Teen Faces Charges In Auto Theft
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Joyriding was short-lived when an alleged car thief was stopped for speeding about an hour after a Warsaw woman reported her car missing.
Jason Thorn, 16, no address available, is preliminarily charged with auto theft in Kosciusko County and faces an infraction charge of driving while suspended in Noble County.
According to reports from the Kosciusko and Noble county sheriff's departments, Thorn was stopped about 3:16 a.m. today by Ligonier police for allegedly traveling at high speed near the intersection of U.S. 6 and Westwood Drive in Noble County.
Thorn reportedly told the Ligonier officer that he borrowed the car from a friend's father, but he couldn't provide the officer with the name of the car owner.
At 2:03 a.m. today, Suzy M. Fortress of EMS B36B1 Lane, Warsaw, called the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department after watching her 1997 Monte Carlo being driven away from her residence.
Fortress told police she saw a pickup drive down her dead-end lane and then leave before her car was driven from her home. She immediately called police.
Thorn was released to his mother's custody and another 16-year-old male in the car at the time of the traffic stop was released to his mother's custody without charges filed against him. [[In-content Ad]]
Joyriding was short-lived when an alleged car thief was stopped for speeding about an hour after a Warsaw woman reported her car missing.
Jason Thorn, 16, no address available, is preliminarily charged with auto theft in Kosciusko County and faces an infraction charge of driving while suspended in Noble County.
According to reports from the Kosciusko and Noble county sheriff's departments, Thorn was stopped about 3:16 a.m. today by Ligonier police for allegedly traveling at high speed near the intersection of U.S. 6 and Westwood Drive in Noble County.
Thorn reportedly told the Ligonier officer that he borrowed the car from a friend's father, but he couldn't provide the officer with the name of the car owner.
At 2:03 a.m. today, Suzy M. Fortress of EMS B36B1 Lane, Warsaw, called the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department after watching her 1997 Monte Carlo being driven away from her residence.
Fortress told police she saw a pickup drive down her dead-end lane and then leave before her car was driven from her home. She immediately called police.
Thorn was released to his mother's custody and another 16-year-old male in the car at the time of the traffic stop was released to his mother's custody without charges filed against him. [[In-content Ad]]