Suspected HVAC thieves own $500k home; Neighbors detail string of thefts, degraded quality of life in West TD
This image released by The Dalles Police Department shows Tyson and Chandra Trezona being arrested on Dec. 21, 2024 outside their home at 2426 W. 13th Street in The Dalles after being secretly indicted on charges of stealing HVAC equipment from the National Neon Sign Museum.
By Tom Peterson
The Dalles, Ore., Feb. 3, 2025 — A couple suspected of stealing $20,000 of HVAC Units across the street from The Dalles Police Department own a home valued at $500,000 in West the Dalles and drive a newer Toyota Tundra.
It’s a puzzler.
Tyson William Trezona, 35, and Chandra Leigh Trezona, 43, of 2426 W. 13th Street have been indicted for first-degree Theft of the HVAC units from The National Neon Sign Museum which is across the street from The Dalles Police Department.
Multiple warning signs on the couple’s robin’s egg blue house state “No Trespassing” and underneath in Sharpie it is written “will get F’d up.”
The Trezona Home at 2426 W. 13th Street
The signs send a clear message to the hard-working, blue-collar neighborhood and to police that it will take the act of a judge to gain access to the Trezona property.
Some neighbors have thrown in the towel.
They told CCCNews they are moving because of the degraded quality of life since the couple moved into the neighborhood in 2023. They say they fear for their young children and are tired of the crime.
Wasco County Property Records reveal that the Trezona’s bought their home on West 13th for $420,000 in May 2023 with help of a $404,000 loan.
But neighbors said the family started to unravel after moving in.
Chandra Trezona lost her job at the Oregon Department of Human Services in September according to one neighbor after police went to the home and an argument between Chandra and police broke out.
Neighbors said Tyson Trezona began riding his “loud” motocross bike up and down the city streets in the evening disturbing the peace not long after moving in. And later the Trezona house was getting many visitors at all hours of the night … the couple appeared to have ‘gone nocturnal’, with the house dark during daytime hours.
In the last 8 months, one neighbor reported their security cameras have captured Trezona’s Tundra drive back and forth along West 13th as much as 40 times in a single night.
The couple, however, did not run afoul of the law until late in 2024.
Court records allege Tyson has been observed stealing tools from work vehicles and even a window-unit AC from a nearby resident’s porch. A tarp at the Trezona home can be seen covering the area in front of the garage. It is used to obscure items they are moving in and out of their pickup and into their home, according to neighbors.
Here is an image of the tarp obscuring the view into the Trezona driveway next to the garage.
It’s been going on for months.
By law, CCCNews is prevented from entering the Trezona property and knocking on the door to ask their side of the story. We did, however, call the two phone numbers the couple gave in their release agreements.
The female answering at Tyson Trezona’s phone number said it was a new number she had just received and that she knew nothing of Tyson.
CCCNews did get ahold of Chandra Trezona on her phone today, Feb. 27, and asked for her side of the story.
“No comment,” she said. “It’s all alleged. Don’t bug me again.” She hung up.
Here is the timeline of documented allegations against Tyson and Chandra Trezona, according to court and police records.
On Nov. 6, 2024, Tyson Trezona was cited on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The original felony count stems from a conviction of possession of methamphetamine in Wasco County in 2010. Trezona had a checkered past of theft charges in both California and Oregon.
Then this happened.
HVAC Units at the ReStore on Sixth Street and at the National Neon Sign Museum on Third Street were reported stolen on Nov. 11.
The National Neon Sign Museum sits across the street from The Dalles Police Department. Thieves boldly stole the Museums HVAC units in November 2024. Photo via Google Maps
On Nov. 12, Circuit Court Judge Marion Weatherford issued a bench warrant for Trezona’s arrest when he failed to show up for court on the alleged misdemeanor firearm charge.
Tyson Trezona was arrested on the failing to go to court. He was given a conditional release with no security money required and he was released from NORCOR on Nov. 21
Then on Dec. 3, 2024, Tyson Trezona was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances. He received a conditional release on the same day.
While he was free on the conditional release, several neighbors said they caught Tyson Trezona on camera carrying stolen tool cases taken from a pickup from a neighbor’s home on Dec. 4. The camera footage was used by police to develop probable cause for an arrest warrant as Trezona’s gold Chevrolet Silverado was captured in the footage, and Tyson Trezona can be seen carrying the plastic cases out of the neighbors garage, according to police reports.
The Trezonas were both indicted via a secret indictment in regard to the HVAC Case on Dec. 18 and a search warrant to enter their home to arrest the couple was signed by Judge Weatherford.
