Dyersburg State Gazette: Local News: Waterlogged trucks found sunk in river (08/15/08)

The muddied truck pulled from the Mississippi River on Wednesday at the W.K. Ford Boat Ramp north of the I-155 bridge was reported stolen from a Union City auto dealer.
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A man fishing near the W.K. Ford Boat Ramp on the Mississippi River bridge north of I-155 contacted Dyer County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday morning when he noticed the top of a vehicle just above the waterline.

The vehicle, a 2003 GMC pick-up truck, was found to have been stolen from a Union City auto dealership in July.

According to investigators, the thieves had stolen a vehicle from the the parking lot of the Lowe's Home Improvement Center in Dyersburg.

The perpetrators drove the truck to Union City, where they stopped at a car dealer and expressed interest in a truck. Leaving the truck stolen from Dyersburg in the Union City auto lot, the suspect or suspects then apparently ended up somewhere near the vicinity where the truck was pulled from the muck on Wednesday morning.

The rims on the truck had been replaced before it was sunk in the river.

The truck is the second vehicle pulled from the river this week.

The first was also a stolen truck -- a GMC Z71 -- and was found in the Mississippi River near Tiptonville.

The falling river level is attributed to revealing the trucks.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol and Union City Police Department are investigating the case.

Thank you for correcting the grammar in this article.

-- Posted by izzy on Tue, Aug 19, 2008, at 7:08 PM

this vehicle was located by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, not the Sheriff's Department. The DCSO was there, after the trooper who worked the scene had already interviewed the man fishing on the river bank and had Lowery's wrecker service enroute to recover the vehicle.

-- Posted by MILVET&LEO on Mon, Aug 25, 2008, at 11:18 PM