Posted December 29, 2020 08:12am
(KAIR)--An Atchison man has been arrested in the theft of a vehicle.
According to a report from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, shortly after 7:30 Sunday evening an officer on patrol saw a vehicle driving recklessly without headlights in the area of South 10th Street and U.S. 59 Highway.
The driver of the 1998 Chevy pickup truck drove into a parking lot in the 400 block of South 10th where the officer stopped the vehicle.
Wilson said an investigation determined the pickup had been taken a short time earlier from a parking lot in the 600 block of Kansas Avenue.
He said 32-year-old Miguel Garcia was arrested on charges of felony theft and operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license.
Garcia was booked into the Atchison County Jail, where he remains held on a $10,000 surety bond.
He is scheduled to appear in court January 25.