas Priest! I know that there's a dump truck full of stories about dumb crooks, but this fool hasn't got enough sense to pour pee out of a boot that's got instructions on how to do so on the heel. If I were Ms. Lurie, I'd be for tracking down this thing's keepers and finding out if they plan on fitting him with a shock collar.
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With that simian stare, and Cro-Magnon skull & bone framework, I doubt he needed a crowbar or sledge to bust into the place...he just plowed head-first through the door, like Juggernaut.
I'm not sure if he's homeless (kinda looks it tho), but maybe he could go to work for the Smithsonian as a part of their "Early Man" exhibit so as to make money to pay restitution to this lady.
If he finds that too demeaning, then I know there's still good money to be made selling ashtrays made out of an ape's hand!
Why does his name and face seem familiar? Is he a White Supremacist or an Occupier? Not much difference anyway, but I think he's been in the news before.
This guy sounds like he was on some senseless rampage! Dusted? Great job by the witnesses and police in making his capture quick, before he hurt someone.
I bet that he had one hell of a hangover when he woke up in Multnomah County Jail this morning. Â
is it just me or does this guy look like he's in the movie "Planet of the Apes".....Just sayin....
Carpanimaphobia or maybe he just hates rugs.
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@swimbad as long as it had a very large nail in it....
I thinking this guy is a few fries short of a happy meal or there is a lot more to this. You don't just randomly target some rug store.
 @Peregrine He misread the sign on the front door, He thought it was a drug store not  a rug store. When he got inside and could not find any drugs , he flipped out.
Seems like small businesses have enough problems to deal with these days without all these low-life criminals making things even worse...
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Kudos to the witnesses who gave the description of this low-life to the police... and good work on the quick arrest, PPD!Â