Jail inmate who tried to raise bail by selling car he didn’t own gets two years in prison

OREGON CITY, Or. -- A Clackamas County jail inmate who concocted a plan to raise bail money by selling a car he did not own was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison. 

Isaiah Andrew Mohr, 30, was found guilty of Forgery in the First Degree and Identity Theft after a jury trial in Clackamas County Circuit Court. 

Mohr was arrested in April and charged with mail theft, eluding police and other crimes and lodged at the jail. His trial in that case is scheduled for Sept. 22. 

In June, Mohr devised a plan to sell a car his cellmate was driving when the cellmate was arrested. The car, which the cellmate did not own, was impounded by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. 

An investigation by the West Linn Police Department and the Sheriff’s Office determined Mohr conspired with his girlfriend, Adriane Shelton, to forge a bill of sale for the vehicle.

Shelton presented the forged document at the Sheriff’s Office on June 12 as proof of ownership to secure the vehicle’s release. She claimed she bought the car from a man in March 2026.

A West Linn police detective who monitored jail calls between Mohr and Shelton learned of the ruse and alerted the Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found that the car’s registered owner, a woman, died in December 2025. 

Shelton, 47, was charged with forgery, identity theft and criminal conspiracy for her role in the scheme. Her trial date has not been scheduled.

Clackamas County Circuit Court case 26CR33022