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Alert Motorist Reports Generator Theft
Published Friday, May 16, 2008 at 02:35 PM

From Nebraska State Patrol

(Lincoln, NE)- The theft of a generator from the bed of a pickup truck parked at the eastbound Milford Rest Area on Interstate 80 in Seward County was thwarted by an alert motorist.

Around 9:30 a.m., Friday, May 16, 2008, Nebraska State Patrol dispatchers received a call from a motorist, who had observed the driver of a semi load a generator into his semi truck while the owners of the pickup truck were inside the Milford Rest Area. The motorists provided a detailed description of the semi and its license plate number.

Based on the description given by the motorist, a Trooper from Headquarters Troop-Lincoln was able to stop the semi and recover the stolen generator.

The driver of the semi trailer truck 46-year-old Dennis Mack of Macomb, Michigan was arrested and lodged in the Lancaster County Jail on a charge of Theft by Unlawful Taking.


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