ATCHISON COUNTY—Police are investigating a reported vehicle theft in Atchison County.

Just after midnight on Sunday night officers responded to a vacant residence in the 1,000 block Forest Avenue in the city of Atchison to investigate a person who had been sitting in a parked vehicle there for over five hours, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson.

 It was determined that the 2004 Toyota pickup truck parked in a driveway there had been reported stolen in Kansas City Kansas earlier that day. The occupant in the vehicle identified as 44-year-old Timothy L. Leger, was taken into custody at the scene.&nbsp; He remains jailed on a $10,000 bond on a requested charge of theft of property, according to online jail records.

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 </figure>ATCHISON COUNTY—Police are investigating a reported vehicle theft in Atchison County.Just after midnight on Sunday night officers responded to a vacant residence in the 1,000 block Forest Avenue in the city of Atchison to investigate a person who had been sitting in a parked vehicle there for over five hours, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson. It was determined that the 2004 Toyota pickup truck parked in a driveway there had been reported stolen in Kansas City Kansas earlier that day. The occupant in the vehicle identified as 44-year-old Timothy L. Leger, was taken into custody at the scene.&nbsp; He remains jailed on a $10,000 bond on a requested charge of theft of property, according to online jail records.

Kansas suspect was sitting in parked, stolen pickup for 5-hours