A 31-year-old woman recently was arrested for allegedly stealing a pickup parked at the UGas at highways 30 and NN in Cedar Hill that belonged to her child’s father, said Capt. Ralph Brown of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect’s boyfriend, a 36-year-old Cedar Hill man, also was arrested in connection with the incident.
At 11:27 p.m. Oct. 13, the victim pulled up near a pump at the gas station, where the Cedar Hill woman – the mother of the victim’s 4-year-old child – happened to be, along with her boyfriend, the Cedar Hill man, Brown said.
The Cedar Hill couple was in a white Honda Civic and had the 4-year-old child with them, but the mother convinced the victim to take the child, Brown said.
When the victim was inside the gas station, he reportedly looked out and saw his pickup, a blue 1998 Chevrolet Silverado, being driven away. The victim later found the pickup abandoned on Dittmer Catawissa Road, with damage to a fender, a door and a wheel well, Brown said.
In addition, the victim said a laptop computer and cell phone that had been inside the pickup were missing, Brown reported.
Deputies talked to witnesses and viewed security footage and identified the woman as the one who allegedly drove away in the pickup, and then deputies used the license plate number from the Civic to track down her and her boyfriend, finding them at a home on Cedar Glenn Drive in Cedar Hill, Brown said.
The man was released at the scene, and the woman was taken into custody, booked and then released pending the application for warrants, Brown said.
The Sheriff’s Office will seek charges against the woman, and possibly the man, for tampering and property damage, Brown said.