Carson City arrests: Couple stuck after driving in muddy field jailed for having stolen vehicle
Submitted by Kelsey Penrose on Wed, 02/13/2019 - 11:08am
A 55-year-old Dayton man and a Dayton woman were arrested early Wednesday morning in the 7200 block of Highway 50 East for felony possession of a stolen vehicle, a sheriff's deputy said.
Roger Hipple and Joyce Pritchett were arrested after deputies responded to a report of someone driving recklessly through a field. The reporting party advised a man and a woman had left the vehicle and began running north.
Deputies located the truck, which was stuck and covered in mud in a field. Dispatch advised the vehicle was reported stolen out of Reno.
The vehicle was stuck and not drivable without a tow truck to remove it from the mud, the arrest report states. Deputies located footprints, one on the driver’s side with a distinct V near the heel, and on the passenger side, a small foot print with a heeled boot.
K-9 Deputy Tiko began sniffing a track of the suspects that led deputies through a field and near the Pick and Pull, where deputies could see a bush where the suspects hid for a short time.
As K-9 Deputy Tiko continued leading deputies toward Pick and Pull, a Lyon County Sheriff's Office deputy had made contact with a male and a female and both had been detained. Tiko continued tracking, which led deputies directly to where the Lyon County deputy had the pair detained.
Both Hipple and Pritchett’s boots matched the footprints they were following. Deputies advised the pair they were going to jail for being in possession of a stolen vehicle.
Pritchett admitted to being in the vehicle, but she said she did not know it was stolen. When deputies asked why she ran, she said she had an argument with Hipple for getting stuck and was trying to walk home.
Hipple did not wish to speak with the deputies, and they were transported to the Carson City Jail without incident.
Bail for Hipple: $10,000. Bail for Pritchett: $10,000.
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