Hot cars put 'coolest guy' in jail

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Police say a domestic fight early Saturday morning preceded a brief crime spree in which two cars and an electric scooter were stolen in Casper.

Atticus Odias Bailey, 23, was taken into custody at about 7:30 a.m., after he reportedly was seen walking away from a crashed pickup near the junction of Interstate 25 and Hat Six Road, according to a police report.

At about the same time, a man who had been preparing for a hunting trip told police his pickup had vanished from outside his east Casper home while he was inside fetching his lunch and kissing his wife goodbye.

The two guns that had been packed in the pickup were found at the crash scene, police say.

Police suspect Bailey of felonies that include two counts of grand larceny and charges of burglary and aggravated burglary. The final charge is tied to the allegation that Bailey came into possession of two guns by stealing the pickup.

Along with the guns, police say, a set of keys with a Snoopy key chain was found inside the pickup. The keys came from an electric scooter that reportedly went missing earlier from a home on the 1000-block of Carriage Lane.

The scooter was found near a nearby home where a blue Ford Focus reportedly had been stolen. That car was found in a field near 24th and Nottingham, apparently having been crashed earlier into a brick wall, according to the report.

A man who was staying at the home where the car went missing told police a man had stopped by early Saturday morning, introducing himself by saying he was "Atticus Bailey, the coolest guy I know," the police report says.

The investigation on Saturday apparently proceeded in roughly the opposite direction of events earlier in the day. Police say they later interviewed a woman living in an apartment on East 15th Street. She said she had recently broken up with Bailey and that he had visited her at about 1 a.m., throwing her around the apartment and "yelling at her for breaking up with him," according to the police report.

Reporter Anthony Lane can be reached at (307) 266-0593 or at anthony.lane@casperstartribune.net.

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