A mechanic is accused of taking a Madison/Rankin County Interdiction vehicle that he was supposed to be fixing on a joyride to Franklin County over the weekend.

According to a statement written by Ian Smith, a security guard at Camp Ridge Point in Frankin County, in the early hours of Sunday he got a call of a disturbance on the grounds of the camp. When he arrived on scene, the subject allegedly causing the disturbance was gone.

Smith, who has a background in law enforcement, said the crowd told him that the subject was driving a police car with the blue lights on, drinking beer, and making sexually harassing remarks to a woman in the group.

Smith said he then discovered the suspect parked in a lot on the premises of the camp. He asked the driver what was going on, and the driver said

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