• Police imagine a person stole a backhoe and drove it to an airport in Illinois to catch a flight.
• Footage seems to indicate the person arriving with the tools and leaving it exterior the airport.
• Timothy J. Baggott was later charged with theft, authorities mentioned.

A person from southern Illinois has been charged with theft accused of stealing a backhoe and driving it 10 miles to an airport to catch a flight to the West Coast, authorities mentioned earlier this week. 

Safety digital camera footage posted on the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace Fb web page seems to indicate a person arriving on the Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois within the digging tools.

He then parks the backhoe and jumps down holding a guitar case, leaving it and calmly strolling into the airport, police mentioned. 

“Deputies have been knowledgeable {that a} backhoe was parked within the airport car parking zone, which was suspicious in nature,” authorities mentioned in an announcement. 

The proprietor of the automobile later arrived on the scene and recognized it as belonging to his firm. It had been parked at a job website close by.

“You hear of individuals both getting rides from different folks, borrowing automobiles, stealing automobiles, however a backhoe being stolen from a job website, pushed 10 miles to an airport for a person to catch a flight all the way in which to the West Coast carrying a guitar, that’s distinctive,” Sheriff Jeff Diederich mentioned, in keeping with native information outlet KFVS12.

The person who’s alleged to have stolen the backhoe, a bit of equipment weighing many tons that’s used to maneuver heavy particles, was recognized as Timothy J. Baggott of Carbondale. Baggott flew to the West Coast and was later arrested in Nevada.

Baggott was charged with theft in extra of $10,000, police mentioned. The cost is a felony, and he’s at present being held within the Elko County Jail in Nevada on a $40,000 bond, KFVS12 studies.

Fb customers appeared to help the backhoe driver, nevertheless. One person joked, “The man simply was attempting to make it on time for his flight. What is the large deal?”

“Properly, no less than he did not do something silly aside from borrowing the backhoe to go to the airport, and for security, he did put the bucket down,” one other person wrote.

It wasn’t as if he took the tools to “maintain it or be damaging, come on, give the person a break.”