Scooter Stolen, Found

Sheriff Deputies and West Jefferson police are looking for an area woman, after she allegedly took a motor scooter, didn't return it, and sold it to someone else for cash. The scooter was reported stolen back on the 3rd, by Daniel Beldsoe in West Jefferson. He said he had let Samantha Combs borrow the scooter, a black Yamaha with red flames on the back, to go to the store. He never saw her or the scooter again. He told police it was worth about 15-hundred dollars.



Wilkes County deputies got a tip they could find the scooter on Damascus Church Road Monday evening. When a deputy located the scooter, he was told by a woman that lived at the house it belonged to Spencer Martin. The ID number from the scooter in the yard matched the one entered in the National Crime database after the West Jefferson theft, and the description of the scooter was the same. Martin was not there at the time, but the woman said he'd be back the next day, Tuesday. Another deputy talked with him yesterday morning, and he told them he had purchased the scooter from Samantha Combs, after she brought it to the house and said she didn't want it any more. He paid 100-dollars. West Jefferson Police list the case as still under investigation.