It appears the vehicle used to damage a lawn on Fairplains Church Road this weekend was stolen from another location -- and when the thief got done doing the damage, they returned the pickup. Frances Brinegar reported her 1991 Dakota was stolen Friday evening about 8:30. She tells deputies she had come home, accidentally left the keys in the back as she was unloading something, and when she went back out a few minutes later to retrieve the keys, the pickup was gone. While a deputy was on the way to take the auto theft report,Brinegar says she saw someone skid to a stop just down the road from her house, and run off into the woods, leaving her pickup sitting in the road running. Because of the darkness, Brinegar only saw a silhouette of the thief, and although they searched the area, deputies did not find the person. The call of someone spinning up the yard of a home on Fairplains Church Road happened about the same time as the pickup was reported stolen, and the vehicle used to tear up the yard matched the pickup's description. Deputies are still looking for the thief.

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