Man convicted of $250K jewelry heist in Beaverton - OregonLive
A man who robbed a Beaverton jewelry store at gunpoint, then fled the state for several months, was convicted Thursday of robbery.
Washington County District Attorney's Office
Police recovered the jewelry items Jason Patton and Robert Duke stole from a Beaverton consignment store — totaling a value of about $250,000.
Jason Patton, 42, was convicted of one count each of first- and second-degree robbery for an October 2018 theft from a jewelry store. According to court records, Patton and another man, Robert Duke, held an employee of a Beaverton consignment shop at gunpoint while they stole cash and $250,000 worth of jewelry. The two then ran from the scene. Duke was arrested on a nearby walking path soon after the robbery, and in January he was sentenced to 90 months in prison.
Patton escaped and ran into a nearby mobile home park, where he stole a car from an elderly woman, breaking her arm during the robbery.
Police later found the stolen car in Portland, but Patton disappeared for several months. Police eventually found him in Florida.
In a news release from 2018, Beaverton police said they examined phone records from Duke and Patton, and found the two had been planning the robbery for a while.
Patton is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 5.
—Jayati Ramakrishnan; 503-221-4320; jramakrishnan@oregonian.com; @JRamakrishnanOR
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