Photo: Bexar County Police
In today’s “this isn’t how it works” news, one man from San Antonio stole the car of a former co-worker and friend, and returned it when she confronted him – but he was still arrested.
The incident happened at the end of July this year. A woman called the police to report that her car and her had been stolen from the parking lot. While police investigated, she looked through surveillance footage taken of the parking lot, and she recognized the man who got into her car and drove away.
He was Aaron Shumake, who had worked with her for some time and whom she even counted a friend before he was fired. So she texted him and told him that she had recognized him, confronting him in a series of heated exchanges, MySanAntonio reports.
That’s when Shumake realized the gist was up, so he eventually told the woman where to find the car and the purse. Maybe he thought giving back what he had stolen meant the police would no longer go after him, but he was wrong.
He was arrested on Monday on suspicion of theft of a vehicle, and is being held on a $5,000 bond. Turns out, bringing back a car you stole doesn’t absolve you of stealing it in the first place.
This would only happen if the woman had reported that the car had been retrieved before the police caught the guy. This actually occurred earlier this month in Louisville, Kentucky, when a thief returned the car he’d stolen after 3 days.
He even placed a handwritten apology on the windshield, in which he explained that he didn’t mean to cause any inconvenience and that he was “sorry.” The owner accepted his apology and told the police she had found the car she had reported missing. She explained to the media that she liked to think the thief had merely “borrowed” it for a while.
He was Aaron Shumake, who had worked with her for some time and whom she even counted a friend before he was fired. So she texted him and told him that she had recognized him, confronting him in a series of heated exchanges, MySanAntonio reports.
That’s when Shumake realized the gist was up, so he eventually told the woman where to find the car and the purse. Maybe he thought giving back what he had stolen meant the police would no longer go after him, but he was wrong.
He was arrested on Monday on suspicion of theft of a vehicle, and is being held on a $5,000 bond. Turns out, bringing back a car you stole doesn’t absolve you of stealing it in the first place.
This would only happen if the woman had reported that the car had been retrieved before the police caught the guy. This actually occurred earlier this month in Louisville, Kentucky, when a thief returned the car he’d stolen after 3 days.
He even placed a handwritten apology on the windshield, in which he explained that he didn’t mean to cause any inconvenience and that he was “sorry.” The owner accepted his apology and told the police she had found the car she had reported missing. She explained to the media that she liked to think the thief had merely “borrowed” it for a while.
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