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Accused dognapper arrested thanks to KGW viewer's tip

04:48 PM PDT on Thursday, July 10, 2008

By kgw.com Staff

Dognapping on tape

BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Police Thursday arrested a woman caught on camera running out of a veterinary office with a dog she’d found.

Not long after a tip by a KGW viewer led them to the missing pooch, officers arrested Malti Greenberg, 48. She was charged with felony theft and will be booked at the Washington County Jail. Greenberg was expected to make her first court appearance Friday.

Officers found the one-and-a-half-year-old Pomeranian, Teddy, in a southwest Portland home. The dog had been shaved but was unharmed.

"I was so excited, I couldn’t believe it. It feels like a dream," said Danica Walter, who was reunited with Teddy on Thursday. "I’m really thankfull to all the people who helped and called in tips. This is the happy ending I was hoping for."

Walter said Teddy fell asleep in her arms but later started running around and wagging his tail.

Beaverton police believe Greenberg is the woman in the vet office video shown on KGW Wednesday.

The tipster had seen KGW's television report on the missing dog and recognized the suspect, police said.

In mid June, a woman brought a lost black and white pomeranian to Laurelwood Animal Hospital and asked staffers to check for an ID microchip.

Dr. Robert Franklin said as staffers scanned the dog's microchip, the woman checked out the lost dog fliers. After apparently seeing the flyer for the dog she brought in, the woman snatched the dog out of an exam room and ran out.

By then, the ID chip scan had showed Walter as the dog’s true owner. The vet’s office notified her.

Teddy slipped through a break in a backyard fence on May 9, Walter said. She thought someone would find him -- so she left fliers at area vet's offices.

Walter said she was so distraught, she actually hired a search team that team tracked the dog's scent to the Canyon Grill -- it was the last place he was seen.

(KGW Reporter Amy Troy contributed to this story)

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