Police arrest car theft suspect after man found sleeping in truck bed
A West Virginia man was arrested after Florida police received a call Thursday about a man sleeping in the bed of a truck at a motel, then discovered that the vehicle had been stolen.
Keith Ashton Brown, 28, was arrested.
Police responded Thursday morning to a Leesburg motel after getting reports of someone sleeping in a truck bed in the parking lot, the Daily Commercial reports.
Police said the man in the truck bed told them that his boss and co-worker “would not allow him to sleep in the room they were sharing.”
Officers learned that the truck had been reported stolen from West Virginia. Brown, who was found in the motel room, told police that his grandfather had “loaned him the truck several months ago for work.”
Brown was arrested and charged with vehicle theft.
