GP Police Arrested Transient for Stealing Phone from Homeless Man at 7-Eleven
Grants Pass Police arrested a transient for stealing a phone from another transient at a downtown convenience store.
The Police Department reports officers responded to a theft complaint at 7-Eleven on SW 6th Street on Tuesday night.
Police said a man reported his Samsung A16 phone was stolen off the counter of the store by an unknown male subject. They viewed surveillance footage which showed a man later identified as 56-year-old Thomas Allen Pitts, Sr., stealing the phone and leaving in a vehicle.
Officers searched the area and located Pitts and the stolen phone at Baker Park. They recovered the phone and found the suspect to be in possession of fentanyl, which was seized for destruction.
Pitts was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for 2nd-Degree Theft and Fentanyl Possession. He was being held without bail and was trespassed from Baker Park for 30 days.
Police took the recovered phone to Kesterson Park, but were unable to locate the victim. They placed the phone into the GPPD evidence locker for safekeeping.
Posted on 7/3/25 6:19AM by Sam Marsh
