Kimberly Kay Antrim

A motorcycle left at a business, then sold by the business owner, has resulted in theft charges being filed.

Kimberly K. Antrim, 49, 1018 Monroe St., Rochester, was arrested Thursday evening, Sept. 17, on a charge of auto theft. She is being held on $5,000 surety and $250 cash bond. The charge is a level 6 felony.

According to court documents, Taylor Kierpaul filed a stolen vehicle report on Dec. 22, 2013, with Warsaw Police Department. Kierpaul stated his 2005 Buell XB 12R motorcycle was stolen sometime between Aug. 23, 2013 and Dec. 1, 2013. The motorcycle had been parked at a business, Kim’s Cottage. The following day police entered the motorcycle in the national database as stolen.

Warsaw Police received a fax from Grandview Plaza Kansas Police Department on May 29, 2015, stating they had recovered the motorcycle. An officer with that department said Aaron Edwards reported to them a man trying to sell a motorcycle on Craig’s List for $2,800. Edwards had discovered the motorcycle was stolen when he checked Carfax. The man trying to sell the vehicle was Dale Vondell, Grandview Plaza, Kan.

Grandview Plaza Police went to Vondell’s home and observed the motorcycle in the front yard. Vondell told police he had traded a box trailer to Dale Woods for the motorcycle. Vondell gave police the receipt from Woods. It was a bill of sale from Kim’s Cottage in the amount of $200 dated Nov. 20, 2013, and signed by Antrim.

Warsaw Police Officer Jeff Ticknor spoke with Woods who said he had observed the motorcycle sitting against the wall at Kim’s Cottage and was interested in it. He came back several months later, noticing it was in the same spot. He asked the owner of the business, who is Antrim, about purchasing the motorcycle on several occasion. According to Woods, Antrim said she was going to get rid of the motorcycle since the owner had not picked it up. An agreement was reached for the sale. He then traded the motorcycle for a box trailer and provided Vondell the bill of sale he had received.

Antrim verified with police she is the one who wrote the bill of sale to Woods.

The charges were filed on June 16, 2015, in Kosciusko Superior Court 1.