By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
At 10:51 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, a 44-year-old Salina resident reported his red 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck missing to the Salina Police Department.
SPD Sergeant Kyle Tonniges said that the victim loaned his truck to 31-year-old Salinan Peyton Nieman on Tuesday, Nov. 7, for the day.
After she had not returned the vehicle, the victim contacted SPD on Thursday, Nov. 9, and SPD reported the truck as stolen.
On Saturday, Nov. 11, the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office contacted SPD about the stolen vehicle.
"Sedgwick County came across it," Tonniges said. "They were involved in a vehicle pursuit with it, and Peyton Nieman was the driver of that vehicle."
Tonniges said Sedgwick County reported that the vehicle crashed during this pursuit, but its initial value was $6,000.
"(The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office) arrested Peyton for fleeing and elude, among other things," Tonniges said. "We are charging her with the theft of the vehicle here, but to my knowledge, she's still down in Sedgwick County."