(KAIR)--A vehicle, stolen Sunday while parked outside an Atchison residence, has been recovered.
According to a release from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, the 2006 Jeep Liberty was located in the southern area of rural Atchison County.
Wilson said the case remains under investigation, but charges are pending against a 34-year-old man from Buchanan County, Missouri.
He has not yet been located.
The Jeep was stolen Sunday evening in the 200 block of East Riley Street. following the theft of a riding lawnmower from the campus of Benedictine College.
Investigators believe the man rode the lawnmower to East Riley Street, where he stole the Jeep.
Wilson told MSC News it’s alleged the man approached the driver of the Jeep as she arrived at the East Riley Street address, and asked for help jump starting the mower. When she got out of the vehicle, the suspect jumped in and fled.
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