Crime & Safety
Vehicle Stolen From NAPA Auto Parts Parking Lot
Police Chief says NAPA employee left her keys in her unlocked truck for a moment and returned to see her vehicle being stolen.
UPDATE (2:30 p.m., June 22, 2011): The Hudson Police Department has released the initial incident report for this apparent auto theft.
According to the report, an officer arrived and went into the store to speak to the victim while other officers and deputies searched for the vehicle. St. Croix County Dispatch worked with the Washington County Sheriff's Department and both Minnesota and Wisconsin State Patrol.
According to the report, an officer spoke with the victim, who was a NAPA employee. She said she was leaving work at about 3 p.m. and unlocked her driver's side door and entered the truck, which was parked on the east side of the store. She put her keys in the ignition and realized that she left her medication in the store. She said she left her keys in the ignition and walked back into the store with her purse. When she grabbed her medication, another employee told her that someone had just stolen her truck.
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According to the report, the victim ran outside to see her truck leaving the parking lot, but could not identify the driver. She said she watched the vehicle travel east through the Walmart parking lot and onto Crest View Drive toward Carmichael Road before losing sight of the vehicle.
In an attempt to recover the victim's vehicle, a St. Croix County deputy followed a pickup truck matching the discription of victim's truck into Minnesota. The deputy said the truck he followed was not the stolen truck, according to the report.
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Hudson Police officers and St. Croix County Sheriff's deputies responded Tuesday to a vehicle theft at on Crest View Drive. Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen said the following about the incident, which remains under investigation:
"An employee was leaving work and had forgotten something inside NAPA and went back in. When she came out her 1997 Chevy pickup truck was leaving going west on Webster Street and then north on O’Keefe. She had left the keys in the vehicle. Officers from HPD and the Sheriff’s office searched for the vehicle without success. The vehicle was entered as stolen and as far as I know it has not yet been recovered."
