Police investigating sale of two vehicles

LEWISTOWN — Lewistown Police Department officers are investigating an auto theft complaint involving two Toyota Land Cruisers valued at $139,000, according to a release issued on Friday. A resident in Georgia purchased the two vehicles from a small car dealer in Lewistown. The Georgia resident contracted a third party to pick the vehicles up in Lewistown around Jan. 20 and deliver them to a port in Jacksonville, Fla., where the vehicles would be shipped to Puerto Rico, the report said. The third party listed the vehicles as picked up on Jan. 13 and delivered on Jan. 14, the report said, and the Georgia resident reported that their point-of-contact reported that the vehicles were never delivered. The local dealership reported that the vehicles were loaded for transport on Jan. 15 in a parking lot located on Washington Avenue, the reports said, and the independent third party shipper appeared suspicious as their account was listed as suspended for suspicious activity on the third party website and numbers for the points of within the company were all disconnected. The vehicles were entered into a national database listed as stolen and officers are conducting further investigations, the report said.

Lewistown man arrested for DUI

LEWISTOWN — Lewistown Police Department officers were monitoring traffic on East Market Street in Lewistown at 7:58 p.m. on Jan. 20, when a vehicle drew attention as it was going very slow compared to other traffic, according to a release issued on Friday. Officers followed the vehicle, which was registered to Mark Rudebeck, 67, of Lewistown, whom officers knew to have a DUI suspended license and has been the subject of multiple DUI arrests recently, the report said, and officers tried to stop the vehicle on the first block of Shaw Avenue. The vehicle continued for two blocks ignoring emergency lights and siren, the report said, and officers stopped the vehicle on the 100 block of South Spruce Street. The driver was confirmed to be Rudebeck, who was highly intoxicated and had open cans of beer in his vehicle, the report said, and Rudebeck completed field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest for DUI. Officers obtained a sample of blood at the hospital, the report said, and Rudebeck passed out while being read administrative forms and he was admitted into the hospital after the blood draw due to his level of intoxication.