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| Matthew Keith Belden |
Garden City police say an employee of a convenience store noticed a customer who matched the description of the man wanted for dragging the deputy and stealing a vehicle in Clinton. He called police at 12:40 p.m. and they went to the store. The customer tried to flee but officers shot out his tires and arrested him.
Garden City police say the arrested man has “extradition warrants from multiple jurisdictions” across the country. The Cass County jail log lists his name as Matthew Keith Belden, 30. He’s being held with no bond for “identity theft,” according to the jail log.
On Tuesday morning, Springfield police investigated a car theft call on East Pythian Avenue. Officers arrested a woman who tried to escape on foot. Her companion took off in a stolen truck.
A Greene County deputy shortly afterwards found that stolen truck at the Flying J Truck Stop on West Chestnut Expressway at Interstate 44. When a deputy tried to arrest the driver, he dragged the deputy before escaping. He crashed through a fence and drove away. The deputy was not injured.
Officers located that stolen truck at the Polk-St. Clair County line between Humansville and Collins. Officers said it’s possible he then stole a pickup at a Pilot convenience store in Collins, next to Missouri 13, and drove it to Clinton, where he crashed and fled from the scene on foot, and then stole another pickup and drove northwest on Missouri 7. The pickup stolen in Clinton is the one that he was driving when he was arrested in Garden City.
