(KAIR)--Atchison Police are searching for a suspect wanted in connection with a vehicle theft that was reported Friday in Atchison.

Police Chief Mike Wilson says on Friday a 1998 Dodge truck was taken from the 1600 block of Liberty. “The owner of the truck had been gone in the morning, returned during the noon hour (and) found that the truck was taken. We did locate that truck in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday morning, and we do have a suspect in that case that we are attempting to locate in several different locations outside of Atchison.”

Wilson says the suspect had been staying at the victim’s residence leading up to the theft of the truck.