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Gene Kennedy ReportingEmployees at a Salt Lake City company are very pleased this afternoon, all over a truck. That truck had been stolen, missing for days, but police spotted it and tracked it down near the Gateway Mall.
Apparently there were people jumping out of the truck trying to get away. Three people were running from the police. Two of them got away, but officers caught one man and arrested him on site.
Salt Lake City police say they noticed the man inside the stolen Dodge truck, right in the area of 600 west 200 south. Police ran the license plate, confirmed it was stolen and followed it to the Gateway Mall area. That's when the suspects started jumping out of the truck, running from police.
Turns out the vehicle had been missing for a week. It's a delivery truck belonging to Davis Distribution. Someone stole it right off the company's lot off State Street.
Tom Davis, Davis Distribution: "My driver pulled it into the back of the place and left the keys in it. We thought it was pretty strange."
So Davis Distribution gets its delivery truck back and it still has the thief's bicycle. The company's owner, Tom Davis, says this has happened before. Sometimes they don't get the trucks back, but today is a good day.
