Two auto thefts have been reported to the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office this week. One of the two vehicles has been recovered.
The latest incident was reported Sunday evening at an address on Stonegate Drive in Mountain Home.
Camille Metzger told a sheriff’s deputy she had been working in her flower bed until about 7:30. She went inside her residence and left the garage door open. About two hours later when she went to shut her garage door, she discovered her blue 2006 Chevrolet HHR was missing.
Metzger also advised her purse was in her vehicle, and the keys were in the ignition. Shortly after 11, Metzger reported to the sheriff’s office that one of her credit cards had been used at a convenience store in Gainesville shortly after 9.
Early Monday morning, the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office notified Baxter County law enforcement they had located the vehicle and had a suspect, identified as 26-year-old Milam Sweet of Summit, in custody. The report notes Sweet has an active warrant with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and has been booked into the detention center on other occasions.
A spokesperson for the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office says Sweet is being held on a $6,000 fugitive cash only bond.
In the earlier theft incident, Pamela Stauffer of Bull Shoals advised the Sheriff’s Office that her dark red 2005 Ford Escape had been taken from a Midway location.
Stauffer advised she went out to get in her vehicle Friday morning and discovered it missing. The vehicle was reportedly in the driveway with the windows up and the doors unlocked. A spare purse with a spare set of keys for the vehicle was on the passenger floorboard.
A second vehicle was parked next to Stauffer’s with the window down and the keys in the ignition and was not taken.
The Stauffer vehicle has not been reported recovered.
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