Salem man arrested while wearing stolen panties

Stacey Barchenger
Statesman Journal

A Salem man found wearing women’s underwear was arrested Monday allegedly in the middle of a burglary, officials said today.

Marion County sheriff’s officials said a woman at the house being broken into identified the underwear as her own.

Just after 10 p.m., deputies were called to the 4500 block of Prince Court Northeast by the report of a burglary in progress, sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Sheila Lorance said.

A woman and her boyfriend called emergency dispatchers after they found a man inside their garage nearly naked.

Deputies arrived and found the man being held down by the victim’s boyfriend.

The woman identified the undies on the suspect as her own, which she said had been taken from her garage, Lorance said.

During the continuing investigaiton, deputies went to the suspects home across the street and found several large garbage bags in his garage.

Each was full of women’s clothing, underwear, shoes and accessories, Lorance said.

“There’s the potential for other victims, there was such a large amount of clothing,” Lorance said.

The woman identified some of the clothing as hers and said beginning several months ago, she’d noticed clothes and undergarments missing from her laundry in her garage, Lorance said.

“Over a period of time he was going in and doing this,” Lorance said. “He was taking dirty clothes, too.”

Also found in the suspect’s garage was a large number of illegal fireworks that were handled by Oregon State Police, Lorance said.

Randall Joseph Giesbers, 47, of Salem, was arrested and is being held in Marion County jail on charges of theft, 10 counts of burglary,

10 counts of trespassing and 42 counts of possessing illegal fireworks, Lorance said.