Grand theft wheelchair: Millville woman arrested during slow escape
Published: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:16 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:16 PM
Cameron said she had only borrowed the chair to go shopping. Christine Cameron, 53, of Ferguson Court, was charged with third-degree theft Tuesday afternoon.
An officer responded to that street around 3:20 p.m. when a woman called and said someone had stolen her Invacare Pronto Sure Step motorized wheelchair.
She told the officer it had been there around 2:15 p.m., but when she next walked out on the porch she saw that it had vanished.
She suspected her next-door neighbor, Christine Cameron, had stolen the chair as they had been having problems recently and Cameron had signed several complaints against her.
She described the chair as having an antenna topped with an American flag with an orange flag tied on directly beneath it. Another officer found Cameron making her slow getaway at the intersection of High and Foundry Streets.
Cameron admitted to taking the Sure Step, but said that she had only borrowed it to go shopping. The officer informed her that she was under arrest and then handcuffed her and relieved her of the chair, offering the back seat of his police cruiser as a substitute.
The officer who had spotted Cameron placed the chair in her trunk and returned it to its rightful owner while the other took Cameron to the station to be processed and fingerprinted.
She was released on a summons, but it was unclear how she managed to return the one-and-a-half miles to Ferguson Court without the motorized chair.
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