A pickup stolen from a downtown parking lot and later believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run incident in west Salina, was later located at a convenience store in another part of town.
At 5:40 p.m. Monday, witnesses observed a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 pull into the parking lot of Quality Inn and Suites, 2110 W. Crawford, and hit a legally parked 2015 Ford F150 and then leave the parking lot, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester reported this morning. Witnesses told police that the driver was a long-haired white male and that there was a passenger in the pickup. Witnesses also provided a license plate number to police.
Officers then met with the owner of the pickup on Tuesday. Charles Carroll, 81, of Salina, told police that his 2001 Dodge pickup should have been in the parking lot at 109 W. Walnut Street. He told police that his pickup was stolen sometime between noon on Monday and 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday. The pickup was valued at $5,000.
On Wednesday, an officer saw the pickup parked at Kwik Star, 100 N. Broadway. It was unoccupied and the ignition had been punched. There was damage on the front passenger side of the pickup consistent with the reports of the hit-and-run incident, Forrester reported.
Surveillance video from the convenience store showed the pickup pull into the store's parking lot at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. An unknown slender white female was observed around the pickup. She left and then returned at 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday. She grabbed some items from the pickup and then left walking southbound wearing a black back pack and carrying a green bag.