PUYALLUP, Wash. — The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who they say tried to make off with a big rig.
Deputies responded to a farm in the Puyallup area on Nov. 4, around 2:15 a.m., for reports that someone was trying to steal a semi-truck.
When they arrived, the 24-year-old suspect was inside the truck’s cab, had started the engine, and was turning the steering wheel while apparently trying to figure out how to get the massive rig moving, the sheriff’s office wrote.
According to the sheriff’s office, the suspect had been smoking something inside the cab before deputies arrived.
The sheriff’s office said drug paraphernalia was found among his belongings inside the cab.
“Despite repeated commands to get out, the suspect refused to comply. Deputies ultimately removed him from the cab, and after he continued resisting, a taser was deployed to take him into custody,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook.
The 24-year-old was arrested for attempted motor vehicle theft and resisting arrest.
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