Monday, May 6, 2013
Car Stolen By Neighbor Abandoned In Macon County
A local man was jailed during the weekend after allegedly stealing his neighbor’s car, then abandoning it in Macon County.
The victim, age 56, reported the crime to deputies with the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department shortly before noon on Friday. She indicated that she had awakened to find her 2003 Saturn Vue had been stolen from her driveway.
She told deputies that her neighbor, twenty-nine-year-old Dennis Roger Young, had come to her home around 10:00 the previous evening. She said that he wanted her to drive him to Nashville so that he could meet a woman with whom he had become acquainted online.
The victim told deputies that Young offered to pay her $65 to transport him, but that she refused due to the late hour. She said that Young then left, but that she suspected he had taken her keys from the kitchen counter at that time.
The reporting deputy was contacted by a deputy with the Macon County Sheriff’s Department around 5:30 p.m. He said that they had located the car, abandoned on the side of a roadway.
On Saturday a Macon County deputy reported that he had spoken with a resident regarding an unwanted person. She told him that a man she had met online, named Dennis, was at her house and refused to leave.
She said that he had called her the previous night requesting a ride because he had run out of gas. She said she had then sent someone to fetch him.
Deputies were able to confirm that Dennis’ last name was Young. They determined that he had been picked up from the spot where the victim’s vehicle had been abandoned, and were able to obtain statements from various witnesses.
As a result warrants were issued from Lawrence County, and Macon County deputies then placed Young under arrest. They report that while inside the patrol car he confessed that he had stolen the car and drove it until he ran out of gasoline.
Young was booked through the Macon County Jail and was later transferred to the Lawrence County Detention Center.
