A SCRANTON, PENNSLYVANIA, MAN IS IN JAIL TONIGHT AFTER parking his van in front of the dealership where he bought it and set it on fire.
Times Leader
But that was just the last bit of disturbance that he committed Tuesday afternoon leading up to his arrest. John Walton, 58, brought his van into the Coccia Ford / Lincoln / Mercury dealer and said that he had a transmission problem in the van that he had bought back in April. A mechanic got into the passenger seat and asked Walton to take it for a drive so that he could diagnose the problem. When the mechanic later said that he couldn’t hear anything wrong with it, Walton “went off” on him, threatened to kill him and took the two of them on a 100-mph joy ride. The mechanic was eventually able to bail out of the van and report it to the police.
Walton then drove back to Coccia’s and set his van on fire just as the police were arriving. Read the full STORY HERE and learn why he had to be arraigned in an ambulance bay.
The Associated Press filed this video report:
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