Man High on Meth Can't Remember Much About Stolen Truck

Nicolaus Adam Conner, 25, of 317 18th St., told West Des Moines police that he couldn’t remember much about the theft of a truck Monday because he was “high on meth.”

Police charged Conner with first-degree theft early Tuesday in connection with the theft of a 2005 F350 Ford truck from Energized Electric of Jay, OK.

West Des Moines Police Officer Ken Brock noticed that the truck idling at the Conoco station at 136 First St. did not have license plates and temporary tags were not displayed. The truck had been reported as possibly stolen in Guthrie County, where the Oklahoma company was doing some work.

According to Brock’s report, Conner said he had been told by a friend that he could find the truck in the woods behind the levee on South First Street, and he had walked there Monday to retrieve it. According to the report, Conner told police he was “high all day on meth and did not remember everything, nor everywhere that he went with the truck."

Conner said his friend’s name was Sim, Skid or Skip and that they met in the parking lot near 63rd Street and Hickman Avenue. He said he had met the man several times, but during the last meeting, he said he didn’t have a car. The man then told him where to find the truck, and that the keys were under a log near it.

“He thought he put some gas in it and drove around a while before he picked up two pasengers,” the report said.

Conner was booked and taken to the Polk County Jail.