RICHMOND —
A serial car thief who has left a string of stolen vehicles and reports of gas station drive-offs across three states has struck a Berea auto dealership.
On Wednesday, police were called to Berea Auto Sales on Chestnut Street to investigate a theft.
The business owner told police a man had taken a vehicle for a test drive but did not return, according to a release from Sgt. Jake Reed, Berea police spokesperson.
When police checked the Ohio license plate on the vehicle the suspect had left at the dealer’s lot during the test drive, they found it had been reported as stolen in Ohio and did not belong to the vehicle to which it was attached.
A check of the auto’s vehicle identification number showed that it also was listed as stolen in Ohio, according to the report.
Berea police reached the vehicle owner in Franklin County, Ohio, and learned it had been offered for sale by the owner who let a prospective buyer take it for a test drive. The driver never returned, and the car he had left during the test drive turned out to have been reported stolen in Indiana.
Police in Van Wert, Ohio, where the license plate Berea police recovered had been stolen, also said it had been taken during a false test drive and another stolen vehicle left in its place.
The stolen plate has been reported to law enforcement in Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio in association with drive-offs from gasoline stations.
The suspect is described as a white male about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighing about 170 lbs.
The stolen vehicle from Berea is a 2009 Gray Toyota Corolla with Kentucky license 795-JVR.
Jewelry, bath towels taken from Four Mile Avenue home
A Four Mile Avenue home was broken into and jewelry worth $1,000 was stolen, according to a Richmond police report.
A resident in the 1000 block of Four Mile Avenue told police Tuesday that the jewelry had been taken from her house sometime during the previous two weeks.
The missing items included a short white-pearl necklace, a long, thin gold chain, a long rope chain with a cross pendant that contained diamonds, a diamond-cut anklet, a gold chain link bracelet, a gold chain necklace with four layer chains in one with brown beads, a gold basketball and net charm, a gold cross charm, a gold rope chain, an “xxoo” gold charm, a gold “mom” charm, a gold floating heart charm, a solid silver half-dollar, a gold half-dollar, a sterling silver ring with a P on it and five pairs of gold loop earrings.
Numerous bath towels and wash clothes were stolen as well, according to the report.
Items stolen from vehicle at Lowe’s
A Lowe’s customer told police Monday that several items were stolen from his unsecured vehicle while it was in the business’s parking lot May 24, according to a Richmond police report.
Items missing included a pair of black leather motorcycle gloves with royal blue trim, a black pair of motorcycle goggles/glasses and about $15 in loose change.
It also appeared that attempts were made to remove the vehicle’s radio, according to the report.
The stolen items were worth $60.
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