Jackson Hole Tourist Steals Pizza Delivery Car To Make Last-Minute Flight

A 21 year-old Vermont tourist stole a Pizza Hut delivery vehicle and skipped town on a last-minute flight Wednesday. Ryan Dunfee photo.

According to the Jackson Hole News & Guide, a tourist visiting Jackson Hole from Vermont stole a Pizza Hut delivery vehicle that was left running outside his hotel following a drunken argument with friends and took off for the airport, where he booked a last-minute flight back home to Boston with cash and took flight, leaving the Toyota Rav 4 in the parking lot at the airport. 

Police were alerted to the unique circumstances of the vehicle swiping, and contacted airport officials at Chicago O'Hare to attempt to apprehend the 21 year-old Vermont resident before he made his transfer to his flight home to Boston, but police ended up at the wrong gate and missed the suspect.

The vehicle theft does not qualify for grand theft auto as the suspect had no intentions of keeping the vehicle permanently, and Jackson police stated that anywhere from 6 to 12 times a year, drunk people in town will steal an unlocked taxi as its driver goes into the bar to finds their fare. The suspect would only be charged with a misdemeanor, so Jackson's prosecutor may not bother charging him and incurring the cost of extraditing him all the way back to Wyoming.

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