By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A thief was seen driving off on the riding lawnmower he had just stolen from a west Salina home and ranch store early Saturday.
Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning that surveillance video shows a man walk up to the rear loading dock at Atwoods Home and Ranch, 400 S. Broadway Boulevard, at 4:15 a.m. Saturday. The man began taking apart a wooden crate that contained an $1,800 Troy-Bilt riding lawnmower.
The man assembled the mower and put in it oil and gasoline that he had brought with him, Forrester said. He then rode away on the mower.
Forrester said the man was described as being white and wearing a black sleeveless shirt, a hat, and possibly glasses.