A Seymour man was arrested early Sunday morning after Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputies found him sleeping in a stolen vehicle. Judy Jackson, department spokeswoman, says that at 12:42 a.m. on Sunday, deputies responded to a suspicious vehicle complaint on Gore Street in Columbus.

When Sgt. Gary Knoef arrived, he reported finding a man sleeping in the vehicle with the hood open, making it look like that there was a mechanical problem. When he ran the license plate, it came back as having been reported stolen the previous day from the Columbus East High School parking lot. Jackson says yhe vehicle itself had been reported stolen out of Seymour.

Deputies arrested the man, 30-year-old Justin Kleinpeter, on preliminary charges of Auto Theft and Receiving Stolen Property. Jackson says that he has since been released.