A truck stolen from Ovid on Thursday was recovered Saturday, and one person arrested, but Ovid police said the individual who had the truck was not the subject of a manhunt.
“Update!,” Ovid police said about 8 p.m. Saturday, “The subject that was just arrested by the Lansing Police Department, in possession of the stolen truck from Ovid, was identified at the jail, by a fingerprint scan. He is not our guy… but, we do have the stolen truck! Thank you LPD!! However, our #2 perp, that stole the truck from MMPA, is still on the run.”
Ovid police and other agencies have been seeking a man who fled from a home on the east side of Ovid Thursday morning. The man stole a truck in Ovid the same morning and may have been seen Saturday in Dimondale with the stolen truck.
The suspect was still driving a white 2015 Chevrolet Silverado pickup stolen from the Michigan Milk Producers Association employee parking lot, the Ovid Police Department’s Facebook page said on Saturday in a post that shared photos of the truck and suspect.
Later on Saturday, the department also posted that the second suspect was in custody before revising that statement.
“Events like this, being fluid, things can and do change. One of the drawbacks to posting too soon….,” the department said in a comment on the post.
In one post on Saturday, Rousseau asked the suspect to turn himself in in comments on a Facebook update.
“If the subject is tired of running, please, give us a call,” she said.
The search for the man began Thursday morning. Shortly after 8 a.m. that day an Ovid police sergeant went to an address on Warren Road in Shiawassee County, just outside the city limit, to assist the Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office, Rousseau said in a statement Thursday evening.
Police at the address placed a person under arrest due to outstanding warrants. A second suspect, a man, fled on foot.
The man was spotted on Michigan Milk Producers Association surveillance cameras as 9:39 a.m. Thursday. At 11:15 a.m., police learned a 2015 white Chevrolet Silverado pickup was reported stolen from the MMPA employee parking lot.
On Saturday, Ovid police said the person and the truck were seen on security cameras in the Dimondale area. The man appeared to be stealing Amazon packages from a home.
Dimondale is about 40 miles from where the truck was stolen, just southwest of Lansing.