While unaware of the arrest coming, police say Chandra and Tyson Trezona stole tools on Dec. 20th, the night before their house was raided by police. Court documents show that the couple was indicted for first-degree theft on suspicion of stealing Milwaukie tool boxes and drills worth more than $1,000 on Dec. 20th.
SWAT teams descended upon the Trezona home on Dec. 21 at 8 a.m.
Neighbors were shocked to see an armored vehicle enter the quiet street. Police vehicles blocked east and west sides of the road. Multiple officers entered the residence.
The Dalles Police Departmnt released this photo of the search and arrest made on Tyson and Chandra Trezona on Dec. 21, 2024 at 8 a.m.
“Officers and deputies from the Northern Oregon Tactical Team served a search warrant after the culmination of an extensive investigation into multiple thefts within The Dalles, including the theft of the HVAC system at the Neon Sign Museum on Third Street,” stated The Dalles Police Facebook page. “The theft of the HVAC units alone resulted in a loss of over $20,000 to the museum...”
Detectives arrested theTrezonas, and charged them with aggravated first-degree theft for the Neon Sign Museum HVAC units.
Chandra Trezona was also hit with unlawful possession of methamphetamine at the time of the arrest.
She posted $500 security on her $5,000 bail and was released on Dec. 23rd. She is due back in court on March 24, 2025.
In a pretrial release interview it states that Tyson Trezona was unemployed and he had four parole violations and two contempt of court arrests dating back to 2012, and that he had been arrested four times in 2024.
Tyson Trezona’s criminal cases were merged at that time and bail was set at $35,000.
He came up with the $3,500 security - 10 percent of bail - on Dec. 30, and he was again released from jail. He was at that time required to return to court on all his charges on Feb. 5, 2025.
It would never happen.
On Jan. 14, at about 4:30 a.m., home camera footage shows a man wearing a hood drive alongside a home on W. 7th Street and stop. He gets out of the vehicle and picks up a window AC unit and begins walking back toward his pickup.
The thief is startled as the homeowner confronts the man with a few choice words. The hooded man throws the AC unit in the homeowner's direction and it crashes on the asphalt. The hooded man then ran to his pickup and sped off driving south on Hostetler Drive towards 10th Street.
The homeowner drove his vehicle east on 7th Street hoping to intercept the fleeing pickup. He told police he spotted it on 10th and it drove south around Pamona Street.
TD Police Officer Joe Green reviewed the security camera footage and saw the damaged AC unit. The homeowner told Green the pickup had a ladder hanging out the back and Green observed the hooded man’s grey Toyota Tundra had a dent in the truck bed on the driver’s side.
“After seeing the truck and (the homeowner) explaining that the truck had gone south around Pomona, I believed the truck to be Tyson Trezona’s. Please note Tyson’s residence is 2426 W. 13th, which is consistent with the direction of travel… (the homeowner) had told me. Also, note the footage was pixelated, and I could not see the male’s face, but the male’s build is similar to Tyson’s.”
Here is an image of the Toyota pickup that police suspect was used in the attempted theft of a window AC Unit on Jan. 14.
Officer Green said he drove by the Trezona residence and saw a grey Tundra with a dent in the driver’s side of the truck bed “consistent with the dent in the video footage” it was also the same color as the pickup in the footage.
Green wrote there were only two officers on duty at that time.
“For safety reasons, it was determined officers would attempt to contact Tyson at a later time,” he wrote in the report.
On Jan. 15, Tyson Trezona was hit with three more indictments on charges of two counts of first-degree theft, attempted theft, criminal mischief and criminal trespassing.
The Wasco County District Attorney alleges he attempted to steal the window AC Unit on West 7th on Jan. 14. It alleges he stole a rolling chest and property from a home in The Dalles on Nov. 26, 2024. It also alleges he and Chandra Trezona worked together to steal the Milwaukie boxes and tools on Dec. 20, 2024.
On Jan. 16, Tyson’s release agreement was revoked and a bench warrant for his arrest was issued on Jan. 17.
Wasco County Deputy District Attorney Caleb Berthelsen said Trezona forfeited his bail security of $3,500 when he failed to show at his Feb. 5 court date. At that point, warrants were issued for his arrest and remain in effect. Tyson Trezona remained at large earlier this week. Authorities believe he may be in the Portland-Vancouver area.
Wasco County District Attorney Kara Davis said Tyson Trezona is looking at a maximum of three years in prison if caught and convicted of the alleged crimes. Voter approved enhanced sentencing guidelines actually upped the prison time for theft crimes in 2008.
