FOLLOW-UP: Yes, Couple Broke Up Over Alleged Vehicle Theft

Is there such a charge as criminal déjà vu?

If there were, West Des Moines police might be tempted to contemplate it regarding an ongoing “custody” dispute over a 2010 Jeep Wrangler.

On March 21, Officer Jason Heintz took a report with circumstances that matched almost exactly those outlined in a February report authored by Detective Maggie Countryman. In the February report, Countryman wrote that the woman hadn’t seen her fiance – or her $27,000 Jeep or $19,700 Harley Davidson motorcycle – since September.

He apparently bought the vehicle back after the initial report, then it turned up missing again earlier this month.

In Heintz’s recent report, the woman called the man, believed to be living in Waterloo, her ex-fiance.

He reportedly came to their West Des Moines residence to remove some of his belongings. He never lived at the apartment, the victim said, but his name was in the release.

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While he was there, he reportedly said that he needed to get some storage boxes out of a vehicle belonging to an unidentified friend who had driven him to West Des Moines that day.

The woman told Heintz that she retreated to her bedroom while he was there and when she emerged sometime later, her ex-fiance was gone and so was the Jeep.

She also told police the man had stolen her motorcycle, which she believed had been stored at a Waterloo bike shop. An employee at the shop reportedly told her that the suspect had already picked it up.

Westcom Dispatch entered the Jeep as stolen.

The victim said she has no idea where her former fiance lives and that the address on his driver’s license is his mother’s. She believes he will is in the Waterloo area, most likely at his mother’s home.