A 26-year-old Mountain Home man charged with stealing a truck appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division last Monday.
Kole Edward Brahm, who lists an address along Meadowbrook Drive, pled guilty to a reduced charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail.
He had originally been charged with theft of property.
Brahm is reported to have shown up on the doorstep of his former guardian’s home at about 3:30 a.m. October 1 and asked if he could stay there.
The former guardian told Brahm to leave and not come back. He is reported to have been Brahm’s guardian when Brahm was a juvenile but had lost contact with him.
Later in the morning, the man’s roommate went outside and found Brahm asleep in the truck he had driven to the residence.
Brahm was again asked to leave the property and did so on foot.
It was determined that the truck Brahm had been driving had been reported stolen from an address on South Main Street sometime between 11:30 p.m. September 30 and 4:30 a.m. the next day.
The owner said he had left the keys in the vehicle and did not know who might have taken it.
The former guardian had reported the truck being in his yard to police and the owner was advised of its location.
In a separate incident, Brahm was reported to have taken sparkplugs from a motorcycle that was parked at the Dels on Main Street.
Witnesses had seen him removing parts from the motorcycle. According to the probable cause affidavit, Brahm was confronted, jumped a fence at a nearby business and disappeared.
When he was arrested related to the stolen truck, officers reported finding sparkplugs in his pocket, along with one of the keys to the truck.
When Brahm was questioned at the Mountain Home Police Department, he was reported to have admitted to being in the truck but asked for a lawyer when the discussion turned to him taking the vehicle.
At the time of his plea, Brahm was an inmate in the Baxter County Detention Center with bond set at $5,000.
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