A Georgia man released from Wood County Jail on Monday (11/17) reportedly stole a vehicle from a church parking lot in Bowling Green on Tuesday (11/18).
Michael King, 62, of Jonesboro, Georgia, was arrested later Tuesday after the stolen vehicle was spotted in a driveway in Detroit, Michigan.
Bowling Green Police Division was called around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday to the church in the 1500 block of East Wooster Street. The 72-year-old owner of the Nissan Rogue said she helped clean up after the preschool children finished lunch, then found her car to be missing. The woman thought she had brought her keys into the church, but later realized she may have left them in the vehicle.
A search of the license plate cameras in the city showed that her plate had been seen at 1:12 p.m. on East Wooster Street at Interstate 75.
One hour later, Bowling Green Police Division was notified that the vehicle plate was spotted by a license plate camera in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
BG Police later got a call from Detroit Police Department that the car was found parked in a driveway. A resident reportedly approached the officers and said the person who stole the car, King, was in his house and was highly intoxicated. King allegedly told the resident that he had carjacked the vehicle.
Detroit Police arrested King. When BGPD looked up King’s history, it was noted that he had been arrested on Friday (11/14) and taken to Wood County Jail, where he was released on Monday. King reportedly has no home and no vehicle.
