CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Douglas County sheriff’s deputies have captured a minimum security inmate who allegedly walked away from a conservation camp near Carson City, stole a city water truck and crashed into a car in Genoa.
The sheriff’s office says 49-year-old Martin Eric Joseph was arrested Wednesday after he ran head-on into a Subaru with the Carson City water truck he allegedly stole near Fuji Park hours earlier.
Joseph was serving a 19- to 48-month sentence for grand larceny of vehicle when he walked away from the Stewart Conservation Camp in Carson City on Tuesday.
Deputies say he also attempted to steal a vehicle on U.S. Highway 395 in northern Douglas County before the crash, and tried to steal another one after he fled the scene of the crash in Genoa before he was apprehended.
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