(KAIR)--A reported stolen vehicle is spotted by an Atchison County Sheriff's Deputy, hours after the theft was reported, when notified that the missing pickup truck was spotted driving erratically.

According to a release from Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie, the truck was reported stolen Monday morning by a rural Effingham resident, who told the Sheriff's Office that the 2014 Ford F150 had been stolen from 5655 Edwards Road sometime between 8:20 and the time of the report, which was 9:00. Inside the vehicle were numerous items, including hand tools, binoculars, a Stihl 028 chainsaw, and around $150 in cash.

Laurie says it was nearly 5 hours later, around 1:40 Monday afternoon, that the pickup truck was reported driving erratically near U.S. Highway 73 and 234th Road. However, when a deputy located the truck near Sheridan Road, in the construction zone of Highway 73, nobody was inside. The deputy did, Laurie says, recognize 41-year-old Effingham resident , Glen Hewitt, walking towards the truck while carrying a gas can.

According to Laurie, Hewitt had already been determined to be a possible suspect at the time he was spotted, and he was taken into custody without incident on charges of theft of a motor vehicle, driving while suspended, and for the theft of items that had been inside the truck. However, some were missing, Laurie alleges, saying that the chainsaw and cash were missing at the time of the arrest.

The truck was returned to its rural Effingham owner, while Hewitt was booked into the Atchison County Jail.