ATCHISON COUNTY—Police are investigating a reported vehicle theft in Atchison County.
Just after midnight on Sunday night officers responded to a vacant residence in the 1,000 block Forest Avenue in the city of Atchison to investigate a person who had been sitting in a parked vehicle there for over five hours, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson.
It was determined that the 2004 Toyota pickup truck parked in a driveway there had been reported stolen in Kansas City Kansas earlier that day. The occupant in the vehicle identified as 44-year-old Timothy L. Leger, was taken into custody at the scene. He remains jailed on a $10,000 bond on a requested charge of theft of property, according to online jail records.