NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
July 17th, 2023
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Motor Vehicle Theft Investigation
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For Immediate Release –
Carbondale – On 07-15-23 at 8:40 p.m., Automated License Plate Readers alerted City of Carbondale police officers to the presence of a 2013 Ford Taurus reported stolen from Wayne County, Illinois in the area of East Main Street and Giant City Road. Officers responded and located the vehicle parked at a business in the 1400 block of East Main Street. Officers identified the driver of the stolen vehicle as James R. Taylor, 53 years old of Granite City, Illinois. Taylor was arrested without incident. The investigation revealed that Taylor was also responsible for stealing another vehicle from the 900 block of East Main Street in Carbondale on 07-04-23. That vehicle had been recovered in Wayne County. Taylor was charged with Theft (Over $10,000) and Motor Vehicle Theft and was incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail. The investigation is active and ongoing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does!
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.