The sun was setting over Oregon when a desperate burglar’s escape turned into a metal-grinding nightmare. A 911 call lit up the line: a homeowner scanning their security footage had just watched a stranger steal from their own garage.
Deputies raced to a quiet neighborhood on Southeast River Road. The victim handed over a clear image of the thief—and described his white Ford Explorer. Within minutes, a deputy spotted the SUV on Southeast Roethe Road. But the driver had other plans.
The man floored it, speeding past the officer in a frantic bid for freedom. What followed was a high-stakes chase through winding county roads, a trail of reckless adrenaline.
Then came the crash. Near the intersection of Southeast Oatfield Road and Park Avenue, the suspect’s Explorer slammed into another occupied vehicle, flipped, and rolled violently—coming to a stop only after smashing into a parked, empty car.
The driver of the struck vehicle walked away without medical help, bruised but alive. The suspect, however, wasn’t so lucky. He was pulled from the wreckage, seriously injured, and rushed to a local hospital under police guard.
When investigators dug through the mangled Ford, they found a haul of suspected stolen goods. Then they checked his name: Scotty Nicholas Oldfield. And his past exploded into view.
Oldfield now faces a staggering list of charges: second-degree burglary, first-degree theft, attempting to elude police, reckless driving, reckless endangerment, DUII, identity theft, driving while suspended, third-degree assault, and criminal mischief. That’s just the beginning.
Behind the scenes, warrants from Oregon and Washington had been piling up—failure to appear, more DUIIs, driving suspended, false information, identity theft, assault, reckless endangerment, robbery, malicious mischief, criminal trespass. This man was a one-man crime wave on wheels.
But the story may not be over. Detectives suspect Oldfield hit other homes, other garages, other lives—before that white Explorer ever flipped. The trail of his destruction might stretch far beyond what’s been discovered.
