North District deputies with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office recovered two separate stolen vehicles within less than two hours of each other on Sunday.
32-year old Odon Garza of Quincy was heading east on Highway 90 around 6:45 p.m. May 1st when a Flock license plate reader picked up that the U-Haul he was driving had been reported stolen out of Murfreesboro Tennessee. A deputy made a traffic stop and Garza was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle.
Around 8:15 p.m. another deputy located a white pickup truck in the area of Highway 90 and Coleman Street and a check revealed the truck was reported stolen out of Walton County.
After a traffic stop, 33-year old Danae Stiner of Tucson Arizona was taken into custody on a charge of grand theft of a motor vehicle. She admitted she didn’t know who the truck belonged to and had taken it without the owner’s permission.
Navarre Newspaper reminds our readers that Odon Garza and Danae Stiner are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law.
